Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A wave of bankruptcies could sweep across the UK's farming industry unless the government helps farmers shift their production methods to enable a biodiverse and low-carbon future, according to a report published today by the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN).

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

With all the right pieces in place - tech prices plummeting, consumers snapping up money-saving electric cars, solar panels, and home appliances, and policy and regulation sending solid market signals - money is flowing. Our markets are shifting - and fast - towards a clean energy economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, ambassador for the Alliance, said it was vital that food and diets are considered as part of both the health and climate policy agendas. COVID-19, painful though it is, could pale into insignificance compared to the turbulence created by climate change and the collapse in biodiversity," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Ending deforestation and planting more trees needs to be front and centre of post-Covid climate policy. But we know that together these two areas of land hold a large proportion of the world's biodiversity of plant and animal species. By protecting the environment, wildlife and biodiverse habitats we can help prevent the next pandemic.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

"It's not a question of 'Maybe we'll need negative emissions technologies or maybe we can prevent more CO2 from going into the air’" Erin Burns, a senior policy advisor at the think tank Third Way, told Business Insider. "We We are at a point where we need all of those things."

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The government uses this number as one of several key metrics to evaluate the costs and benefits of policies that affect greenhouse gas emissions, like fuel economy standards for vehicles or oil and gas leasing plans. government, underscoring the importance of keeping policy values in line with the scientific frontier.”

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

And, of course, fungi threaten humans, too — not just by decimating the biodiversity of the world around us, but also by infiltrating our bodies and causing new illnesses. They were in medicine, ecology, agriculture, and a few others. Fungi are now coming for the Cavendish, the banana we bred to replace the bananas we lost.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Pacala’s team included approaches that in their judgment would not adversely affect food availability nor biodiversity but could utilize current or near-term technology and cost less than or equal to $100/tCO 2. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. GtCO 2 per year. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine. More biodiversity is in the earth beneath our feet than in all above ground ecosystems combined.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Specialty plastics and packaging is a significant part of Dow's business, from packaging for food and medicine, wire and cable materials, to specialised films and adhesives for industrial applications, we serve much of the world with the materials it needs. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 3, 2021

The biodiversity of plants and their effect on agriculture, climate moderation, and modern medicine ignited a new passion that I hadn’t felt before. To protect vulnerable communities, a protective policy needs to be implemented nationwide to protect from extreme swings in electricity prices due to the market dynamics.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine. More biodiversity is in the earth beneath our feet than in all above ground ecosystems combined.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. He/Him) Energy Policy Manager, Maryland Energy Administration Baltimore, MD, USA New York Department of Education (‘17).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table. For HP Inc.,

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is here,” said Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration during a briefing on the report. Hotter temperatures have already limited harvests of traditional foods and medicine used by many indigenous nations. Its cities have gobbled up more than 1.3

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CleanTechnica

MAY 22, 2024

Yet you may not think a whole lot about biodiversity. Readers of this publication are definitely interested in the intersection of technology and decarbonization.

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