Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

What we need to see now from the NI Assembly, from every department and from every political party is the bravery to step up and put the policies in place that will secure a sustainable future in which the people of Northern Ireland can thrive. The climate crisis is the biggest crisis facing humanity and our planet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Leaving the European Union has opened the door to new opportunity for reviewing historic EU rules and processes to ensure our regulations work for us," it states. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Coming from backgrounds in economics, ecology and public policy , we have spent several years focusing on carbon drawdown. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil. Science, politics, religion or just plain interesting articles: Check out The Conversation’s weekly newsletters.]. Trees in the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed. But the Review did help shape the political discourse on climate change and it established something of a new economic orthodoxy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

That is the core message from research by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) this week, which outlines a set of five key actions banks and other financial firms can take to help respond to the biodiversity and climate crises, de-risking their investments in the process.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Legislation aimed at "closing the gaps" in the UK's Climate Change Act by including the nation's international aviation, shipping and supply chains in greenhouse gas reduction targets is set to be tabled in Parliament today, pulling in support from MPs across much of the political spectrum.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been a mess for decades, proving hugely damaging to the environment and administratively onerous for farmers. It could include catchment sensitive farming schemes, integrated pest management; it could include soil health schemes and measures to promote that.".

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The amount of land taken up by the animal livestock sector is disproportionate to the benefits it delivers to the UK's diets, while also posing a major threat to the UK's climate and biodiversity goals, the report concludes. The government needs a trade policy that supports its environmental ambitions," the report notes.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

For one, the report lists a number of specific areas of government policy failure. In short, integration of climate adaptation is broadly absent from almost all the government's flagship climate policies. It's important - that is part of the process of making better policy in this country.".

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Innovation marches forward.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

These five areas include (1) adaptation, planning and resilience for health, 2) climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerabilities, 3) finance and economics, 4) mitigation actions and 5) public and political engagement. The Lancet Via EurekAlert Image via Shutterstock.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And And so, with proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury, he ploughed £3.3m

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2010, Blanchard graduated to political battles with BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a spill that sent 4.9 The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Spike Johnson. million barrels of oil into his fishing ground. More in this series.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

The UK's climate advisory body has tabled an ambitious set of policy measures to deliver net zero farming – here are the key takeaways. We have very deliberately published this report at what we see as being the moment of maximum opportunity when it comes to new policies for agriculture," Chris Stark, CEO of the CCC, tells BusinessGreen. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

These include a growing world population, unsustainable consumption, a rapidly increasing number of people living in cities, significant inequality, continuing poverty, land degradation, biodiversity loss due to land-use change, ocean pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction as well as a global pandemic.

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

They offer shade, soil retention, healthier soil, carbon sequestration, and in some cases increase property value and even offer food. According to Kathleen, “Our goal ultimately is to make the lives of people better, reduce carbon, bring back biodiversity and look at a tree as the essence of life.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The joint statement calls on the government to urgently provide more "vision, clarity, and detail" over the rollout of its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, which were envisaged as post-Brexit replacements for the EU's Common Agriculture Policy but have been beset by political wrangling and repeated ministerial changes within government.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

His speech comes just weeks before thousands of global diplomates are expected to descend on Glasgow for the crucial UN summit, which I set to be one of the largest political events ever held on British soil, and at which UK as host is under major pressure to rally countries together behind ambitious climate action.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

But for the green economy, the clearest continuity with the past few years is also the least welcome: the huge chasm of political and policy uncertainty that stretched across almost every aspect of the Brexit process will still be there tomorrow. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework promises to end the decline in nature, but can it really catalyse the transformation in business models that is required? Did the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework deliver on that promise? The answer is yes, and no.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. That could have severe geo-political consequences. We work with the government to develop policy that will enhance water quality. That is the highest number since new tougher standards were introduced in 2015. It makes up only 2.5

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

Those interpretations might be augmented with laboratory analyses of soil and rock samples, as well as data collected by aircraft and other remote sensing instruments. In some cases, the agency is also conducting radiometric surveys, which detect natural radioactive emissions from rocks and soils containing elements like thorium and uranium.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises.

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