The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Vehicle pollutants refer to the harmful substances emitted by automobiles and other vehicles during their operation. These pollutants contribute significantly to environmental degradation and pose serious health risks to both humans and ecosystems.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

On 14 October, the European Commission adopted its new EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability , described as as a first step towards a “zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment” in the context of the EU Green Deal.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

It may not happen fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but all around the world the disruption caused by increasingly cost competitive clean technologies and the growing clamour for green economic recovery packages demonstrate how net zero emission economies could emerge over the next three to four decades.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Defra confirms new legal duty to be placed on water companies to reduce nutrient pollution by 2030, as it looks to ease planning barriers for new housing projects. The legal requirement will be introduced via a government amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

For example, in 2005, the "Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancement of carbon stocks" (REDD+) system was created as a social and biodiversity safeguard to make sure carbon removal efforts didn’t harm biodiversity and that its benefits were given to local communities. Pull Quote. Social Justice.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a world grappling with unprecedented environmental challenges, cutting-edge technology is reshaping the way we understand and safeguard our planet. Drone Surveying Photonics plays a pivotal role in drone surveying, where InGaAs image sensors and modules are key enabling technology.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey launch Frontier Fund to bring down costs of carbon removal technologies that scientists acknowledge will be critical to meeting climate goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The event is co-chaired by Angelika Brandt of Germany, a Southern Ocean / Antarctica biodiversity expert, and Elva Escobar Briones of Mexico, a deep sea biodiversity expert. Reduce and remove top-priority forms of pollution (e.g., To prevent recurrence, reduce sources or emission of pollutants (e.g.,

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, and partners announced the Carbon Mapper Accelerator program, to accelerate the deployment of emerging remote sensing technologies needed to effectively pinpoint, quantify, and diagnose sources of high-emission methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) globally.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Which digital technologies are being harnessed to drive greater sustainability in day-to-day operations? So far, the greatest successes have been in the use of digital technologies to drive efficiencies at a project level – primarily because there is existing information and understanding of the assets.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Electric vehicle uptake will not be enough There needs to be a renewed push for public, active and shared transport that prioritises affordability and accessibility, along with a carefully designed scrappage scheme to get the most polluting vehicles off the road.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Writing in the journal Building and Environment , the group said that, while the concept is relatively new, it seems to open other potential benefits, in relation to things like biodiversity. Supported by an investment from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the three-year £2.6

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

The the 15th annual Green Economics Conference is titled " Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss " will take place on the zoom platform. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Promoting sustainable agriculture The agricultural sector is a contributor to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. This includes, promoting clean technologies, renewable materials, and eco-friendly products/services.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

No doubt the answer lies in a combination of investor pressure, technological innovation, consumption shifts, governmental pressure, new circular business models that reward resource efficiency — and more than a little grit and determination. What will it take for companies to dramatically step up their ambition and actions? That’s changing.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

But a loose patchwork of weakly enforced rules governing international waters have meant the majority of the planet's oceans are highly susceptible to exploitation whether through over-fishing, acidification and pollution, or emerging threats such as deep water mining. per cent of international waters have protected status, with just 0.8

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The study brought together researchers from Utrecht University, Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. The water boundary had been considered to be within the safe zone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It came as the EA yesterday published a new report it said set out the benefits of environmental regulations in protecting air, water and land from harmful pollution. The report, which covers data from regulatory activities in 2019, claims to demonstrate improving trends in environmental compliance, pollution incidents, crime and emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Streets of the Future insight outlines a range of opportunities for communities, including: Smart technology helping people to use less energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. In doing so, cities would be better equipped to manage the many impacts of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

Defra promises 'robust, evidence led process' to set in statute air, water, waste and biodiversity targets by the end of October 2022. And, the government said it would explore targets to restore and create wildlife-rich habitats in protected sites with a view to increasing species populations and improving marine biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

However, integrating an understanding of the links between biodiversity loss and financial risk into business practices and policymaking remains a substantial challenge. Looking ahead to COP26, this framework is a key tool for progressing the finance agenda to tackle the biodiversity and climate crisis," Basirov concluded.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE. Smog Armor. Ginkgo Sustainability Inc. EcoEnclose.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, last week’s Food Systems Summit illustrated the rift between agribusiness giants and smaller food producers about how to transform the food system to achieve these cuts and address hunger, malnutrition and biodiversity loss. This data typically isn’t owned by farmers.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Isle’s technology consultant Sylvia Schuster explains why she believes managing the effects of climate change requires urban transformation. Biodiversity is also at risk along with public health and the psychological wellbeing of those affected by extreme weather events. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The new fund will provide grants of between £150,000 and £300,000 to innovative projects in the textiles, food, household products, technology, and services sectors that challenge the "outdated" 'take, make, dispose' business model, it said.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 22, 2023

The applied technologies should not significantly harm the environment (Do No Significant Harm principle). It must be ensured that negative impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, including negative impacts on (or pollution affecting) air, water or soil quality, are addressed through mitigation policies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 26, 2022

At the COP15 Biodiversity Summit which ended last week, much focus was on the depletion of natural capital, the world's stock of natural assets. Corporate measures could also go some way to reversing the loss of biodiversity and address about 60 per cent of chemical and plastic pollution.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Although emissions are rising more slowly than they have in previous years, humanity has lost precious time to drive down climate pollution, and even with the most ambitious policies, there is now only a 38 percent chance that the world will stave off a 1.5-degree There is no time to lose, the report authors said.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The cultivation of biomass can lead to alterations in land use, occasionally resulting in the depletion of valuable ecosystems, including forests and grasslands, which in turn jeopardizes biodiversity. Ensuring that combustion technologies adhere to stringent emission standards is crucial to minimizing such detrimental impacts.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Industrial technology giant and university team up to advance research and development of technologies and nature-based solutions required to reach climate goals. There is greater urgency than ever before to tackle global pollution, of which CO2 is one of the biggest sources," said Ryan.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

From 2030 onwards, the IEA sees technologies that don’t yet work at scale doing much of the heavy lifting. Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. But the vision it presents governments is fantastic in another sense of the word, too.

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