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Why 5G Standalone is a key ingredient in enabling the UK's net zero transition

Business Green

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons explains the environmental benefits a 5G Standalone network could bring to traditionally carbon intensive industries We often hear people and organisations talk about net zero - from consumers and businesses to governments and NGOs. The need for scalable solutions is pressing.

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State of the nation

Envirotec Magazine

The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement.

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Farmland water “battery” storage and leak-detecting broadband cables among winners in Ofwat innovation competition

Envirotec Magazine

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Pioneering projects celebrated by foundation behind water documentary

Envirotec Magazine

Salesforce tower in downtown San Francisco: The software firm was lauded for its support for blackwater reuse in a commercial high-rise building. Brave Blue World Foundation founder Paul O’Callaghan said: “Every industry has a vanguard; the pioneers we will all come to follow. It has also achieved a 50% reduction in energy savings.

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Inflation Reduction Act Activation Guide: Climate-Smart Agriculture

EDF + Business

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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'We urgently need to prepare': Green figures react to the CCC's climate risk warning

Business Green

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.