Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. Lobby governments on behalf of climate change. Plant trees.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 supermarkets, farming groups, food firms, and campaign groups urge government to strengthen and accelerate Environmental Land Management schemes rollout. Now is the time for bold, decisive action, if we are to create a productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future.".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Creating sustainable ski resorts builds resilience. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Retailers to face ban on sales of peat-based compost to private gardeners, with a potential ban covering professional horticulture also being discussed by government. Peatlands are the UK's largest natural carbon store as well as critical habitats for flora and fauna.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain has a high carbon footprint contributing to climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Following the General Election, the government re-introduced its Environment Bill on 30 January. The Bill, which comes 25 years after the last Environment Act, is a major piece of legislation which has the potential to put environmental considerations at the heart of Government policy and business decision-making.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Myisha Majumder.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. I think you'll see a lot more positive stories in 2024 than you've seen in 2023."

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

With COP26 fast approaching and the summit taking place on UK soil for the first time, there is finally a growing awareness that integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into business decisions can no longer be dismissed as ‘just another added cost'.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Given the scale of the challenge, a joined-up approach that embraces nature's recovery is not an optional extra, but must be central to the whole plan, to both catch carbon and to help us adapt to what are now inevitable climate change impacts.". Central to such climate resilience efforts will be managing flood risk.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The specific criteria set by the ESG framework endeavor to define environmental, social, and governance systems as sustainable. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. A spokesperson from Fertilizers Europe said “transition to green and low-carbon production cannot be done overnight and will take more than 5-7 years.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

This biodiversity crisis is unleashing equally well documented risks for human civilisation, including but not limited to diminished soil fertility, pollinator loss, increased flood and wildfire impacts, eroded food security from land and sea, rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource insecurity, and, of course, new and dangerous disease vectors.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. 400+ sessions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Without keeping carbon in the ground, there's no way that we can achieve these climate goals.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Learning about their ambitious emissions targets, not only to be net-zero but carbon negative by 2030, removing the carbon emissions they have generated since their start in 1970.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Ultimately, all the targets should support the goal set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the UK government's new Environmental Improvement Plan to reverse nature loss by 2030. But they also come against a backdrop of continued biodiversity loss on almost all fronts.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

They are model schools that are leading the way not only for academia but for governments and businesses. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Governments and businesses would be wise to take their cues from higher education" Katie said.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

” For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our climate and nature goals need to become a core part of how decisions are made on all aspects of policy - and in particular economic and fiscal policy, with a test to make sure public spending aligns with the government's net zero commitments.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, the Green Business Bureau has developed a more thorough evaluation of a company’s environmental, social, and governance credentials, to build even better businesses. With over 500 initiatives to choose from – compared to B Labs 250 – GBB raises the bar in sustainability certification.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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