Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5 The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. The report does highlight a few bright spots in the climate landscape.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. ” “By harnessing the power of nature alongside our traditional flood defences, we can not only help keep communities safer, but also create wildlife havens and tackle the climate emergency.” What is it?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Conference of the Parties (COP).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

IBM, also a sponsor, works with pesticide and fertiliser companies to promote “carbon farming” – a carbon offsetting technique that generates carbon credits for storing carbon in soils. Many climate groups believe such practices will provide an excuse for big companies to continue polluting. Conflict of interest.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. 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. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Climate Change Committee delivers its verdict on COP26, but will the UK government heed its advice for the coming 'crucial' year ahead? Globally, the UK must continue to encourage stronger action on climate and insist on rapid emissions reductions and stronger adaptation through all diplomatic channels.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. We can’t solve a problem within the system that caused it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

For this reason, it’s in our best interest to lower CH4 emissions to tackle climate change. Carbon offset example: The Climate Trut’s Anaerobic Digester. Reducing and reversing this excessive deforestation is essential for avoiding the consequential effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

With the completion of our Silvanet architecture and device designs, we are on track to achieve our mission of digitizing forests, and combatting wildfires and climate change, by helping to protect the natural world.” ” The Dryad Silvanet solar-powered mesh gateway. Dryad previously received seed funding of €1.8m

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

You might well think the UK's green and pleasant land is a perfect ally in tackling climate change, able to soak carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it as carbon in the leaves, trunks and roots of our much-loved flora and in the soils beneath.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Canada last month almost 200 countries at COP 15 agreed a set of landmark pledges that will resonate not just through 2023, but to the end of the decade and beyond to the middle of the 21st century. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

We have a necessary, and understandable delay to the next climate COP, which was due to take place in November, in Glasgow. And it must still be the place where world leaders ramp up individual and collective climate ambition and action to fulfil the aim of Paris, to keep warming to 1.5 But it will still happen.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. It was social media kryptonite.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Robert Cardillo , Planet Federal’s Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board, was joined by Christine Urbanowicz , Senior Spatial Geospatial Data Scientist, USAID , Kathleen White , Program Director of Climate Change, DoD OSD ODASD (E&ER), U.S. We are in the midst of a climate crisis. “I’m Planet’s Perspective.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It means that with just weeks to go until the G20 Summit in Italy and then COP26 in Glasgow, the latter of which in particular promises to be among the most important global summits ever held on British soil, the need for a 'decade of action' is more acute than ever, and there is less than a decade to deliver it.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. The GCP was not a total loss, however.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I heard someone call COP26 the "business COP" I couldn't find any official reference of that sort, but I'm inclined to agree. Translation: The climate crisis is starting to hit companies where it counts. Over the weekend, Saturday was 'Nature Day' at COP. At COP26, as the weather rains, business reigns. The birds and the trees.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. Not only is climate change threatening food security worldwide; more than one-third of global emissions come from food and farming. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UK monarch hits out at those who 'talk but don't do' when it comes to climate change, amid reports several world leaders will not be attending the Glasgow Summit. Extraordinary isn't it - I've been hearing all about COP," the Queen appears to say. Still don't know who is coming. We only know about people who are not coming.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

OK, so we’re talking about a definite break with the current system – and as I’ve said before many times on this blog, system change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us; and if we wait until nature does it, it won’t be pretty. When Lowimpact started off in 2001, it was much more difficult to engage people.

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