Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climate change impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Judy Kuszewski is Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which is responsible for setting the GRI Standards. The affects of biodiversity loss are directly undermining the sustainable development agenda and, if it continues unabated, will have disastrous consequences – on the environment, the economy and people.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 Climate Summit President Sultan Ahmed al Jaber has called for a tripling of clean energy generation by 2030 and a doubling of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030, as he used his first address since being appointed to lead this year's global climate talks to promise a "COP of action". target within reach. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A year of climate conversation and action in 2021 culminated in two intense weeks of negotiations at COP26, with many feeling a renewed sense of hope and belief for the decades ahead as the summit came to a close. 2021 was an eventful year for the climate change agenda - can 2022 top it? EVs will continue to go mainstream.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

He is now one of the world's leading advocate for climate action and sustainability across the sports industry and beyond. Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. Is the sporting world doing enough on climate change? All the world's leading decision-makers are here. That's awesome.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dan Goucher, ACCR's director of climate and environment, said the group was seeking to challenge oil and gas companies that appear to be trying to "greenwash their operations". "We We read annual reports and sustainability reports from a range of companies every day," he said. And some of these claims are completely unjustified.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 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?

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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?

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. I’ve left out some large stories, because it’s unclear if they’re blips or part of a larger more permanent shift toward sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Following a lead set by firms in industries like food and fashion, Polestar has produced a product sustainability declaration. Swedish performance EV firm Polestar has declared a “moonshot goal” to create “the first truly climate neutral car by 2030.”. Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With greater scrutiny over emissions from meat and dairy companies, it is not surprising they are stepping up their game to head off any COP outcome that might hinder their operations,” Ben Lilliston, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy told DeSmog. Outspoken meat lobby groups are also on the ground in Dubai.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For these communities, climate change is existential. We can see this in Indonesia , where the government has fallen back on digital methods to compensate for underinvestment in adapting farming to climate change. Helping smallholders to adapt and respond to climate change is fundamental for climate justice.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Public concern over the decline in nature has seen a "dramatic rise" around the world over the past five years, triggering rapidly growing consumer demand for more sustainable products, particularly in high income countries, according to research commissioned by WWF. Meanwhile, Briton's have also contributed 11.5

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

Film producer and co-founder of Comic Relief, Richard Curtis, has launched a campaign to help make the UK's £3tr of pension assets more sustainable and ensure it is invested in building a better world after the coronavirus pandemic. Our pensions are powerful, and we must use that power to build a better world'.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Mattel appointed Pamela Gill-Alabaster as head of global sustainability. Who's news.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Why choose a company which works so closely with the oil industry to work at COP? The firm has also been awarded a £59,000 contract for “commissioning and delivering office space for the negotiating groups supported by the UK-funded Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA) programme at COP28”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climate change. Several Aim4C “innovation sprints” are based on regenerative agriculture, including one on “sustainable beef”.

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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. The EA report includes details of a number of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) being rolled out across the country. What is it? The project will disconnect nearly 4.3

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Agribusiness delegates attending the climate talks at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort include the head of a U.S. meat lobby group that until recently claimed the extent of man-made climate change was “unknown”, as well as influential trade groups that have lobbied against climate action, DeSmog’s analysis found.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Leading waste charity WRAP today published its final report for the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan, as it simultaneously released the first progress report for its successor initiative, Textiles 2030, which is aiming to help the fashion sector halve its greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new China-US bilateral agreement to cooperate on emissions reductions – another of the apparent consolations to be drawn from a disappointing COP – seemed to include a major commitment to the “deployment and application of technology such as CCUS and DAC”, as market intelligence firm IDTech X noted. What can be done with the captured CO2?

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climate change will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit. The money will be allocated from the UK's existing commitment of £11.6bn for international climate finance.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

World leaders, CEOs, climate advocates, scientists and sustainable development specialists from around the world converged on New York City last week, for the annual, concurrent rituals of the United Nations General Assembly and ClimateWeek. Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Fund has been set up to help food and drink companies work with universities and other research bodies to help them address sustainability challenges. COP 28 – the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference – will be hosted in Dubai this November and December.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 2, 2019

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the first day of the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25): “Coming out of an election that was seen globally as a win for climate action, Canada joins this year’s UN climate conference in a spotlight.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. Or we can choose to make environmental sustainability and resilience the lens through which we map out our recovery. I send my condolences to his family.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

For the moment, looking from the outside, the UK has slashed aid, stalled on climate, decimated its aid delivery capacity in a poorly executed merger of the FCO and DFID, stalled on climate finance, and abandoned a total government approach to climate change the day COP26 ended.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The UK organisers of the upcoming COP26 climate summit have come under fire for approving just two events that refer to fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change, in a programme of public events happening alongside the main conference. Corporate-Friendly Sideshows’.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has today announced the leadership team for the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai later this year, confirming that the CEO of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation (ADNOC), Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has been appointed President-Designate for the conference.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency. Putting the planet on a sustainable course will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land-use.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. While we rightly focus on fighting the immediate crisis of the Coronavirus, we must not lose sight of the huge challenges of climate change," he said in a statement.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

The company said its collective, co-operative buying model would allow it to buy and distribute 100 per cent renewable energy from sustainable wind and solar projects, while making it on average 4.2 the climate?emergency?and?accelerate We are facing a monumental climate change crisis entirely of our own making," she said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The climate vulnerable hotspots - which the charity defined as those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events - have suffered a 123 per cent increase in acute hunger since 2016. The report found that the countries in the climate hotspots were collectively responsible for just 0.13

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Provincial Superior of the British Jesuits, Fr Damian Howard SJ, said climate change was "the most pressing challenge the world faces", and urged other organisations to follow suit with ambitious action to cut emissions and phase out investments in fossil fuels. COP 26 in Glasgow can be the right moment," he said. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

VIDEO: Leading scientist, policy advisor and author talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about her new book on everyday climate actions, the challenges of COP negotiations, and the links between climate change and human rights.

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