Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is to present advice to the government on supporting a resilient, low carbon economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis as part of its annual assessment of the UK's progress towards its 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions goal this summer.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The government has been accused of neglecting soil health in England and thereby potentially heightening the risks of flood, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss, after a freedom of information request revealed it spends just a fraction of its environmental monitoring budget on enhancing and protecting soils. With an estimated 2.2

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When it comes to grid resilience, coupling data on extreme weather conditions with the concept of asset fragility is the clearest way to quantify long-term utility asset risks from extreme weather events, writes Rahul Dubey of Rhizome. True resilience is understood, valued, and built from the ground up. billion in damage done.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Governments around the world must step up their preparations for a minimum sea level rise of 1 metre this century and be planning for up to 3 metres, according to a report released by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in November. Flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in October 2016.

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Sea level rise Government Medicine Resilience 162

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Defra seeking applications for funding from projects that can enhance tree planting stocks, boost woodland resilience, and create new forestry markets The government has this week announced it is seeking applications for funding from two innovation funds designed to boost the sustainability and resilience of the forestry sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Blistering heatwaves and devastating flood events are set to take an ever greater toll on the UK's mental and physical health, according to the Climate Coalition. million within just 17 years unless action is taken to bolster climatre resilience, the report estimates. At present around 1.8

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Ahead of next week's Net Zero Nature Summit, Sarah McDonald, vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare, reveals how the company is collaborating on a call to action to ensure climate and health strategies are better aligned. What's already happening and what's missing?

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Global warming has driven an influx of extreme weather events and prompted city governments worldwide to seek sustainable solutions for greater climate resilience and public safety measures. Perhaps even more alarming, […].

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Sustainability Global warming Resilience Health 145

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. The regrowth then provides homes for a variety of insects and birds, the RSPB said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

The paper, which urges government to give local authorities the powers, resources and funding they need to deliver net zero, sets out ADEPT’s position that national targets will only be met through climate change action at the local level. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Recently, I was asked to participate in a webinar discussion about environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in the wake of COVID-19, and I had to ask myself, "Is the work we’re doing at SASB completely irrelevant or more relevant than ever?" . How can companies adapt to ensure business continuity in such an uncertain environment?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

UK government announces 45 countries have signed up to new coalition designed to accelerate efforts to expand nature based solutions to the climate crisis ?. We need to put people, nature and climate at the core of our food systems.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging time by sustainability professionals representing business, government, NGOs and academia. Over 700 experts were surveyed online across 71 countries in May.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The remaining 60 per cent of profits will go directly to Pacific Island governments. "We This approach maximises benefits for our people, who will see investments in climate resilience, additional revenues for associated businesses, and the creation of new on-shore and on-water job opportunities.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UK flood defence plans once again called into question, as Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee calls for clear targets and long-term budget for resilience. If the government will not set well-defined targets for flood resilience, it will waste millions of pounds playing catch-up. "In

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Hundreds of top regional leaders from around the world have today urged governments to place the Paris Agreement climate targets and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the core of economic recovery measures, claiming "business as usual is no longer an appropriate response" to the escalating coronavirus crisis.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Wide-ranging report warns UK's 'robust historic resilience' under threat from climate change and growing risk of unanticipated shocks. The government-appointed Commission has today published a new framework setting out how the country's infrastructure can better "resist, absorb and recover from shocks".

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

The reception, now in its 16th year, was hosted by Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who is chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee, which advises UK Government on climate risks and opportunities. We need to take action now and design in resilience from today. As a sector we have an opportunity to do things differently.

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Building Energy Monitoring Climate change Resilience Energy Monitor 217

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million households – lacking easy access to nature (and the huge health and wellbeing benefits that come from it), the voluntary organisations coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has warmly welcomed new Green infrastructure Standards from Natural England (announced on 31 January). With one in three people – around 9.4

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Business Secretary Alok Sharma also calls for 'global green recovery' as top government figures offer further signs the green economy could be set to benefit in economic stimulus plans. We're reminded on #WorldEnvironmentDay that nobody can do this alone. 4/4 pic.twitter.com/lhQGTURjCh. "I Stop doing this, because it's killing us," she said.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

The government has temporarily relaxed laws around establishing car-free streets in England, in a move that should free up space for social distancing and allow essential workers to walk and cycle to work more safely while further improving air quality. mile road segment to motor vehicles.

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Government Transportation Resilience Health 94

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise. And so too is mitigation.

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Resilience Sea level rise Policy Soil 52

Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

A group of major British business leaders, including top executives from Iceland, Ben & Jerry's, and The Body Shop, have today called on the government to embrace a green recovery as it prepares to take tentative steps to ease the nationwide lock-down. If nature is protected, we are protected.

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Resilience Climate change Government Health 85

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys. Looking ahead, Shanghai Electric Energy Storage has plans to launch a Series B financing campaign in 2024.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Resilience 69

Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. a) and RCP8.5 (b).”

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Climate change Health Resilience Soil 52

EDF + Business

APRIL 22, 2020

Even before the tragic illness, heartbreaking loss of life and growing financial hardship of the COVID-19 crisis, the social contract between government, business and society was stretched to its limit. In our pre-pandemic world, long-held views about the roles and responsibilities of government and business were already in question.

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Resilience Carbon Climate change Health 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The UK government this weekend moved to strengthen its climate resilience strategy, having previously seen its adaptation efforts slammed as being "ramshackle" and akin to Dad's Army. We must act now to ensure our communities and economies are resilient to the climate shocks which are coming," she said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It's why within our sector we're committed to working with farmers, customers, industry leadership groups and government to create a sustainable future for years to come.". McCain is one of a number of leading food brands to step up investment in enhancing the climate resilience of their supply chains.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The government's climate advisors will today publish a major new analysis of the UK's climate adaptation investment priorities, which argues that essential climate resilience measures remain badly underfunded by both government and businesses. That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming."

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, As the Government of Canada develops and deploys its response to the unprecedented impact COVID-19 is having on our health and economy, we offer your government our support, assistance and advice to ensure that stimulus and recovery efforts help build a better, more resilient Canada.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The UK government is making available £4.5 There will also be £960 million for a Green Industries Growth Accelerator “to support clean energy manufacturing”, and £520 million for life sciences manufacturing “to build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s world-leading research and development.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

The two candidates to become the next Prime Minister may be sending mixed signals on their support for both the levelling up agenda and nature protection, but that has not stopped the government this week launching a new initiative to try and enhance access to nature in some of the UK's most deprived communities.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But 12 years later, as governments plot their path out of the coronavirus crisis, the coalition of groups demanding an explicitly green recovery strategy has proved to be broader, deeper, and armed with compelling polling and encouraging data.

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