Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

New research reveals that seafood companies that have been certified as eco-friendly can increase in market value by an average of $23 million 20 days after certification. The MSC blue tick label means that a company sells seafood that has been handled, processed, and packaged by organisations that have a Chain of Custody certificate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

These test results are breathtaking,” said EWG’s senior vice president for government affairs. Freshwater fish are an important source of protein for many people, and PFAS contamination threatens those who cannot afford to purchase commercial seafood. Its approach is used to test seafood samples, as well as processed foods.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Today’s common fishing practices are unsustainable and with the number of seafood eaters growing across the world, our seafood supply is readily depleting. This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Conservation charity becomes co-claimant in legal action against the government over alleged failures in plan to tackle sewage overflows. The Marine Conservation Society has today announced it is backing legal action against the government over its failure to do more to tackle sewage spills into English waters.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

This contamination poses a risk to human health as well, as we consume these seafood sources. Governments worldwide are increasingly implementing bans on single-use plastics, a crucial step in reducing plastic waste generation. Conclusion The plastic pollution problem is daunting, but it’s not insurmountable.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The report, produced by the Expert Group of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy – a group of 14 heads of state and government – provides the first ever comprehensive, quantitative analysis into the role that ocean-based solutions can play in the fight against climate change. GtCO2e each year by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2020

Only last week the UK government's climate advisors, the Committee on Climate Change , suggested the UK will need to cut meat and dairy consumption by a fifth if the country is to meet its net zero emissions targets, pointing out that the land used for livestock at the moment will be needed for reforestation and other carbon-storing schemes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Marine Stewardship Council warns that a growing population and increased demand for seafood are set to place even greater pressure on the world's ravaged fish stocks. It calculates that, if global fisheries were better managed, 16 million tonnes more seafood could be harvested every year.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

fisheries adapt to climate impacts; catalyzing the growth of a "new sustainable seafood industry," including aquaculture, mariculture and plant- and cell-based seafood alternatives. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. It’s not just a wish list.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Government partnerships are nothing new, but they’re usually binary: Government agencies work with nonprofits or with businesses or gather feedback separately from each. marine areas, overturning the successful fisheries management system, harming coastal communities and cutting off consumer access to sustainable local seafood.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2022

The independent survey of attitudes to seafood and ocean health was carried out by GlobeScan in 23 countries, involving 25,000 people. Moreover, 77 per cent of people from the UK surveyed believe people should eat seafood from sustainable sources, an increase of five percentage points from two years ago.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

The environmental group has criticised the Japanese government in recent months , and detailed challenges with the ocean-dumping plan as it stands, including problems with the treatment system. These were presented in an October 2020 report , Stemming the Tide 2020: The reality of the Fukushima radioactive water crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

With the UK government poised to begin further talks with the EU this week to discuss shared stocks between Britain and Europe, the conservation group urged negotiators to follow the best available science when setting catch limits.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Ireland's coalition government has this week reached an agreement on a new climate bill that would put a target to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 on a legal footing and establish ambitious new near term emissions goals for 2030. Ireland finalises plan for new climate bill. Reports: Japan to set more ambitious 2030 target.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The company issued a public apology and paid $500 million to the Vietnamese government. A lot of people are still on the run because the Vietnamese government is still trying to arrest them,” Bui said. In 2022, Vietnam’s seafood exports were valued at 11 billion USD. Twenty-four people remain in prison. “A

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Global seafood giant Thai Union yesterday announced a pioneering commitment to reach full transparency across its tuna supply chains by 2025, as activists and corporations seek to address the impact of illegal fishing on ocean ecosystems.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Some of the 13 startups include Born Maverick, a company developing seaweed-based alternatives to scallops and seafood, Little Loop which allows people to rent children’s clothes for a subscription fee, and Zelemiq, a wearable technology helping to tackle the global obesity crisis through tracking blood sugars.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

The seafood giant explains how partnerships are at the heart of its Sustainable Development Goal strategy. It's a recognition that achieving the SDGs is so huge and all-encompassing that no one company, no one government and no single NGO can do it by themselves," she argues. Of course, successful partnering is easier said than done.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Following government healthy eating guidelines could cut an individual's carbon emissions by almost a third, a new study has found. Analysing nine of the government guidelines, experts found someone who followed all of them would reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by almost a third compared to someone who followed just two.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Enjoy Oysters and other SF Classics at Betty Lou’s Seafood and Grill. will bring you to Betty Lou’s Seafood and Grill. More than 75 years later, their long struggle demanding justice for this unprecedented government-run system of wartime sexual enslavement is not over. Directions to next destination. 318 Columbus Ave.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

The UK government has finally published its long-awaited response to the independent National Food Strategy. However, the government’s response has largely ignored this scientific advice by failing to propose the specific policies needed to make sustainable diets easy and affordable. The strategy falls short on a number of fronts.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Social Market Foundation warns lack of action from government could see UK lose out to international competitors as demand for alternative meats accelerates. Government must do more to catalyse a consumer-led transition in dietary behaviours.". The government has pointed to alternative proteins as an archetypal Brexit opportunity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The remaining 60 per cent of profits will go directly to Pacific Island governments. "We We believe more retailers will follow suit and commit to transparency within their seafood supply chains, while also seeing the value of working directly with the people and communities impacted most.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Around two-thirds of nature-dependent trade each year - around $5tr - came from these non-renewable resources on average, while the remainder related to trade in potentially renewable resources largely derived from agricultural commodities such as forestry, crops, meat, seafood, and cotton, the think tank found.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. Fishermen have showed up to local government meetings to complain. Always in Cameron,” Dyson said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Private PR companies seeking to control access to information and public debate on behalf of the government about projects as consequential as the MBSD is dangerous — and is part of a larger concerning trend. Ironically, had I been invited, I wouldn’t have been driven to write this report.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You have to be engaged in aquaculture, you have to be successful in aquaculture, to be successful in seafood. “By producing an increasing amount of seafood sustainably as farmers, the industry can help relieve pressure on wild stocks that might currently be overfished commercially.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

The environmental group has criticised the Japanese government in recent months, and detailed challenges with the ocean-dumping plan as it stands, including problems with the treatment system. These were presented in an October 2020 report, Stemming the Tide 2020: The reality of the Fukushima radioactive water crisis.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The FAIRR investor network and the Good Food Institute (GFI) have launched two new reporting frameworks for alternative meat, seafood, dairy, and egg companies to use when revealing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts to would-be investors and others.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

Billy Nungesser and three of the state’s parish governments, have come out against the project. In that mix are comments submitted by the Marine Mammal Commission, an independent government agency charged by the Marine Mammal Protection Act to further the conservation of marine mammals and their environment.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

In Part 2 we’ll talk more about the life of small fishing boat skippers, and in Part 3 we’ll look at how government quotas benefit super-trawlers and disadvantage the small boats. There’s a government definition – ten metres and under. Today I’m talking with Caroline Bennett of Sole of Discretion.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2021

We’re talking about how government quotas benefit super-trawlers and disadvantage the small boats. So government quotas for small fishing boats. When the quota system was introduced, small vessels got almost nothing (4%), because the government had no record of what they’d historically caught. And the UK government?

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 9, 2023

More than 1,000 people participated in the roadmap’s creation, including strong representation from the state’s marine and fisheries, economic development, environmental, labor, municipal government, higher education, and other interests. Support Maine’s Vital and Thriving Seafood Industries and Coastal Communities.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2024

Structural change through policies and governance is necessary to solve the climate crisis at the speed and scale required. As more people choose to substitute white meat or seafood for red meat, switch to electrical vehicles and heat pumps, take public transportation, or shop for second-hand goods, our choices increasingly become a new norm.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Research from the Changing Markets Foundation, examined voluntary certification schemes for seafood, textiles and palm oil. It is also important to note that the report is explicit in indicating that such certification schemes do not take the place of government oversight, regulation and legislation.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

SDG17 calls on businesses and governments to actively partner in order to deliver sustainable development goals, but doing so is easier said than done. Successful partnerships can be informal or formal, says Darian McBain, executive advisor on Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at seafood company Thai Union.

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