Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

County administrative boards and the Swedish Forest Agency use species sightings reported by the public to make various environmental decisions. The study is based on interviews with officials around Sweden who use citizen’s sightings to make decisions on land and water issues.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This October, we are pleased to not only continue this tradition, but also celebrate three years of this program and contract , a unique public-private partnership to leverage commercial Earth observation technologies to advance the public purpose of Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative. million sq.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

In April, Bloomberg reported that "a third of endemic species on land and half in the sea will become extinct if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in," and WWF's 2020 Living Planet Index , which measures the population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles, found a 68 percent decline in animal biodiversity since 1970.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

The partnership says the initiative will improve the speed, effectiveness and survival rate of plants, to help mitigate climate change-related land and forestry challenges affecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The group will be working in partnership with British climate tech firm A Healthier Earth on the ForestFactory concept.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in China. . Now, it's wandering farther into uncharted territory. Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A group of experts from academic, governmental and international organisations have identified five large-scale ‘megatrends’ affecting forests and forest communities, published on 1 December in Nature Plants. billion people live within 5km of a forest, and millions rely on them for their livelihoods, especially in poorer countries.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2020

Cranberries are more than just an American Thanksgiving Day tradition; they also are a tradition of the American land. Because the plant is actually meant to grow in the natural environment, many growing and harvesting practices already help the surrounding land and could be considered sustainable, under normal conditions. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The future of meat is a critical issue, so I thought I’d summarize some of the reaction. When we consider the best way forward, we have to think about what economists call an opportunity cost: the price we pay for not putting that land to different use. That’s an extraordinary amount of land. million project. Two-thirds.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This explosive rate of forest loss greatly exceeds the country’s own target established in its 2010 National Policy on Climate Change, where a maximum of 3,900 km² of deforestation was projected for 2020. Every square mile of forest loss pushes the Amazon and the global climate closer to an irreversible tipping point.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Expanding the UK’s trees, woodlands and forests will play an important role in realising the Government’s ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The ecology and functioning of these woodlands will be integrated to molecular data allowing us to understand the capacity of UK forests to adapt to stress.’.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By supporting the development of solar+storage, MEC is increasing its local generation resources that can help isolate the co-op from any transmission issues and delays and avoid unstable price points in the generation market. “We forests in one year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Beef rightly gets attention when we think of the foods destroying South America’s forests, but the second-most important driver of deforestation is less known to people outside of food and agriculture. The secret life of soy. Fri, 05/21/2021 - 00:12. Perhaps that’s because it’s not something that ends up on our plate every meal — soy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Plans by Southern Water to build a £600 million desalination plant in the New Forest have come under fire from conservationists and other local groups. The proposed plant is to be built on land near the utility’s wastewater treatment works at Ashlett Creek, near Fawley in Hampshire.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Examples of this dynamic include projects such as a hydroelectric plant in Guatemala ( later linked to egregious human rights abuse ) and forest preservation projects in Brazil ; both offered Western companies opportunities to gain carbon offset credits, but the reality of their impact from a human rights standpoint was less understood. .

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

New guide on how to ensure forest projects deliver promised benefits comes amidst soaring carbon offset prices and fresh calls for improved governance of natural capital projects. This diagnostic tool is a big step forward," said Robin Chazdon, Professor of Tropical Forest Restoration at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

COP26 was a hub for political and financial commitments aimed at protecting and restoring nature, especially forests. The Glasgow Climate Pact provided welcome recognition for the role of forests in climate change mitigation and reducing vulnerability. But the most promising outcomes came from outside the official negotiations.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Landscape engagement initiatives provide a crucial piece of the puzzle for businesses looking to address their impact on our forests, writes the Consumer Goods Forum's Didier Bergeret. Forests are crucial to providing food, air, water and maintaining life on Earth.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization. government.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Unilever has committed to protect and regenerate a million and a half hectares of land, forests, and oceans by 2030, as part of a sweeping new strategy named Positive Beauty. The firm is also committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions across its value chain by 2039 and delivering a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Thousands of acres of forest, maintained to offset greenhouse gas emissions, might be going up in smoke. Intersection between the Riverside/Beachie Creek/Lionshead fire and the Warm Springs forest offset project (ACR260). Before the fires, the state of California had issued more than 2.6 Courtesy of CarbonPlan.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Embargoes imposed by Brazil's environment agency are intended to penalise landowners and allow illegally cleared forest areas to recover. JBS and other major Brazilian meat producers have made commitments not to buy cattle from protected land. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Recent research by Leaders Arena ESG Advisory Services finds that institutional investors managing more than $7 trillion in equity assets consider biodiversity issues to some extent, including Allianz Global Investors, BNP Paribas Asset Management and California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CalPERS.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To tackle this, we urgently need a coherent plan for nature’s recovery on land and at sea. Defra has more EU retained law than any other Government department, with 570 retained laws on environmental issues. Even with protections like the Habitats Regulations in place, only 3% of land can reliably be said to be protected for nature.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The latter requires going beyond forests to end all native vegetation conversion, which is notably absent in the trader's work. Missing action on the conversion of other ecosystems: Conversion of native ecosystems for commodity production has long moved beyond the world's forests. It limits action to forests and peatlands for palm oil.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Dr Mike Morecroft, Climate Change expert at Natural England, has been looking at how we evaluate and measure success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems, and is the lead author on a recent review into the issue, published in the journal Science on 13 December. The full paper is available to view online here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2021

One company doing this is Mondi , a global leader in packaging and paper and this year one of only 14 companies on CDP's prestigious ‘Triple A List' for tackling climate change, protecting forests and water security. The company works across the value chain, from growing trees to manufacturing pulp and producing packaging and paper.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The $10m grant, which will fund two emerging programs focused on conservation in the Appalachian Mountains, also highlights the importance of protecting sustainably managed working forests - particularly those owned by smaller companies or families. Big value in smaller forests. Amazon is the largest funder of the two programs.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. Until consistent, high-quality standards are established for agricultural soil carbon credits, companies should pursue other opportunities today to reduce agricultural and land-based emissions at the scale and pace needed to meet ambitious climate goals. Yes, but only in certain situations.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. Despite this reliance, human behavior continues to push species into extinction, reduce the world’s acreage of forests and deplete the water supply. Without question, nature is an even bigger issue than climate change. Richard Mattison.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Australian-based environmental project developer GreenCollar decided to tackle one problem by creating a new type of credit to address an environmental issue very close to its country’s heart: the degradation of the Great Barrier Reef. Those sales help fund improved land management practices.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investment and insurance giant teams up with green groups to study climate and biodiversity impacts on 600 hectares of AXA-owned forest in France. The initiative follows AXA's pledge last year to invest €1.5bn globally into sustainable forest management projects.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 15, 2020

This becomes a challenge considering the competing uses for land around the world. But there is also enormous potential for managed forests to sequester a great deal of carbon. Professor Ganguly’s research involves wood products and managed forest – with a focus on sustainable forestry.

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GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

While diving into seafood issues in preparation for VERGE Food , however, I’ve come across a few better approaches I’d consider supporting. Most shrimp is imported from tropical countries such as Thailand, where mangrove forests are cut down to make space for shrimp ponds, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. .

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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