Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. From next year the government will launch a seven year transition period to phase in the new ELM scheme, which will see payments calculated based on the extent to which landowners deliver approved public goods. "The

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Three quarters (71%) do not think the industry is currently equipped to deal with the challenges of climate and nature loss, at the same time as sustainably producing food. The research also reveals over eight in ten people (86%) want to support farmers who are creating wildlife habitats and restoring soil health.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Ginkgo Sustainability to offer GBB members living wall and living roof solutions and services. Earn GBB Ecopoints, earn LEED credits and enhance building aesthetics. “ – Christian Mahlstedt, President of Ginkgo Sustainability. Fulfill municipal by-law requirements.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

While flue gas is used across various industries, from petrochemical to manufacturing, power generation, and automobile industries, governments have erected environmental laws to ensure the production and distribution processes are safe for the environment. Flue gas cleaning solutions are just as important as their production.

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Grist

JUNE 7, 2023

We’re going plastic-free; my future mother-in-law procured all of our mismatched plates, silverware, and glasses from thrift shops and yard sales; and we’re planning to decorate with bundles of invasive grasses that we’ll pick the day before. .” And that can include honoring values around climate and sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

The government has introduced a refreshed strategy which aims to walk the tightrope of promoting the safe and sustainable use of space while also encouraging innovation and investment in space businesses. This includes dynamic regulation, promoting a Space Sustainability Standard and encouraging finance for space business.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Credit: Pixabay.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The network of lawyers and sustainability professionals now boasts 2,500 participants from over 300 organisations, who have worked on a pro bono basis to draft over 100 free and open access clauses that can be inserted into contracts with immediate effect. We look forward to helping lawyers incorporate TCLP clauses into their everyday work.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“The worry is that carbon removal will be something we do so that business-as-usual can continue,” said Sara Nawaz, director of research at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. “We We need a really big conversation reframe.” That’s not a scalable approach,” she said. “We’re

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. degrees Celsius.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

The good news is, farmers across the country are already working to implement sustainable practices! Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s However, our work doesn’t stop there. s farming and nutrition programs.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. Lawyers are required to act in the best interests of their client - reducing costs, minimising risk and avoiding liability.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Sustainability Careers. The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Some roles are very specialized and may require a degree or certification in a specific sustainability field. So how do you pursue a career in sustainability?

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The UK government has been accused of breaking international environmental law by failing to give the public a say over its post-Brexit trade deals, with a coalition of farming, trade, and conservation groups lodging a legal challenge against the controversial agreement reached earlier this year with Australia.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 10, 2023

While Trees Forever provided the materials and tree planting expertise, Campus Ambassador Lauren Litterer educated attendees on the benefits of tree cover in densely populated cities, why equitable tree distribution is so important, and how the recently-passed climate law is making this all accessible.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They are coastal farmers in Senegal whose soil is being salinated by rising sea levels; they are maize and rice farmers in Nigeria facing extended dry spells and unpredictable rainfall; and they are fishers and pastoral farmers watching Lake Chad disappear before their eyes. They are more open to sustainable practices than older generations.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As a result, plenty of people in the business community - including a lot of sustainability professionals - will have barely registered that COP15 (the fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity) started this past week in Montreal and will continue through to 19 December.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. We have legislated through the Environment Act and will continue to improve our regulations and wildlife laws in line with our ambitious vision.". Far from it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound investments in oil and gas companies, after years of student campaigning, and more recently it launched an ambitious Sustainability Strategy. However impressive its sustainability credentials are, Oxford cannot achieve climate justice while retaining these links.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied. But it's not enough for regulations to simply exist.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Ministers at the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) believe existing EU laws are too focused on legal interpretation rather than science, hindering the development and marketing of precision bred plants and animals. Outside the EU we are free to follow the science," said Environment Secretary, George Eustice.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Sustainability Careers. The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Some roles are very specialized and may require a degree or certification in a specific sustainability field. So how do you pursue a career in sustainability?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Three-quarters of those surveyed backed using public money to help farmers produce healthy soils, food, landscapes, rivers, and wildlife in the UK, while seven in 10 opposed the use of public money to maintain 'business as usual' farming practices.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Jim Giles explores the deep divisions that are shaping the emerging field of soil-based offsets. This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. A second Young Turk heresy concerns the use of soil sampling.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

These included “showing the general public that French agriculture is sustainable and respectful of the environment” and that “it takes into account the expectations of society and younger generations”. France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

During the NDG meeting last week, Ministers discussed actions needed over the next six months to sustain essential water supplies in preparation for spring and summer next year. Suggestions included water companies implementing their drought plans and accelerating infrastructure plans to improve the resilience of water supplies.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Sustainable proteins will be a big part of British diets over the coming decade and this is a real opportunity for Britain's leading food industry, entrepreneurs and scientists to come together to make alternatives affordable, tasty, and healthy," said Linus Pardoe, SMF research associate. "The

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. Alternative and Sustainable Approach. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations.

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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. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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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. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more sustainability insights from Schroders > Zero emission.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission.

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