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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

Hosted in association with Equans, the latest BusinessGreen webinar explored how firms can ensure buildings remain safe and productive as climate impacts intensify Climate action is typically cleaved into two broad categories. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Climate Policy News You Can Use — May 2024

EDF + Business

Removing the climate guardrails and repurposing those conservation funds would make farmers and ranchers more vulnerable to extreme weather events and undermine efforts to maintain productive soils, clean water and healthy ecosystems. NZAA Resource : Check out the NZAA’s upcoming webinars focused on suppliers and sustainability.

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Hal Harvey’s Insights And Updates: Congressional Climate Plan Is A Bet Your Country Moment

Energy Innovation

House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, created to deliver comprehensive climate policy recommendations for Congress to act upon, has released their recommendations in a report titled Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient and Just America.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Wildfire Fuels Management With Satellite Data

Planet Pulse

Fuels Management: A Need for Better Data for Better Wildfire Risk Modeling Over Broad Areas Fuels management activities — such as prescribed burns, vegetation thinning, invasive species removal, and fuel breaks — build wildfire resilience and are a major focus of wildland fire preparation and mitigation.

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What to expect from voluntary carbon markets in 2024

Business Green

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. And the SBTi plays a big role in corporate decision making," she added.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

The community provides resources and support for members, including events, webinars, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. For example, hazardous waste can contaminate soil and water supplies and pollute the air. For instance, access to free banking services, low interest loans, or bi-issuing pay checks off schedule when needed?

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CCC urges Defra to ensure that Environmental Land Management scheme aligns with UK climate goals

Business Green

The wide-ranging policy aims to reverse biodiversity loss and water quality, while helping the government enhance climate resilience, minimise flood risk and soil loss, and meet its net zero emissions ambition. The report notes that the UK's peatland soils store roughly 3.2