DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Major meat companies and industry lobby groups are planning a large presence at COP28 in a few days time, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit, DeSmog can reveal. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

Investors argue Food Strategy could deliver better outcomes for the planet if Ministers make sustainability reporting mandatory at larger companies. These efforts could be initially targeted at large companies across retail, manufacturing, out of home, food to go and online delivery businesses, it said.

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

This is part 1 of a conversation with John Thackara – senior fellow of the Royal College of Art, visiting professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, founder and director of the Doors of Perception sustainable design conferences, and author of many books, including How to Thrive in the Next Economy. I ‘m a sustainability person.

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Low Impact

JULY 26, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017, and as a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol Region. Because we operate in green circles, we hear a lot about sustainable growth, or green growth, and it drives me insane – it’s such an oxymoron. He served in the U.S. He’s very good.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. Numbers two and three are really favourable in Europe," he adds. "And

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By providing funding and administrative support to these informal but highly influential parliamentary groups, the industry has backdoor access to relevant decision-making processes that it can then manipulate in its favour.” They are required to register financial interests and “benefits in kind” – services at a reduced rate or free.

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 16, 2020

Having grown up in Belfast in the 1970s and 1980s, I have witnessed first hand what damage divisive tribalism can do to communities and individuals: both sides seeing themselves as the threatened group, all your own side’s sins justified via ‘whataboutery’. Another author proclaimed “We won’t get to Sustainability without mindfulness.”

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

TNFD co-chair and Refinitiv CEO David Craig chats to BusinessGreen about the daunting task of drawing up nature-related risk disclosure guidelines. It is hoping to have its first set of guidelines ready to go in just two years from now. Yet, as the TNFD's recently-appointed co-chair David Craig points out, this is no easy feat.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

System change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us. The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks. I could end this article here, but I won’t, because that’s not the main problem. The UK will miss by a mile.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Our Time on Earth , which has just finished its 12-week run at the London gallery, offered an immersive and interactive exhibition of works from around the world exploring how radical ideas, technologies, social movements, and the latest science are being utilised to tackle the climate crisis and transform everyday life over the coming decades.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The UK is a world-leader in green finance, but there's still much more the government can do, writes Dr Ben Caldecott of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI). The transition to global environmental sustainability requires vast capital-intensive investments in every sector of the global economy.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. It has exposed our vulnerabilities - and is, I hope, a wake-up call to the consequences of our abusive relationship with the natural world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The business coalition, which counts major energy producers and consumers amongst its membership, including ArcelorMittal, Shell, Iberdrola, Orsted, Volvo Group, and BP, has today argued it is "technically and economically possible" to have a carbon free economy in the developed world by 2050 and the developing world just 10 years later.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Dubbed the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme, the new approach aims to ensure farmers in England are incentivised to embrace more sustainable practices, boost carbon sinks, and enhance nature. Meanwhile, the ELM will ramp up from a three-year pilot involving 5,500 farmers beginning 2021 to full national rollout by 2028.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Rules aimed at preventing companies from importing products into the UK that are linked to illegal deforestation are to be added to the Environment Bill, as part of a package of measures to boost the resilience, traceability, and sustainability of corporate supply chains confirmed by the government today.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

The government today said that the new strategy would seek to drive innovation and technology deployment across the farming strategy in order to boost domestic production while enhancing sustainability across the sector.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

Evian's vice-president of brand Shweta Harit talks to BusinessGreen about the French water company's sustainability ambitions, in particular a pledge to use 100 per cent recycled bottles by 2025. The snowfall of this year takes 15 years to become Evian water. The concept of circularity and cycle has long been a part of the brand.".

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Low Impact

JULY 19, 2020

For most economists, and essentially all economics textbooks, money is just that — money: inevitable, obvious, as if it were water, or gravity — part of the basic structure of the world. We get on with our lives, and simply allow something unexamined to constrain every aspect of how we do so. How crazy is that?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Worryingly, an increase in methane emissions from natural carbon sinks that are coming under growing pressure from both rising temperatures and human development cannot be ruled out. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Raft of reports suggest global emissions are closer than ever to peaking, but a huge gap remains between national decarbonisation pathways and the cuts needed to keep temperature rises below 1.5C. It was the mantra that defined last year's COP26 Climate Summit. Politicians, businesses, and campaigners all stressed their desire to "keep 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Not only is this the right thing to do; it also drives innovation and reflects changing consumer preferences. More than 80 per cent of people worldwide favour products with less plastic packaging, according to an IPSOS poll published last week. Consumer goods companies - including Unilever - are big users of plastic.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

But while the nature of threats to health, economies and societies posed by the two crises are very different, a new report this week from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change argues there is much the past year's Covid-19 challenges can teach businesses and policymakers about combatting climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Her speech contained little new of note for the green economy, and as expected lent heavily on her mantra of growth as the solution to the UK's economic woes, which has seen the the pound plummet and recession fears worsen off the back of the Chancellor's widely-criticised mini-Budget just under a fortnight ago.

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

Do you manage it from your smallholding? If you’re producing fruit juice, or vegetable boxes, or dairy, or anything – if you’re doing it on a small scale, the price is not going to reflect market conditions out here. But they’re really high quality, it’s sustainable and it builds community. Here’s part 1 of the interview.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the same time, some advocates of heat pumps and other electric heating technologies counter that gas grid operators arguing for gas grid upgrades do not pass the Mandy Rice-Davies test : 'they would say that, wouldn't they?'.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for: economic growth, improved livelihoods, job creation, and ocean ecosystem health. Achieving a sustainable Blue Economy requires amplified conversation, education and intentional efforts in ocean conservation. Without clean water, health is compromised, and lives are endangered.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Because some consumers have indicated they will pay more money for products they believe to be environmentally friendly, it's only natural that corporations depict their goods and services as worth that premium, dousing ads in Pantone shades of Foliage, Greenbriar or Treetop and virtue-signalling with stock phrases and clichés.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

They are expected to meet the deadline with just a day to spare. The announcements are non-negotiable, given the High Court ruled last year that the UK's current Net Zero Strategy is 'inadequate' and unlawful under the Climate Change Act. How then will Ministers respond and what will the revamped strategy entail? What's in a name?

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

There is going to be significant material growth in the sector, and its going to be economically sustainable as well as environmentally sustainable.". After one particularly deep round of cuts, around the decade's mid-point, the industry contracted in size by a third, shedding roughly 12,000 jobs.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The letter, which was also endorsed by former Brexit Minister Lord Frost, cited contentious industry projections that suggested a UK fracking industry could extract "at least 50 years of cheap and sustainable gas" from shale deposits across northern England. Between just one & three per cent of UK gas comes from Russia," he explained. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Now he still has to do all of that, but he also have to tackle the economic fallout from a fast-spreading global virus, plummeting stock markets, consumer panic-buying, and an oil price slump. Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? The implications for the green economy and global decarbonisation efforts remain unclear.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Bringing together a raft of existing commitments made over the past year and a sprinkling of new targets and policies, the roadmap provides a 350-plus page deep-dive into how the government aims to deliver a more sustainable future for the transport, heating, power, building, and industrial sectors. Could the Treasury be 'starting to get it'?

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Influential consultancy details how five major shifts will be necessary to steer the global economy on to a sustainable path, and that a laggard approach to the decarbonisation of power and transport now will have direct impact on the levels of reforestation required later. They argue that the road ahead is onerous, but not impossible.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Why should we sacrifice nature for the sake of development?" Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. 90 per cent of people breathe polluted air.". "By

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Brazen Beef is just one example of how meat and dairy companies are working hard to convince the public and policymakers that a greener, more benign version of industrial animal agriculture is within reach. In early March, global food giant Tyson unveiled a new beef product line at the 2023 annual industry meat conference.

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