Remove tag un-environment
article thumbnail

Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

UN-Habitat’s Urban Resilience Hub has defined urban resilience as “the measurable ability of any urban system, with its inhabitants, to maintain continuity through all shocks and stresses, while positively adapting and transforming toward sustainability” and a key part of that ability will be technological. Technology pilots. Best practice.

article thumbnail

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

DeSmogBlog

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

article thumbnail

The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

article thumbnail

The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

article thumbnail

Liz Truss prepares to announce energy price freeze plan

Business Green

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Ranil Jayawardena has been widely reported as the likely successor to George Eustice as Environment Secretary, giving the former International Trade Minister crucial oversight of nature, farming, and water policy.

Energy 69
article thumbnail

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.