Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2020

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. Biodiversity loss has a cascade of impacts which is why it is tied to the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). Biodiversity was a salient theme at the G7 Summit in August.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government has committed to protect 30 per cent of land and sea and halt biodiversity decline in the next decade in support of its wider efforts to slash carbon emissions by 78 per cent against 1990 levels by 2035.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) set the so-called Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Policymakers, scientists, and country negotiators are now preparing for the next generation of biodiversity goals for…

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 20, 2020

Along with biodiversity loss, climate change is considered to be the greatest threat the world faces. While academics have been at the forefront of efforts to acknowledge and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises, most businesses and governments have not been doing enough. Subscribe in a reader

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Seagrass meadows play a crucial role in maintaining healthy marine environments, fostering biodiversity, and mitigating climate change by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. of the seafloor [source: Duarte et al., 2005b; Kennedy et al.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Annual WWF Living Planet report warns continued biodiversity loss is jeopardising climate goals and undermining economic development. The report found that the Caribbean and Latin America - home to the Amazon and one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth - has seen average wildlife population sizes plummet by 94 per cent since 1970.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol , launched in 2010, was a major step forward for the sector. Costa said the protocol had delivered some major ESG gains for the hydropower sector, for example by encouraging developers to create biodiversity corridors and natural parks to offset the environmental impact of projects.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2020

Proposals intended to replace a 2010 framework are set to be discussed by diplomats at a major UN summit in China in October.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Between 2010 and 2019, the amount of algae has increased by 20 per cent, corresponding with declines in hard coral cover. This progressive transition from coral to algae-dominated reef communities reduces the complex habitat that is essential to support high levels of biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. A six week period this autumn could go a long way to determining humanities prospects over the next century and beyond.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

Response options can benefit biodiversity, help us adapt to climate change and secure livelihoods, food and water and wood supplies. From 2010-2019, average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, although the rate of growth has slowed. This offers significant untapped potential.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) suggest that the planet is on track to be 16% over 2010 levels of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, whereas to hold warming to less than 1.5C, we need to be at 45% below 2010 levels in the next nine years.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most important biodiversity conference in a generation is kicking off this week, with negotiating teams from around the world convening on Montreal, Canada to hammer out the terms of a new global pact for nature. As such the expectations for the COP15 Biodiversity Summit are high, fuelled by the extra-long lead up to the talks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Since 2010, air pollution emissions have fallen significantly, with nitrogen oxides dropping 63 per cent, sulphur oxides falling 81 per cent and PM10 particle pollution cut by just over a third, the report shows. Data from the EA last year also showed all English rivers failed to meet quality tests for pollution.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The decision to freeze fuel duty and keep the 5p cut made by the Conservatives in 2022 is attracting some fury, not least because the tax relief is estimated to have raised UK greenhouse gas emissions by 7% since 2010.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Nature is declining at an alarming rate, and we have never lived on a planet with so little biodiversity," she said. Transformative action on incentives and subsidies harmful for biodiversity will be decisive this decade to bend the curve of biodiversity loss," she said. "I

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In 2010, representatives from 194 countries met in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and agreed on 20 biodiversity targets to reach in the next decade. A new UN report details progress made on what are called the Aichi biodiversity targets. Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 Via Earth.org Image via Wendy Cover/NOAA.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

RESTORD’s regenerative economic approaches and growth emerged from application and adoption of the late 2010’s SDG, Preston Model localism and Doughnut Economics, never exceeding the cities ‘planetary’ capacity ceiling, or falling below its social threshold. As in natural canopy spacing).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Devon Wildlife Trust’s Mark Elliott has led the charity’s beaver work since its beginnings in 2010. These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall, and releasing water into rivers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Fairsnape

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose. degrees, we have to slash emissions by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030. Round up of Carbon Visions and Targets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the plan, Nescafé said it would work with its coffee farmers to improve soil health and fertility, protect water resources, and support biodiversity in order to increase yields and help improve farmers' livelihoods, while also helping to sequester carbon through healthier soils.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Preserving biodiverse forests and soggy peatlands has the added benefit of keeping some of the world’s biggest carbon sinks intact. Between 2010 and 2020, human mortality from floods, droughts, and storms was 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions than in areas that are better insulated from climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Ministers must press ahead with bold biodiversity targets that can unlock much-needed public and private investment for efforts to enhance nature and tackle air, water and waste pollution, argues The Wildlife Trusts' Eliot Chapman-Jones. Water is the bedrock of our biodiversity. In nearly ten years, the condition of just 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to attend the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit which is set to kick off next Wednesday in Montreal, with campaigners calling on the Prime Minister demonstrate his support for an ambitious outcome from the high-profile UN meeting.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Carbon Brief explored how climate change and biodiversity disturbance, including habitat loss and human-animal conflict, could influence the risk of diseases being transmitted from animals to humans. Climate change kills forests , animals and the full spectrum of biodiversity including humans. This was well above the 1991-2010 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

As a result of this rapid expansion, overall emissions from Ireland’s agricultural sector, which had been declining slowly up until around 2010, rose by a massive 19.3 An analyst with Rabobank described the atmosphere in the dairy sector at the time as being “like the night before Christmas”. Climate Budget Fight.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

RTÉ has since 2010 treated the post of environment correspondent as optional, citing resource constraints. Padraic Fogarty, Campaigns Officer at the Irish Wildlife Trust, told DeSmog: “It’s been really disappointing to see how RTÉ are ignoring the climate and biodiversity crisis. per cent relating to climate change.

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