GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“By the end of the year, it’s expected that hydropower will have to pass an ESG gap analysis to be eligible for climate bonds,” said João Costa, head of sustainability at the International Hydropower Association (IHA). The move comes amid growing investor scrutiny of environmental, social and ethical standards.

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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. Businesses cannot afford to ignore climate risks.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

When Kris de Decker published an article in 2020 on using surplus heat from domestic woodburning stoves to produce modest amounts of electricity, he received a torrent of objections on these lines: “How is cutting down trees sustainable?” ” “This is pure insanity. ” 2. .” Schismatic Science.

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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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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. In fact on our watch , despite great sustainability initiatives, the situation has gotten worse and is escalating … in the wrong direction.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

"However, for stakeholders who address climate transition risks seriously there are lucrative new opportunities to diversify revenues, intensify output sustainably, and continue to see growth.". Orbitas' analysis indicates that the palm oil industry will enter a new era as the result of climate change," the company said.

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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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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

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

JUNE 3, 2020

What if … we applied all the good thinking on regenerative sustainability, regenerative economics and regenerative environments to a city as a means of emerging from the Covid 19 lockdown? Welcome to RESTORD 2030. RESTORD is a vibrant small to medium sea board city, at the foot of the Central Mountains with a Mid-European climate.

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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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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

BusinessGreen breaks down the myriad ways negotiations kicking off in Montreal this week will impact businesses committed to building a more sustainable world. There are hopes the Summit will mark a turning point for UN biodiversity negotiations, which have to date failed to slow the ongoing destruction of the environment.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Any further delay” in global action, the report says, “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”. Preserving biodiverse forests and soggy peatlands has the added benefit of keeping some of the world’s biggest carbon sinks intact. Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Nescafé has unveiled plans to invest one billion Swiss francs - over $1bn - in scaling up regenerative agriculture methods and environmentally sustainable coffee farming worldwide over the coming decade, as part of parent company Nestlé's drive to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Its researchers proudly brandished a 96-page “synthesis” of its World Resources Report: Creating A Sustainable Food Future. Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. The post Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

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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. As such the groups argued for a 'mass balance' strategy that would mix soya from both sustainable and conventional sources.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Climate change shifts us into an era of sustained elevated risk from extreme weather and climate events," American meteorologist Dr. James Marshall Shepherd told the New York Times. 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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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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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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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. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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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. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The world's forests are vanishing at a breakneck speed, fuelling climate change and decimating biodiversity. Nearly 12 million hectares of tropical forest vanished in 2019, according to the WRI, equivalent to a football pitch of primary, biodiverse-rich rainforest disappearing every six seconds. This marked a 2.8

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Natura & Co sustainability executives sit down with BusinessGreen to discuss how the company balances profitability and sustainability, and why the Paris Agreement will fail unless the Amazon is protected. This is no small feat.

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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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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested. coal burning.”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Architects of Paris Agreement urge world leaders to deliver equally ambitious treaty for nature at upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit. The science has been very clear: human activities are driving accelerating biodiversity loss which in turn is undermining our ability to limit global warming to 1.5C," he said.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss. Also, most countries will miss their targets. Going for a walk?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

McCarthy sits on a number of environmental cross-party All Party Parliamentary Groups, including on global deforestation, biodiversity in UK overseas territories, and bees and pollinators. In a post on her website, she said it was “beyond belief” that the government would be putting obstacles in the way of solar power.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Far from delivering reported savings of £1.5bn, for example, the 2010-2015 Coalition Government's 'red-tape cutting' initiatives have increased regulatory burdens on business by at least £3.1bn, the report estimates.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Proposals to ban the sale of peat-based compost in the UK from 2024 to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crises have been unveiled today by the government, with Ministers now formally seeking views on mandatory product labelling, enforcement mechanisms, and potential exemptions from the new rules.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

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