Green Market Oracle

JUNE 5, 2020

Some additional highlights include Global Landscape Forum Bonn Digital Conference (see details below) and Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Online Event. The host country for this year's World Environment Day is Columbia Events featuring experts on biodiversity issues from across the globe.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

This has resulted in the release of greenhouse gases as well as the loss of biodiversity and natural buffer zones protecting properties and infrastructure from flooding. She says: “Saltmarshes can play an important role in addressing the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Government unveils biodiversity funding boost as it also joins global efforts to protect Amazon rainforest in Peru. International environment minister Lord Zac Goldsmith Goldsmith said World Environment Day provided a "stark reminder of why we need to take urgent action to reverse global biodiversity loss".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. This imbalance must be addressed, according to the report, or else disaster awaits. Don't have time to read the 606 page report?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

BNP Paribas head of corporate engagement Antoine Sire said the policy "reflects a growing understanding of the challenges associated with biodiversity not only within the financial community but also among many corporate clients". Campaigners welcomed BNP's acknowledgement of the role of its agribusiness clients in fuelling deforestation. "BNP

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Related: World gets F on Aichi biodiversity report card “Truly sustainable economic growth and development means recognizing that our long-term prosperity relies on rebalancing our demand of nature’s goods and services with its capacity to supply them,” Dasgupta said in a statement. View post:Â .

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2020

Unfettered capitalism imperils biodiversity and endangers the future of civilization. According to a 2014 NASA study , such concentrations of wealth have historically contributed to the collapse of civilizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fault lines that highlight weaknesses in our economic system.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The restoration project began in 2014 as part of the whisky distillery's sustainability strategy, and is set to continue for the forseeable to assess the restored reef's climate benefits. As such, it is hoped the restored reef will be able to help eradicate by-products in the water from the distillery and local area. "It

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there are almost 60 million more undernourished people now as compared to 2014. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. The world seems to be less nourished than ever before.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2014, with local community support, Devon Wildlife Trust and a partnership including the University of Exeter, Clinton Devon Estates and the Derek Gow Consultancy, successfully secured a license from government which would allow the beavers to stay and be studied over a five-year period.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

European Commission reportedly weighing up options for stronger disclosure rules governing climate, biodiversity loss and pandemic risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The FIA previously introduced hybrid engines into F1 and created the world's first all-electric racing series Formula E in 2014, before later setting up a dedicated Environment and Sustainability Commission in 2017 chaired by former Mexico President Felipe Calderón. by the end of the century.

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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. Forest conservation and management, for instance, can limit climbing risks from disease and wildfires, while restoring sponge-like wetlands and rivers can keep flooding in check.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Terra Fondriest via FERN Hamilton and Steele have decided to bet on biodiversity. Instead of a year-round monoculture of fescue, they have a biodiverse mix of warm- and cool-season grasses, along with wildflowers. The southeastern U.S.,

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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.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Existing capital and technology are sufficient to keep climate goals within reach, the authors said, and could be leveraged to effect “major transitions” toward wind, solar, and other renewable technologies — many of which have become much cheaper since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report was released in 2014.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The government has been accused of neglecting soil health in England and thereby potentially heightening the risks of flood, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss, after a freedom of information request revealed it spends just a fraction of its environmental monitoring budget on enhancing and protecting soils.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Gifford, who was Lord Mayor of London between 2012 and 2013 and was knighted in 2014 for services to international business, culture and the City, also worked for several decades at Swedish investment bank SEB, serving as head of its UK arm from 2000. He has left an indelible mark on the industry and on all of us.".

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

The comments marked a slight change in tone from Bolsonaro's administration, which has faced fierce criticism worldwide for its perceived failure to protect the Amazon, which has seen rates of deforestation and major fires soar under his leadership, exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Current estimates suggest that expenditures for PA are less than one third of what is needed in developing and half of what is required in developed countries (CBD High Level Panel, 2014).

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

“No other tree species in our eastern landscape exerts such a widespread and profound influence on the environment and other organisms, including ourselves,” researchers who work in the Harvard Forest, Orwig among them, wrote in a book published in 2014 titled Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Resources were thin.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

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. Activists are constantly told that ‘we need to bring people with us’ but this is impossible so long as media refuse to engage with the issue.”.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Grey infrastructure is still a key component in these sponge cities, but the concept implies a noticeable shift to blue and green infrastructure, with improvements in biodiversity and water services. Yu spoke about how the environment of cities can be transformed to retain water and create stunning urban landscapes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume, launched in 2019, is part of an effort from the Brazilian beauty giant to sustainability source ingredients for its beauty products from the Amazon that underscore the benefits of keeping the rainforest intact as a hotbed of biodiversity, while also communicating to end consumers about nature's benefits and limits. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titled Ready for Tomorrow , the new strategy promises action to meet ambitious targets across five focus areas: net zero, air quality, biodiversity, waste, and water management. However, the new strategy will now see the company ramp up investment in a fresh wave of projects that aim to significantly increase its renewables capacity.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

In 2014, IBM launched a 10-year, $100 million project to use its Watson cognitive computing system to help Africa solve business and social challenges. The program, dubbed AI for Earth , is finding and funding innovators who are making progress in four critical areas — climate change, water, agriculture, and biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Through this latest investment, we will help provide a comprehensive package of essential data to support the development of this important project, safeguard marine biodiversity and make valuable insights available to benefit many other marine industries.".

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

The organization helps local communities plant trees to restore habitat for biodiversity, promote cleaner air, and absorb CO2. Since 2014, they’ve developed partnerships in over 80 countries and planted over 100 million trees.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

These concerns are in addition to the long-standing fears that the nature-based solutions rolled out to date by corporates can struggle to deliver promised emissions savings while also having a detrimental impact on biodiversity, food and water security, as well as local or Indigenous livelihoods.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

In 2014 NASA published a paper which studied the factors that contributed to the fall of great civilizations. We have a chance to save our planet, including much of the diverse array of flora and fauna that make up our biodiversity. This paper suggested that our society could collapse due to inequality and too few natural resources.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. .” Assisted natural regeneration happens when humans speed up natural processes by planting seedlings and protecting them as they grow. million trees. +

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. He testified in Congress and appeared on national news shows to lobby for his industry.

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