GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company had hoped to reduce consumption by 15 percent by this year, against a 2015 baseline, but it actually increased water use by 1 percent per metric ton of product produced. . What is the company’s policy for protecting biodiversity?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2015, we really started focusing on a cross-commodity approach (that year we worked with [Archer Daniels Midland] to adopt a cross-commodity deforestation commitment, which was a first for the grain traders). Eventually, we adopted a No Deforestation, No Peatland, No Exploitation (NDPE) framework. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

People are understanding how much more the relationships between biodiversity, climate, inequality — may I add racial tension to that? Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, speaking during the World Economic Forum panel on ending poverty through gender parity at Davos on January, 24 2015. Sponsored Article. Source: Paul Kagame.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

Amidst all this, the sustainability agenda has continued to gain steam, including recognition by heads of state, corporate chieftains, religious leaders and others of the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the hunger crisis and the healthcare crisis, among others.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This is getting uncomfortably close to the 1.5 As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. COP15 biodiveristy summit braced for third Covid-19 delay.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

showed that the Amazon temporarily to act as a carbon sink during the 2015 drought. The study also examined the roles of biodiversity and local communities in shaping Amazonian forest resilience. For example, Amazonian trees store massive amounts of carbon which, if released, could accelerate global warming.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2020

Following decades of car-oriented growth that replaced swaths of greenery with asphalt, the city of Montreal is attempting to bring nature back with the launch of its ambitious new Biodiversity Corridor project. This ultimately led to the idea of the Biodiversity Corridor.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. Subscribe here.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

A new £6m Network for Nature programme was today launched by National Highways and The Wildlife Trusts in a bid to enhance natural habitats across England in places where historic road building has had a negative impact on biodiversity.

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Much has changed since the idea for FutureRestorative was conceived back in 2015. A regenerative self recognises all is connected and nested, understands carbon ecology, how nature works and the interplay and importance of biodiversity. This book marks an important milestone in doing that. Photo by Erik Karits on Unsplash.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A living roof helps reduce stormwater runoff, purifies air, creates biodiversity, among other benefits. Therefore, thorough analysis of the space and understanding the project’s parameters are necessary in the designing process in order to create the intended impact. Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. Greenwich, CT. [2]

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As first part of landmark COP15 UN biodiversity summit kicks off, string of reports makes case for more drastic action to protect biodiversity. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement marked the starting blocks to net zero emissions," the letter states.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Meeting an interim target will see it reduce its CO2 by 75 per cent by 2030 from 2015 levels. Chief Investment Officer Tilly Franklin said: "Climate change, ecological destruction, and biodiversity loss present an urgent existential threat, with severe risks to humankind and all other life on Earth.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But the former Foreign Office CEO, who took over at the helm of the EA in 2015, warned against "false choices" in any moves to reshape the UK's approach to regulation post-Brexit, as he called for adequate resources and funding for the EA to carry out its work.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Restoring and creating habitat improves biodiversity, reduces carbon emissions and flood risk, and provides climate resilience, something that's key for the coming years. Everyone talks about a climate change emergency, but there's also a biodiversity emergency. Biodiversity net gain and carbon removal.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. The re-establishment of these forest ecosystems provides shelter, food and space for life to flourish, meaning Costa Rica flaunts incredible biodiversity. Institute climate-resilient public services and infrastructure.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to forest carbon mapping, Salo brings technologies and expertise in mapping patterns of forest structure, wildfire risk, and biodiversity change around the world. Enabling efficient and transparent voluntary carbon market projects , including with verification and platform partners.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG; Houston. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Ranging from ages 10 to 94, the activists cite the UN Sustainable Development Goals agreed in 2015 as a key framework for driving progress, calling them "a historic plan to end extreme poverty, conquer inequality and fix the climate crisis".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Prior to that, Shine worked for over two decades as an independent environmental lawyer and sustainable development consultant for NGOs, governments, and businesses, leading influential projects on biodiversity, climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, and conflict prevention and reconciliation.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The world's forests are vanishing at a breakneck speed, fuelling climate change and decimating biodiversity. million hectares from 2001 to 2015, principally in Indonesia and Malaysia. Land for these commodities replaced 71.9 Oil palm comes a distant second in the destruction league table, replacing 10.5 This marked a 2.8

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Some of that credit goes to the government, which enacted new forest conservation measures following massive forest and peatland fires in 2015 that burned over 600,000 hectares of land.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

McCarthy was the shadow environment and farming secretary from 2015 to 2016, and the shadow minister for green transport from 2020-2021. 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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Nature and biodiversity met the bottom line. With just over half of the $80tr global economy reliant on nature's services, the role of biodiversity became a bottom-line issue. Moreover, the biodiversity and climate crises are inextricably linked , meaning that solving one can help solve the other. Signs of engagement abound.

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