Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Satelliite communications firm Inmarsat has joined forces with RESOLVE, the Washington DC based non-profit environmental and health organisation, to develop a satellite-enabled solution to safeguard endangered wildlife across the African continent. Use of the system in Tanzania, East Africa has already resulted in the arrest of poachers.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

After being contacted for an interview for this story, the company provided several written updates about its soy sourcing strategy including these highlights: More than 95 percent of the soy it purchased in Brazil for the 2018-2019 crop year was "deforestation- and land-conversion free". Map your sourcing.

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 539

Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.

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North America Biodiversity Health Climate change 144

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. With an estimated 2.2

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In our role as Custodians of the tidal Thames, ensuring the estuary’s continued and improving health is a key priority. ” The PLA Investment Plan, launched in May 2018, is aimed at accelerating delivery of the goals in the Thames Vision.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years. Live hard coral cover is a scientifically based indicator of coral reef health, while increases in algae are a widely accepted signal of stress to reefs. in 73 countries. across 12,000 sites. collected by more than 300 scientists.

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Ocean acidification Biodiversity Health Climate change 147

Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE AND COVID-19 A warming world threatens to unleash a host of diseases and other threats to human health. 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. million acres.

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Climate change Biodiversity Global warming Health 98

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The government faces a major challenge to deliver its 2025 tree planting ambitions, with figures showing only around 1,300 hectares of trees were planted in England in 2018-19. As such the upcoming Strategy is seen as a critical to helping meet both its nature and climate targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The consultation seeks to make a clear link between the current Covid-19 crisis and biodiversity loss, climate change, and human activity, arguing that all of these factors make devastating pandemics and resulting threats to public health and the economy far more likely.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. The company’s first commercial vertical farm (JFC1) started production in 2018 with 5,000m 2 of growing space and the capacity to produce 150 tonnes per year of fresh produce.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Building Energy Monitoring 147

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. cropland and help the U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 97

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The baseline for measuring progress will come from 2018, when Nestlé emitted 92 million tonnes of greenhouse gases. These efforts will encompass three main areas, following the firm: regenerative agriculture; operations; and its product portfolio. It is imperative to the long-term success of our business.

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Agriculture Carbon-neutral Climate change Soil 97

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. On top of this, another report by the Global Investment Sustainable Alliance stated that sustainable investments have risen by 15% from 2018 to 2020 (reaching $35 trillion).

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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Methane Agriculture Climate change Global warming 98

Fairsnape

JULY 11, 2019

It also comes after a raft of Climate Emergency declarations from the UK Government, over 100 councils, Architects, RIBA, Landscape Institute and others that acknowledge the climate and biodiversity emergency with pledges to act on a raft of regenerative approaches. Key Findings. Headlines (relating to the built environment).

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Climate change Global warming Health Biodiversity 60

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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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 82

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It also builds on the company's existing 'Farms of the Future' initiative, which aims to promote regenerative farming practices that can enhance biodiversity and soil health. McCain growers saw an average 18 per cent reduction in yield in 2018 and 16 per cent of our 2019 storage crop was still left in field.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Our demands on nature far exceed its capacity to supply them and this poses significant risk to the health and wellbeing of economies and societies. The transition to a circular model will be essential to halt the twin trends of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? The report draws on a raft of landmark reports published in recent years.

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Biodiversity Climate change Politics Global warming 67

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Pee Dee River flows near town, and in 2018, when Hurricane Florence hit, the river leapt its banks, and Johnny B. I met with her last autumn in a one-room Pentecostal church in town, where she and a neighbor and fellow parishioner, 50-year-old Debbie Short, described the collapse of their health. “I I use a nebulizer now.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Waste 130

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

A 2018 Boston University study found that only one in 10 people recognised native advertising – which includes branded content – as advertising rather than reporting. Credit: BBC According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

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Pollution Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 145

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. Public health, as well as food and power supplies, are also at risk from increased disruption as temperatures rise, the report warned.

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Climate change Resilience Government Biodiversity 66

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. Zeichner has also argued that pollinator health was “just not negotiable” in a debate on whether to ban particularly harmful neonicotinoid pesticides.

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Climate change Hydrogen Government Transportation 133

Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This resonates well with me, and with many of the messages I have used over recent years, in FutuREstorative in 2016 and in the series of #imaginebetter keynotes for Specifi and others through 2018 into 2019.

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Construction Sustainability Biodiversity Climate change 60

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. trillion – a 42% increase since 2018. Employee health and safety: With 89% of employees feeling that AstraZeneca is a great place to work. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Compliance governance: 49.1

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Sustainability Organic Investment Ethics 148

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss. assets under management that engaged in ESG investment strategies grew by 42% compared to the beginning of 2018, reaching $17.1

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The outcomes of the trial will be used to influence the roll out of low carbon techniques across Heineken's barley suppliers as it works to meet a goal of reducing its agricultural emissions by 33 per cent by 2030 against a 2018 baseline and achieve a carbon neutral value chain by 2040.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Soil Agriculture 44

AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

Some of the compounds in the waste are potential hazards to human health. We know we’re losing biodiversity at a rate that is 1,000 times faster than we should be,” said Stuart Pimm, a conservation biologist at Duke University. In 2018, ITU set a target of recycling about 30% of e-waste produce annually by 2023. This is about 9.2

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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. The process appeals to farmers who want an assessment of the health of their whole farm.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 140

Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Not only does that protect the health of people inside, it lessens the need for costly and energy-intensive air conditioners. In 2016, the city shifted its approach to urban design to prioritize creating and connecting more green spaces to tackle heat, air quality, and biodiversity.

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Cool roof Fossil fuels Cooling Resilience 89

Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. But if Ministers want to stand any chance of delivering on their promise to restore the UK's hugely damaged environment they need to act fast.

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