GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

3 tips for anticipating investor requests on climate, water and biodiversity. 2020 undeniably brought the "S" pillar of ESG into greater focus, including issues such as employee wellness, human rights, and diversity, equity and inclusion. As a result, companies should expect greater urgency for biodiversity-protection efforts.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:15. Funding biodiversity (31:14). William Ginn, author of the new book " Valuing Nature ," talks with Associate Editor Deonna Anderson about ways the private sector can address biodiversity. The State of Green Business 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

A former marshalling yard located in Feltham, London, owned by South Western Railway (SWR) has been rejuvenated as a result of the biodiversity improvement works that have been carried out in a joint project between SWR and Tilhill, a provider of nature-based solutions. It has been a pleasure engaging with the SWR team. ”

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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy. Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:21. Esri and the science of corporate biodiversity (20:45). The State of Green Business 2020. Heather Clancy. Week in Review. Commentary on this week's news highlights begins at 4:35. EDT June 16. Resources galore. Download it here.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

National Highways and Manchester Metropolitan University aim to create “a highly detailed map of the habitats found alongside England’s busiest roads to help boost biodiversity” (image: drone photography of the M6 in Cumbria). ” For more on National Highways’ biodiversity work, visit [link].

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The tech titan has invested in protecting forests for some time , but last week it launched a new venture in collaboration with Conservation International that is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, restoring biodiversity and addressing other climate crises while also producing a financial gain for the company. . Pull Quote.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The pavilion concept addresses climate change and biodiversity risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Part of a new report, Our Future on Earth, 2020, in which experts distill latest peer-reviewed, state-of-the-planet research and its interconnected complexities. Four of them — climate change, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and water crises — were also deemed by scientists as most likely to occur.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2022

Environmental scientists, ecologists, and policy experts argue in a letter published on 16 June in Science that the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – a new international agreement to protect biodiversity – fails to account for the totality of chemical pollutants that threaten the health of ecosystems worldwide.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. businesses, states and cities accelerated their action on climate in 2020. For example, investor BlackRock is asking that by the end of 2020, companies issue reports aligned with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Biodiversity. Erin Billman. Natural Capital. Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

These new expectations go beyond the goal-setting and reporting process – it also is now expected that companies will have multifaceted sustainability goals and programs that encompass carbon but also water, waste and biodiversity and also are creating new tools and services to enable others to build on their work. . Wed, 09/02/2020 - 21:35.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This dramatic fall in freshwater biodiversity has been caused through land-use change and exploitation of natural resources, with these pressures now being amplified by additional stresses such as climate change, microplastics and biochemical pollution.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Mon, 11/02/2020 - 01:00. The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging time by sustainability professionals representing business, government, NGOs and academia. Tove Malmqvist.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2023

A new handbook aims to increase biodiversity in agriculture, by promoting innovative approaches to contract arrangements for government-funded payments to farmers. a four-year project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme. The handbook is the product of Contracts2.0,

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And then 2020 happened. To our immense satisfaction, we saw little carnage within corporate sustainability departments during 2020 relative to previous economic downturns, when such functions were often among the first to be downsized or jettisoned. And the year ahead certainly would bring more of the same. Or so we predicted.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The project aims to determine the viability of the initiative and to evaluate the potential positive biodiversity impact of scaling up the initiative. Climate change is becoming the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, and a substantial expansion of offshore wind is central to tackling these interlinked crises.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Fri, 10/09/2020 - 02:00. How to add considerations for equity and biodiversity into renewables procurement? Episode 240: Ceres points the way, Beautycounter's mica makeover. Heather Clancy. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:20). SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'. Cecilia Keating.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Mon, 06/22/2020 - 01:00. When you talk about biodiversity and conservation, there is no value," said prominent Brazilian chef Alex Atala, who runs the world-renowned restaurant D.O.M. When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . Chefs could be the missing ingredient to circular food systems. in São Paulo.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Named the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, the new group will support British businesses as they try to tackle worsening biodiversity impacts and risks. A new coalition of British businesses launching today has pledged to work to reverse biodiversity loss and strengthen natural ecosystems in the areas in which they operate.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Tue, 06/16/2020 - 00:30. Climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity decline, water scarcity — all these issues are interconnected, and we must address them all simultaneously," he said. "In Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion. Cecilia Keating.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UN declares virtual talks have set the stage for the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework next year. The loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation pose a major risk to human survival and development. At present, the rate of global species extinction is accelerating," he said. "At

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Thu, 08/20/2020 - 02:00. Lynn underscores the importance of introducing more biodiversity in food for sustainability and has seen mungbean and sea plants such as algae and phytoplankton become trendy ingredients for food companies looking for more sustainable options. Jesse Klein.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . We were hoping [2020] would be a big year for forests and nature." (The

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New report warns biodiversity degradation is set to have significant economic and financial implications. Biodiversity loss poses risks of similar, and perhaps greater magnitude to many countries, while it is also clear that climate and biodiversity are interlinked and often self-reinforcing issues.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Joel Makower. They called it the Blue New Deal. Its focus: an ocean-based blue economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the WEF’s “State of Finance for Nature” report released on 27 May. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated. The draft agreement highlights the importance of increasing financial flows that can protect biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

STW has announced that it will invest more than £6bn between 2020 and 2025 on new and existing assets like pipes, treatment works and reservoirs. These plans also include ambitions to improve biodiversity throughout the region, including planting more than 1.3

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Mon, 11/30/2020 - 02:11. The world of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting and investing has ramped up significantly over the past couple years, even more so during 2020, when social risks and reporting became front and center for many companies and investors. Introducing … GreenFin 21. Joel Makower. Three in four U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. Irwin looks back on 2020 with "somewhat rose-tinted glasses" because it has proven the need to take the relationship between nature and society seriously. Reframe as vulnerability.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

ng Cô Golf Course and Resort in Vietnam has developed a regenerative model with a 17-acre rice field that runs throughout the property that yielded a 28-ton crop in 2020. Particularly, Laguna L?ng In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Up until now, the company’s impact on the land and biodiversity (natural capital) or the benefits gained from workforce skills and talent (human capital) were not captured in the company’s financial performance.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 8, 2020

IMARA enriches ground truth data with remote sensing data to quantify and visualize environmental impact in order to boost projects working towards a more sustainable, biodiverse, and balanced world. Congratulations to IMARA and all of the Copernicus Masters 2020 Challenge winners!

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