Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

65 leaders - including from Canada, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK and the EU - endorsed a Leaders' Pledge for Nature - which aims to turn the tide o n nature and biodiversity loss and instead place it on a path to recovery by 2030. Last week something significant happened. This is a new framework that will set the global ambition for nature.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Freedom of Information request to all 317 English Local Authorities received 294 responses, which showed that: 1 Only 41% (121 of 294) have considered the biodiversity actions they need to take with policies and objectives to support this.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The government said the new plan would deliver a planning system for large infrastructure projects that is "better, faster, greener, fairer, and more resilient", following widespread complaints from industry that planning delays are hampering efforts to deliver critical low carbon infrastructure and acting as a drag on the UK's economic performance.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For more than 20 years, WRI has identified annual stories to watch. These are the years moments, issues and decisions that we believe will shape the future trajectory of the world. In the past, weve highlighted things like dangerous heat in cities,

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.

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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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The City Fix

MARCH 7, 2025

COP30 in Belm, Brazil, will be the most substantial and strategic mechanism for local and subnational governments to influence and impact national and global sustainability agendas in 2025. As we gear up for the mid-year Bonn Climate Conference, it is.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Defra seeking applications for funding from projects that can enhance tree planting stocks, boost woodland resilience, and create new forestry markets The government has this week announced it is seeking applications for funding from two innovation funds designed to boost the sustainability and resilience of the forestry sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It has increased carbon capture and storage, biodiversity, and green jobs through work at its two estates – Bunloit and Beldorney. Innovating Scotland Award – Innovatium Group is a micro business in Glasgow developing technology solutions for industrial decarbonisation and energy resilience.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Veteran environmentalist's second term at the helm of conservation watchdog is set to run until Spring 2025. He previously worked at consevation groups WWF-UK and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts before joining Natural England, and will serve his second term at the body from 23 April 2022 to 22 April 2025.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Danone is currently providing training to farmers in France to make the switch to new techniques to meet a goal to rely on 100 per cent regenerative farming in the country to by 2025. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses. It responds. Big time.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The UK has a "clear opportunity to catalyse a stronger and more resilient economy" by making net zero strategies mandatory for large companies, which would create a level playing field and help ensure the business and finance community is prepared to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the letter argues.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following a consultation last year, the government yesterday confirmed plans to bring in the new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements in a phased approach between now and the end of 2025, starting with local planning authorities this year before extending to major infrastructure projects.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Nearly 40 of the UK's leading housebuilders have backed a sector-wide plan for the industry to achieve the government's target of delivering zero carbon-ready homes by 2025, as well as a number of other national climate and nature goals.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025. Planetary boundaries are nine environmental 'red lines' that researchers have warned will compromise life on Earth if crossed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

To create fairer, greener and more resilient economies at home and around the world. That is why, as hosts of COP26 , the UK wants to ramp up ambition to achieve a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. These are: clean energy, clean transport, nature-based solutions, adaptation and resilience, and underpinning everything, finance.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. Another high profile, international initiative is slated for 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

“From helping to reduce carbon emissions, encouraging biodiversity and nature recovery, and improving people’s health and wellbeing, the benefits of trees are undeniable. “I The Government manifesto commits to increase planting across the UK to 30,000 hectares per year by 2025.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Future of Green Hydrogen for vehicles on Fuerteventura Set to commence in the summer of 2025, IR Maxoinversiones plans to start green hydrogen production in Puerto del Rosario using the H-TEC SYSTEMS ME450 electrolyzer. By generating their own energy, islands can alleviate the substantial costs associated with importing fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company said the scheme was part of its broader programme of waste and circularity commitments, which include a plan for all John Lewis product categories to have a 'buy back' or 'take back' solution by 2025, the creation of rental and resell options, and a target to halve its operational and customer food waste by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In his address to world leaders at the event, Johnson is expected to hail the new agreement - which reportedly has been signed by governments responsible for the 85 per cent of the world's forests - as an "unprecedented" step forward for efforts to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The world's largest coffee brand, which is owned by Swiss consumer goods giant Nestlé, today published its Nescafé Plan 2030, through which it is aiming to source 20 per cent of its coffee from regenerative agricultural methods by 2025, rising to 50 per cent by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

As such, BP said today that increasing investment in "non-oil and gas" would help the firm recoup losses and "diversify and improve the resilience of BP's cash flow". By 2025, more than a fifth of capital would be invested in "transition" businesses by 2025, it added.

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The City Fix

MAY 1, 2024

By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction targets and other measures that countries promise.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2020

And, announced in June among a series of recovery measures aimed at "building back greener" from the Covid-19 crisis, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a target to plant 75,000 acres - roughly equivalent to 30,000 hectares - of trees each year by 2025.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer’s commitment to inclusive growth means it is providing more people in all regions of the world with access to health care and food security, and developing solutions to environmental protection with a focus on decarbonization, climate adaptation, and biodiversity preservation. Learn more about them here. ###.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We are taking an important step towards creating a smarter and more resilient electricity system that will enable the massive transition to renewables that we need as we look to tackle the climate crisis.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 15, 2024

The Regulated Entities shall build up internal governance system, identify and assess risks and opportunities, evaluate the climate resilience, and disclose relevant information. Timeline for Implementation The Guidelines are set to apply to the fiscal year of 2025, meaning that Regulated Entities must publish SDRs by April 30, 2026.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In October, the CSB, a group of business leaders appointed to advise Defra on how businesses can achieve the government's 25 Year Environment Plan, launched the 'Get Nature Positive Campaign' to rally business efforts to protect biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

"Construction is rocket fuel for UK economic growth: every pound invested delivers a three-fold economic multiplier and the housebuilding sector provides jobs and vital economic resilience," he said. But as we accelerate building, we have to avoid stoking up a climate crisis that would be at least as serious as the Covid emergency.".

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

In response, the government stressed that the UK would be the first country in the world to make climate risk disclosure mandatory across the economy by 2025, and that it has updated the remit of all financial regulators to account for the country's 2050 net zero target.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how up its sustainability efforts.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears. I am confident that in due course, with resilience and determination, when it is safe to meet in-person again, we will hold these meetings and advance on our journey to Kunming and the successful adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.". "I

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Last year, the government said the decision to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops would support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025. Peatlands must be better protected as a matter of urgency."

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