Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 13, 2021

The plan will also protect at least 30% of the world's oceans and land to achieve significant climate crisis mitigation by 2030. CBD) has set out a plan to reverse ecological destruction, cut down extinction rates and promote human coexistence with nature.

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Grist

JANUARY 25, 2023

are as vulnerable to biodiversity loss as their unprotected counterparts. The report comes amid a global push to protect 30 percent of the planet’s land and water by 2030, known as the 30X30 plan. At the recent United Nations biodiversity conference, delegates from nearly 200 countries agreed to formalize 30X30.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Putting off action to protect biodiversity will double the cost and result in the extinction of many more species when compared to acting now to curb global impacts, according to sobering findings published by Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum this morning. If action is delayed, it may not be feasible at all, it warns.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes. Looking back, the international community has repeatedly failed to reach most of its biodiversity targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.

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POWER Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

This June, the European Council formally adopted a first-of-its-kind regulation that sets out to restore at least 20% of the European Union’s (EU’s) land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of The post EU Mandates Biodiversity Restoration, Setting Up New ‘Green’ Requirements Alongside ‘Clean’ Ones for Power (..)

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Funded by Horizon Europe, NATURE FIRST brings together 12 global partners to improve biodiversity and protect the habitats of many species which are being threatened by human activity. Claire Gwinnett, Professor of Forensic and Environmental Science, explained: “The overall aim is to halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity in Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

The UK government said nature-positive developments were moving a step closer on 27 July as it announced additional government support to enable the rollout of Biodiversity Net Gain. Many housing developers are already successfully operating Biodiversity Net Gain recognising the benefits for people and nature, said Defra.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We chat with Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Corporate Networks about the new Corporate Roadmap 2030 , a blueprint for strategy, policy action and systems change. How to add considerations for equity and biodiversity into renewables procurement? You can read both stories here and here. The social side of energy procurement.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Biodiversity experts are ringing the alarm bells. Human activity has altered nearly three-quarters of all land, The post Biodiversity summit aims to increase urgency and financing to avert ecosystem collapse appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. A million species are at risk of extinction in as little as a decade.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

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. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2024

Nature 2030 releases new report including a roadmap for how local councils can boost Britain's biodiversity through improved road verge management

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Nature — by which I mean the land, biodiversity, water and ocean we all depend on — is reaching a point of no return. We need to halve emissions by 2030, and we need to reverse nature loss. Biodiversity. However, climate action alone is no longer enough to fend off the multiple environmental crises that our planet is facing.

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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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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. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two aims among several being championed by a panel of international experts appointed to help the UN reach the goal of a clean ocean by 2030. Image credit: The Ocean Agency. Interim objectives for 2025. Secure major financial commitments. “By

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. It has, of course, made achieving those goals by 2030 a whole lot harder (and it was already very hard). Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. Now it is 2021.

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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

MAY 28, 2021

New study appears to find that a tripling of current investments into nature-based solutions is needed by 2030 to tackle the climate crisis, otherwise there will be a $4 trillion financing gap. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. A total investment of $8.1

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

Welcome to RESTORD 2030. RESTORD 2030 is founded on patterns that now govern development and infrastructure. This then, is RESTORD 2030. RESTORD is a vibrant small to medium sea board city, at the foot of the Central Mountains with a Mid-European climate. It has a population of 102,000.

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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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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Global construction materials giant sets out raft of new biodiversity and water goals, making it just one of a handful of multinationals to adopt science-based nature targets. For example, the firm has committed to equipping all its sites with water recycling systems and ensuring that three-quarters are 'water-positive' by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Sella and Perkol-Finkel’s invention, ‘Concrete technology to encourage marine biodiversity,’ was judged by a panel of former award winners based on its contribution towards technical progress, social and sustainable development and economic prosperity. each year to 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 16, 2025

For me, this is a priority, an ardent obligation that must be pursued and expanded: plan the transition by finalising our low-carbon strategy; preserving our biodiversity; to produce, but in a carbon-free way, thanks to new technologies.” ” “I am thinking, in particular, of our energy policy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Working towards a circular economy helps protect human health and biodiversity in many ways, including by making better use of natural resources (protecting water and land), and by mitigating the climate crisis. Boost economies.

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BloombergNEF

OCTOBER 21, 2024

October 22, 2024, London: The gap between current biodiversity finance and future needs has widened to $942 billion, as increased investment has failed to keep pace with inflation, finds BloombergNEF (BNEF) in its latest Biodiversity Finance Factbook.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. With additional commitments between now and 2030, we are proud to play a role in combatting climate change and discovering a more sustainable way to farm.".

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The scale and scope of the climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality challenges facing corporate leaders is extensive. "[We] Only about 10 percent of companies have climate commitments that are approaching seriousness, and nature loss needs to stop by 2030, he pointed out. To stay below a 1.5

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The hottest trend of the year was the electrification of transportation, which is on the precipice of a major upswing: Less than 1 percent of fleet vehicles were electric at the beginning of the year, but that number is expected to grow to 12 percent by 2030. . Media Source. Shutterstock. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The findings are published as the COP28 presidency pushes for global commitments to triple renewable energy by 2030, with the report outlining the real-world challenges that will need to be overcome to achieve these ambitions. C above pre-industrial levels.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Speaking during a virtual media briefing detailing its ambitious new climate plan — which includes an interim goal of halving its baseline of 92 million metric tons in annual greenhouse gas emission by 2030 — Schneider said many of its investments would be offset by operational and structural efficiencies.

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