Charged

JANUARY 3, 2025

The region has the potential to be almost self-sufficient in supplying cobalt for EVs in 2040. Recycling could replace the need for primary ores, avoiding the need to build 12 new mines globally by 2040: four lithium, three nickel, four cobalt and one manganese.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Greater use of nature such as rewilding and more green spaces such as rooftop gardens and green walls, as well as sustainable drainage systems mimicking natural processes while enhancing biodiversity. Delivering the changes needs a multi-pronged approach centred on re-training the energy industry workforce to specialise in new energy systems.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Together the two organisations say they are working to maximise the biodiversity benefits of around 5000 hectares – an area broadly equivalent to the size of the city of Dundee – to lock up greenhouse gases and ensure visitors and local communities can continue to enjoy the natural environment in the area. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

New goals in support of net zero by 2040 target are to take in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The new targets build on the retailer's overarching goal to reach net zero for its own operations by 2040, which it announced in January 2020. By aligning its goals with a 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

“By applying the circular solutions outlined in this report, we can reduce the use of scarce materials and dramatically cut emissions—thereby fighting climate change and biodiversity loss,” said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips and Co-Chair of the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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Recycling Recycling Fossil fuels Climate change 238

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. More broadly, the company is moving toward a "climate positive" value chain by 2040, embracing science-based targets. Ilham Kadri, CEO, Solvay; Brussels. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Fairsnape

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So, we now plant more trees, as it’s the thing to do, virtue signalling, for hope, for biodiversity, for futures, for carbon, if our trees reach maturity. Climate and biodiversity emergencies have been declared, manifestos outline promises, and we will vote. There is hope, in the days before our wet and dark winter election.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As such, the NAO's report today recommends the government draw up a coherent new set of objectives, with measurable outcomes for 2030 and 2040, in order to offer a clear plan long term for improving the UK's environment. He added that the findings echoed the work of the EAC as part of its inquiry into biodiversity and ecosystems. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Dubbed Connecting the Dots: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency , the report argues that plastic pollution must be treated alongside biodiversity loss and climate change as a planetary emergency.

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Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 88

Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Based at the University's Newport campus, the School of Sustainable Food and Farming claims to be the first of its type in the UK, offering both undergraduate and short courses on regenerative farming methods for livestock, soil health, and biodiversity to help equip students with skills in climate-friendly food production.

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Sustainability Agriculture Soil Biodiversity 94

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Among a flurry of fresh commitments today, the government said it wanted all internal UK plane journeys to generate net zero emissions, and new petrol and diesel trucks to be removed from sale - both by 2040 - on the path to delivering net zero rail, aviation, shipping and road vehicles sectors by 2050.

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Transportation Government Aviation Policy 83

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Their commitment played no small part in several watershed developments, including Amazon’s pledge to go carbon neutral by 2040 and Jeff Bezos’s $10B commitment to fight climate change. Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small.

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Climate change Carbon-neutral Agriculture Retail 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2024

. - by James Murray ( @james_bg ) Study: Policy interventions could cut plastic pollution 96 per cent by 2040 Global action across the plastics lifecycle could nearly eliminate plastic pollution by 2040, a new OECD report claims.

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Plastics Pollution Biodiversity Resilience 41

Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But long-term targets on water quality, air pollution, biodiversity, and waste prompt calls for greater ambition from environmental and business groups. The government described PM2.5

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Government Pollution Biodiversity Waste 99

Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The proposal includes transforming a site in Ealing into a "flourishing and immersive wetland", which according to the Fund could provide "a biodiverse ecosystem for plants and animals". Amazon is a co-founder of and the first signatory to The Climate Pledge - a commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.

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Energy Monitor Biodiversity Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 69

Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Bennett said it was critical to drive integrity into the nature-based solutions market, which is seen as a key tool for driving investment in nature restoration projects that can meet climate goals and protect biodiversity. "We This is to be applauded."

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

When the National Farmers Union announced its ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the industry by 2040, it took many by surprise. At the time there was a lot of surprise," NFU president Minette Batters of the 2040 net zero announcement, which she made at a farming conference in Oxford last year. "I

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Scientists say the raft of green measures, aimed at tackling spiralling climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, are crucial for the future of Europe’s food supply. Bayer told DeSmog that as “the leading agriculture technology company, we have a direct interest in battling climate change and reversing biodiversity loss”.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Law Business Energy Monitoring 145

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Offshore renewables are proposed to become the third most important energy resource in the European power system, providing 18% of the dispatched energy by 2040 and 2050 – sufficient to supply up to 55 million households in 2040. Moreover, the size of this task and the speed required is huge.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Many of the things that might limit the viability of that as a mitigation technology are not necessarily included in the model, including competition with food, competition with ecosystems, the need to meet biodiversity goals, issues with land rights with respect to indigenous land titles,” Matthews told Grist.

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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. This Pledge is about doing all we can to help our growers and we can't thank them enough for all their work.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Our net zero 2040 commitment is one example of our efforts, and we will be transparently reporting our progress along the way.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In addition to on-site renewables and recycled cladding, the site features a Drive-Thru lane made from recycled tyres, kerb stones made from recycled plastic bottles, and a biodiversity garden and nature trail. Customers also have access to an array of on-site EV charging points.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Ginkgo Sustainability is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. Well before 2040, Concentric aims to become a net-zero business.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alliance of leading truckmakers pledge to switch to zero emission models by 2040. A group of Europe's largest truckmakers have this week pledged to stop selling vehicles that produce emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than originally planned. All the green business news from around the world this week.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Based at the University's Newport campus, the School of Sustainable Food and Farming claims to be the first of its type in the UK, offering both undergraduate and short courses on regenerative farming methods for livestock, soil health, and biodiversity to help equip students with skills in climate-friendly food production.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Yesterday the government not only unveiled its long-delayed Transport Decarbonisation Plan - which was originally slated to emerge late last year - but also launched crucial consultations on delivering net zero aviation by 2050 and phasing out sales of fossil fuel trucks by 2040, among other proposals.

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Transportation Government Aviation Policy 88

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Urban forestry project in Italy is first to benefit from tech giant's nature-based solutions, biodiversity and community wellbeing funding programme. However, it remains unclear as to whether the carbon captured by trees planted through the reforestation project would be counted as offsets towards Amazon's 2040 net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

The sequenced roadmap published today sets a series of goals and milestones that need to be met to deliver on its headline commitments, incorporating government policies such as the Future Homes Standard and Biodiversity Net Gain.

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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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Biodiversity Climate change Global warming Retail 45

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 45

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Plastic production has risen exponentially in recent decades, having doubled since 2000 to 400 million tonnes a year worldwide, a figure which is expected to double again by 2040 unless urgent action is taken to end society's addiction to unnecessary plastics.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Though ENGIE has ambitious renewable development objectives , it plans to expand its LNG terminals in Europe, is one of the top European developers of gas power plants globally, and has agreed to import American shale gas beyond 2040. Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Alongside climate change, we are also facing a biodiversity crisis. We're now well on the way to de-carbonising our own UK operations by 2027, and achieving our 2040 net zero target, validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative with help from the global climate consultancy, the Carbon Trust. Vodafone is a great example.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

As recent analysis grimly shows, all global cotton growing regions will be exposed to increased risk from at least one climate hazard by 2040. Decisions will need to be made about whether land is used for food, feed, fuel, fibre, or for vital carbon capture and biodiversity solutions.

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