Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In certain markets and sectors, the impact of low carbon projects on local wildlife, biodiversity and communities is triggering a rise in ‘green on green’ conflicts, causing clashes between renewable projects and the local environment.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. percent gets recycled and used again. We would need 1.5 Earths to sustainably support our current resource use.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As part of its long-term strategy, Shell declared a net-zero emissions target by 2050 back in April. . Broadly focused on the fossil fuels company's digital transformation, the applications being built collaboratively by the two companies are aimed at measuring carbon emissions — both Shell's and those of its suppliers and customers.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Climate change is on course to slash up to 18 per cent off global GDP by 2050, making the world trillions of dollars poorer if mitigating action is not taken and global temperatures soar to 3.2C By 2050, the world population will grow to almost 10 billion people, especially in regions most impacted by climate change. down to below 2C.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion over the next five years to meet its net-zero by 2050 aspirations. A deeper commitment to biodiversity, through a multicropping initiative and the use of more grain varieties (such as spelt and oats) in its recipes. Heather Clancy. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00.

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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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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 26, 2023

Dave Webb, a biodiversity specialist at the Environment Agency and chair of the London Rivers Restoration Group, said: “Restoring and rewilding London’s rivers is a no-regret action that we can take now to reduce the impact of extreme events and the long-term effect of the climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality. Global food security remains threatened as many farmers struggle to afford sufficient phosphorus fertiliser for their crops.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Achieving climate goals will likely require tripling annual renewable capacity by 2030 and then scaling dramatically up to 2050. For this to happen, the world must wake up and attendees must come to COP28 ready to join forces to help remove these barriers or risk meaningful progress slipping through our fingers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Coffee requires huge amount of resources to cultivate and is typically farmed in tropical and subtropical areas that are home to the world's greatest stores of forest carbon sinks and biodiversity. Meanwhile, global coffee production is expected to double by 2050 to meet soaring global demand.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2021

The EU Green Deal , Europe’s ambitious sustainability strategy, outlines a path forward to becoming the first climate neutral continent by 2050. In tandem, Europe has also launched a new 2030 Biodiversity Strategy which requires Member States to commit to important targets to restore biodiversity. The panel included: .

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

C of heating by 2050, unless vital action is taken to rapidly reduce the ecological impacts of housing. Researchers estimate that by 2050 12% of the carbon budget for 1.5°C As well as potentially conflicting with England’s carbon budget, housing expansion also may well conflict with England’s national biodiversity targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Spinoff benefits could include improved biodiversity; flood and erosion mitigation; increased crop yields (important in terms of a growing global population); better animal health and welfare; a reduced need for artificial fertilisers and therefore less pollution; and enhanced nutritional value of food produced.

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Soil Carbon Investment Energy Monitor 245

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Britain’s cities need urgent transformation in the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer spaces for citizens, according to a study from E.ON and the UK Green Building Council.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. COP15 biodiveristy summit braced for third Covid-19 delay.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. Housing, transport, business and industry generate 62% of our carbon emissions. Both objectives are important, but there is a stark difference in emphasis.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

However, Beyond energy: monetising biomethane’s whole system benefits 1 shows that ‘in 2030, the whole system benefits of biomethane production in the EU27 + UK could range from €38-78 billion per year, rising to €133-283 billion by 2050.’ HRS DCS (Digestate Concentration System) for improved management and handling of digestate.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Over-reliance on nitrogen fertilizers is leading to the collapse of soil biodiversity. The collapse of soil biodiversity is happening at microscopic scale. Soil plays a major part in the carbon capture cycle. Trees capture carbon monoxide, then transmit the carbon through to microbes in the soil, where it is held.

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Soil Climate change Agriculture Carbon 288

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The report considers what shape the world will be in by 2050. billion, by 2050, ‘2050 Scenarios: Four Plausible Futures’ depict how we could live in 2050, based on the intersection between our planet’s health and societal conditions. With the global population expected to increase by 2 billion people, from 7.7

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Health Climate change Sustainability Biodiversity 147

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Trees, woodlands and forests play a vital role removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and nurturing biodiversity. “Expanding the UK’s trees, woodlands and forests will play an important role in realising the government’s ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,” says a government press release.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

billion people by 2050. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. The problem is vast. In our world of finite resources, we need to revolutionize the way we produce and consume food to ensure enough nutritious food for 9.8

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A few options for increasing the ocean’s capacity to store carbon also may provide co-benefits, such as increasing biodiversity and reducing acidification. The ocean absorbs just under one-third of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, contributing to a rise in ocean acidification.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While 2050 may seem distant, without an immediate step-change in implementation the UK will miss its 2030 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 68% and be off track for the mid-century goal of net zero. The review highlights the energy policy priorities for the next government – whether Conservative, Labour or a coalition.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Writing in the journal Building and Environment , the group said that, while the concept is relatively new, it seems to open other potential benefits, in relation to things like biodiversity. Living walls can offer improved air quality, noise reduction and elevated health and well-being.

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Soil Biodiversity Carbon Sustainability 147

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Continuing current rates of environmental degredation will result in costs of at least £368bn a year, the WWF's Global Futures report calculates, leading to total losses of £8tr by 2050. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Cleaning up the power sector accounts for almost half of emissions avoided between today and 2050, compared with a no-transition scenario where there is no further action on decarbonization. Figure 4: Global energy investment and spending across 2024-2050, Economic Transition Scenario and Net Zero Scenario. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Fairsnape

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose. 2030 is far more important than 2050. Then we have to reach net-zero around 2050. NFB Transforming Construction: zero carbon by 2050.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral Construction 112

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Scientists said the past failure to rapidly cut emissions means some CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere to reach net zero by 2050 and halt the climate crisis. degrees Celsius without both cutting emissions and removing billions of metric tons of CO2 a year by 2050. The £30 million ($42.5 Large-scale tree planting.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The editorial, published today in over 230 medical, nursing, and public health journals across the world, demands international coordinated action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health. This is an overall environmental crisis.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Chinese hosts of crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit announce new October date, lining up a crunch autumn for global efforts to avert environmental disaster. A six week period this autumn could go a long way to determining humanities prospects over the next century and beyond.

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