Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

By 2050 , global municipal solid waste is expected to rise by ~70% and reach a massive 3.4 Buy supplies in bulk to reduce packaging. You should also work with your supplier to reduce unnecessary plastic packaging and opt for plastic-free packaging alternatives. billion metric tons. Set Target Waste Reduction Goals.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Bande said Absolute Zero (a concept that the firm is socializing with its clients) is the long-term guidepost that businesses should navigate toward — it encourages companies to maximize their individual contributions toward the vision of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

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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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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 7, 2021

The Copernicus Masters ”See Change, Change the World” challenge is now open for submissions and everyone can apply with their ideas for a chance to win a free data package worth €125,000, technical and business support, and an exciting trip to San Francisco for Planet’s Explore 2022 Conference.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A host of global fashion brands and consumer goods retailers, including H&M, Ben & Jerry's and Stella McCartney, have today collectively committed to purchasing 550,000 tonnes of low carbon alternative fibres for textiles and packaging, in a move aimed at curbing supply chain deforestation. Every year, more than 3.2

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The deep peat soils of the biodiverse fens in Eastern England and the raised bogs found in upland areas hold eight times as much carbon as the equivalent area of tropical rainforest, it claims. Not only do our habitats capture carbon, but they provide many other benefits for biodiversity and the wellbeing of society," said Gregg.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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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. The company monitors environmental impacts across all aspects of the business, having already switched to 100% green electricity and making additional packaging optional for customers.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials. billion tonnes of CO 2e per year by 2050 – if no improvements in this sector are made. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The European Commission's latest package of classifications for sustainable finance activity published today have been labelled a "crucial" step in the EU's ongoing efforts to tackle greenwashing and meet its 2050 net zero goals by leading investment figures. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete roadmap on the table.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

A new environmental scoring system for food and drinks packaging is set to launch across select retailers and products this autumn, as part of a government-backed drive to help consumers make more environmentally friendly choices.

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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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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

Peatland plants and insects are as beautiful and important as the trees and biodiversity we find in forests and rewilded areas. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. This has to change. Unfortunately UK peatlands are in a bad state of health, but they can be restored relatively cheaply and easily.

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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. per cent by 2050, which the government estimates would add another 420,000 hectares of tree cover over the next 30 years. per cent to 17.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, urged the government to deliver on Ministerial promises - made repeatedly over the past few weeks ­- that the imminent stimulus package will feature a raft of green measures. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Speaking to members of a Citizen's Convention on Climate (CCC) on Monday, Macron said that a referendum would propose adding a specific clause addressing the need to tackle biodiversity, environment, and climate risks to Article 1 of the nation's constitution. Korea and Japan both have 2050 net zero targets, China has one for 2060.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

In particular, REN21 has urged leaders to make renewable energy uptake a key performance indicator for all national economic activities, arguing the move would catalyse the uptake of clean energy across all sectors of the economy while unlocking benefits for workers, public health, the climate and biodiversity. "A

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last year, the UK and New Zealand became two of the first countries in the world to commit to reaching net zero by 2050. I know that New Zealand is taking action too, with measures like the environmental jobs package, and your investment in conservation and biodiversity. And to work together across the Pacific.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Higher tree planting targets, a ban on peat-based garden compost, and corridors for biodiversity protection next to rivers are among a flurry of conservation measures expected to be unveiled by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) tomorrow, reports suggest.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

As part of a £166m industrial decarbonisation funding package announced this morning , the government earmarked over £30m for a series of five projects designed to deliver 'negative emissions' by enhancing the UK's natural carbon sinks. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate. French auto rescue package promises EV surge. New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. Officials have warned that the failure of biodiversity-focused lawmaking could leave Europe’s wider Green Deal plan to become carbon neutral by 2050 in jeopardy.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

In a statement to mark World Environment Day, the Prime Minister said that while countries were rightly focused on combatting the pandemic, it was critical not to lose sight of the need to protect the planet "from the devastating threat of climate change and biodiversity loss".

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nature-based climate solutions are critical for combating the increasingly severe impacts of global warming and should be a top priority for governments and businesses worldwide, with global climate adaptation costs expected to soar to $500bn a year by 2050, the UN has warned.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Legal & General has committed to making all the homes it builds operationally zero carbon by the end of the decade, a plan it says will slash customer energy bills and help the UK meet its 2050 net zero target. Yet on the basis of current Building Regulations and planning standards, none of these outcomes would be guaranteed.".

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2022

Sixty per cent of the world has set net zero targets for 2050 and we have just under 30 years to achieve those targets. Will a future generation of journalists and analysts be writing articles in 2050 praising the vision and intent of net zero, but lamenting the poor follow up? And there is a pressing reason to do so.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

These could range from installing energy saving lightbulbs and switching to electric vehicles to introducing cycle to work schemes for employees or taking steps to minimise packaging and waste, the government said.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

As with the government's ambition for net zero by 2050, delivering on climate resilience and nature recovery requires robust, consistent and trusted data. If we fail to identify and address greenwashing, we allow ourselves false confidence that we are already addressing the causes and treating the symptoms of the climate crisis.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The consultation comes ahead of the anticipated passage of the Environment Bill this autumn, which lays out a raft of measures to protect the environment, including the adoption of legally binding targets for enhancing biodiversity and expanding tree cover in the UK.

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