Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Achieving climate goals will likely require tripling annual renewable capacity by 2030 and then scaling dramatically up to 2050. Supply chain issues (61%): Ensuring resilient and reliable supply chains is one of the foundations of scaling renewables quickly.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd has called on the Treasury to launch a review into the cost of climate impacts and the value of investing in resilience measures, noting that current levels of funding for flood and coastal defenses are nowhere near where they should be.

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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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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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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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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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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. This could result in a more distributed, localised food-production system that is more stable and resilient than the one it replaces, stated the study.

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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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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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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. Failure to manage this will undermine the resilience of the system and could lead to sustained high energy prices into the future.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

The policies are based on a detailed plan to decarbonize the country’s economy by 2050, which is aligned with the commitments of The Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Building resiliency. Strengthen the resilience of human and natural systems through adequate land and marine planning.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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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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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". 4/4 pic.twitter.com/lhQGTURjCh. "I

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The coronavirus crisis demonstrates the "critical need" for Europe to strengthen the resilience of its economy against climate and environmental threats, the European Commission said today, as it set the ball rolling towards finalising a new Sustainable Finance Strategy for the continent in 2020.

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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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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. An increased focus on adaptation would also help improve the resilience of health systems, it adds. “A

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

It said the fund would "emphasise investment" in companies with lower-carbon footprint, those transitioning their emissions to a Paris Agreement-aligned strategy, and those providing climate and environmental solutions, including on issues such as waste, pollution, water use, and biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to step up its climate adaptation and resilience efforts.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

To tackle the environmental challenges we face from climate change and biodiversity loss, it is crucial that domestic natural environment projects are able to attract private investment alongside support from the public sector," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

These outputs can now support innovative and bespoke climate-resilient policy solutions for a variety of regions in Africa. . The two spoke about the interlinked nature of security and sustainability, how the world must build resilience against serious climate risks, and how the U.S. General John E.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The extent of the climate impacts already baked-in to 2050 is "shocking", according to CCC chief executive Chris Stark. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

MEPs have called on the European Commission deliver a "massive" €2tr coronavirus recovery fund next week that prioritises the proposed Green Deal agenda to transform Europe into the world's first net zero continent by 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

As resilience takes more prominence post-coronavirus, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues CISL's Dr Gemma Cranston. This year biodiversity was expected to move into the spotlight - with a 'new deal for nature' being laid out at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in China.

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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. 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.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A clutch of sobering reports published this week that set out the threat posed to the global economy by nature and biodiversity loss have further bolstered the case for nation states and businesses to funnel investment into nature-based solutions that can slow escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.". At the same time, it is also well-recognised that forest conservation delivers significant biodiversity and ecosystem services co-benefits.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

In a major speech later, Emma Howard-Boyd, who is also interim chair of the Green Finance Institute, will warn that severe climate impacts must be more thoroughly considered in the planning and delivery of infrastructure in order to bolster the nation's resilience to global warming.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Investment in woodland creation is key to protecting our natural environment and achieving net zero by 2050," said Forestry Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith. Forestry Commission chair Sir William Worsley said the fund would help address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. "It

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