Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. government has also committed about $407 billion of U.K.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Alexandra Township is a 20-square-block enclave in the heart of Johannesburg, South Africa’s northern suburbs. Established in 1902, the township was built to house 750,000 residents. Today, it is home to more than 1.2 Despite efforts to increase waste.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. I am optimistic that the world is "waking up" Corporations, governments and individuals are enduring the conversation and mobilizing around solutions aimed at producing enough nutritious food for our growing population in a sustainable manner.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2021

Community-based groups and civil society organisations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are urging multinational oil companies to keep off a new biodiversity-rich oil exploration block opened in Western Uganda’s region. . None of the companies or governments have yet to publicly respond to the organisations’ letter.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UK aid from the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund earmarked for six projects in fragile ecosystems around the world. Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund will invest in six of the most environmentally critical landscapes, spanning 18 countries across the globe, to help to combat climate change and protect rare and endangered species.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity. The way we produce our food is a big reason for this as well as overall biodiversity loss. ” The post REPORT: Wildlife loss is increasing rapidly.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We had more great speakers throughout the day: Megha Rajagopalan and Alison Killing , joined us for a deep dive into their Pulitzer Prize-winning in vestigative series exploring a new infrastructure built by the Chinese government for the mass detention of Muslims.

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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. Our governments must be held accountable for the commitments they make in reducing the temperature rise below 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. Environmental, Social , and Governance (ESG) have become the language of capital markets, expanding market value by maintaining value for future generations.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And with more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity under the care of indigenous people and local communities, they are key to understanding, monitoring, and addressing disease transmission. “We Lilian Pintea, JGI’s vice president of Conservation Science.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

government through Planet’s co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Robbie Schingler’s fireside chat with Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. government can work in collaboration to help ensure peace and security globally. Chance Saltzman (right).

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Prior to that, Shine worked for over two decades as an independent environmental lawyer and sustainable development consultant for NGOs, governments, and businesses, leading influential projects on biodiversity, climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, and conflict prevention and reconciliation.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Policy Exchange report details steps government could take to tackle the environmental and climate risks plaguing the global financial system. Caldecott urged governments attending this year's climate diplomacy events to agree to establish rules that would make all public finance reliant on recipients' sustainability performance.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

With a historic G7 summit rolling into Cornwall in just a few weeks' time, the CBI was proud to convene the B7 summit, of global business leaders from across the G7 countries along with India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea earlier this month. That demands even closer partnership between government and business.

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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. Today, the central government sent a right signal to prioritise employment and poverty alleviation, and not to support further energy sector expansion.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise. million hectares - an area roughly the size of the Netherlands - were humid tropical primary forests that are critical stores of carbon and hubs for biodiversity.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

1] A full list of members of the CCAG is as follows: Sir David King (Chair), Cambridge University – focus on alerting governments and institutions around the world to the dangers of the climate crisis and urgent need for climate repair.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government unveils proposals designed to help curb deforestation linked to demand for forest-related products from UK consumers. Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

Egypt’s Geographic Advantages in Green Hydrogen Development Egypt’s Strategic Location Egypt stands at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. Regulatory Framework and Government Support Legislation plays a significant role in setting the stage for green hydrogen initiatives.

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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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Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

Not much is known about him except that he was a local government official with a wife and daughter. According to a 2017 study , ebola outbreaks — which have also been linked to bats — in Central and West Africa were more likely to occur in areas that had recently been deforested. That has enormous health consequences.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

and United Arab Emirates governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and food systems to support climate action. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. climate talks in Egypt in November.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In a written statement published by Andrew Griffith, on behalf of Baroness Penn, the government argued more time was needed to finalise the taxonomy. The Government believes that there is benefit in reviewing its approach to taxonomy development to maximise the effectiveness of our sustainable finance agenda," the statement read.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” The voluntary agreements bring together Governments, businesses, local authorities, academics, NGOs, industry groups and citizens to take collaborative action, says WRAP. Seven water action projects are underway that span the UK, Kenya, South Africa and Spain.

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The City Fix

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking at more than 350 urban leaders and experts gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum, Dr. Cromwel Lukorito, Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, issued a simple.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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