GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. It will monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. “Our

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This year was transformative for the space industry. While there are many predictions for the growth of the industry in 2025, three key themes stand out with particular excitement for the year ahead. These powerful models drive innovative technologies like ChatGPT and are reshaping our approach to intricate data challenges.

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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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Planet Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

We are proud to announce the formation of the Nature Tech Alliance, a new initiative poised to help companies tackle urgent biodiversity challenges. We, at Planet, are working with the other members to deliver insights for industries looking to make data-informed decisions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

Salo is a climate technology company that builds cutting-edge forest monitoring systems to measure Earth’s constantly changing ecosystems using artificial intelligence and multi-sensor Earth observation data. Salo Sciences’ global data on forest carbon stocks reveals tree-level insights.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It has been produced by renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, along with project partners, EDF Renewables and environmental DNA and nature intelligence expert, NatureMetrics. This project demonstrates the viability and scalability of eDNA as a solution to achieve both these objectives.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

There are risks to the long-term effectiveness of the government’s new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) policy, launched in February, according to a 17 May National Audit Office (NAO) report. Defra did not give local authorities additional money specifically to monitor or enforce on-site gains4.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Ugbaad Kozar, senior policy advisor at Carbon180, discussed these disparities and the power imbalance associated with carbon removal measures. REDD+ social safeguards have had mixed results ; the impact of the safeguards sometimes have been difficult to monitor and interventions made based on the safeguards had mixed results, she noted.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. Biological approaches, which leverage the power of photosynthesis to capture CO 2 , offer a few approaches for carbon removal.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 14, 2024

The recent strides in green hydrogen production have brought about a sea change in our approach to sustainable energy. The latter has the potential to rejuvenate oxygen-deprived ‘dead zones’ in our oceans, thereby fostering biodiversity and ecological balance.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 29, 2025

It’s one area where biodiversity is arguably treated above climate change as an issue. It is true that a protected species can block a development, and the biodiversity net gain regulations provides at least a funding stream for nature projects. This meant developments had to drive down energy usage to make that 10% viable.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

With its bountiful resources and strategic position, the country aims to cement its place as a leader in the clean energy transition. This ambition sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, each aspect contributing to the blueprint of a sustainable energy future.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI spurred clean firm power, Europe strengthened carbon markets, and emerging economies’ climate tech demand opened up. 🚗 Vertical: Energy came top in 2024 investment, up 12% to $9.4bn. Industry was down 29%, returning it to fourth place behind Food & Land Use. Nuclear and energy storage returned to dominance.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. Across 60 pilot projects the programme created an equivalent of 1.6 What is it?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Unlike other feedback systems designed to drive immediate response think of the life-saving equipment in intensive care units, or even a cars fuel gauge the tools we use to monitor climate resilience and risk are dangerously, and indefensibly, outdated. Imagine applying that principle to improve climate resilience. This isnt theoretical.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Global Initiative for Nature, Grids, and Renewables (GINGR) at COP28, aiming to empower governments, industries and the financial sector to achieve energy, climate and biodiversity targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

However, we also know that before widespread monitoring began, the UK’s biodiversity had already been highly depleted by centuries of habitat loss, unsustainable farming practices, development, and persecution. As a result, due to human activity the UK now has less than half of its biodiversity remaining.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

With East Anglia the fastest growing region in the UK, the wetlands initiative is a major step forward to improving resilience through the power of nature without the need for carbon-hungry infrastructure and additional chemical usage. Footage of a water vole was also recorded using trail cams.

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Grist

AUGUST 27, 2024

Oh, and they want to build it on the moon. “In Solar-powered, automated, and without need of human maintenance, the proposed lunar biorepository would house cryopreserved cells, stored at temperatures so cold that biological activity is suspended. Those looming threats are, in part, behind a grand vision a team of U.S.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This unlawful activity contributes significantly to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Planet provides high-frequency satellite imagery and data that offer a solution for illegal logging by helping officials monitor change across vast areas and respond quickly to criminal activity.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

The creators of the new Plant Atlas say it is “the most powerful statement ever produced on the state of our wild and naturalised plants“ Thousands of botanists from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) 1 have spent the last twenty years collecting data on changes in the British and Irish flora.

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Grist

JUNE 13, 2024

But if you ask solar-power enthusiasts, a reservoir is also not realizing its full potential. They could simultaneously gather energy from the sun and shade the water, reducing evaporation — an especially welcome bonus where droughts are getting worse. We’re just providing a structure that floats to mount that electrical system.”

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. billion people by 2050.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Red Eléctrica, Fundación Renovables and RGI (Renewables Grid Initiative) are joining forces on the Grids for Renewables project, aiming to address the energy transition in a holistic way, secure societal support for the construction of vital energy infrastructure and tap into demand-side management activities to optimise energy consumption.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Our technologies are designed to monitor and classify changes everywhere on Earth, every day, in high resolution.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

To avoid losses, the on-site mitigation program includes an industry-first implementation of an observer-led Shut Down on Demand (SDOD) system for priority species. The eight biodiversity monitors, who are predominately female, have been recruited from the surrounding communities.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

According to the article, “The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) analyzed the images and found the coastline in some areas in the bay had advanced about 200 meters offshore.” Within days after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, The Asahi Shimbun published a Planet satellite imagery of the seaside town. © 2022 Planet Labs PBC.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In Carbon Capture.

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