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

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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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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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. Our collaborators in the alliance each bring a unique set of knowledge and critical competencies to support this comprehensive biodiversity management and reporting offering.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And while those target dates are typically decades hence, they set the stage for activists, investors and other self-appointed watchdogs to monitor corporate progress toward their stated goals. That’s changing.

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Planet and NASA JPL are building the first two satellites, which are set to launch in 2023. within reach.”

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the need for climate action becomes more urgent, the ocean is gaining attention as a potential part of the solution. 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.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. Tropical forests, an important part of NCS, are some of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and must be protected.

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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. There’s a long history of Global South countries inheriting the burden of hosting projects that have benefited wealthier countries in reaching their climate targets," Kozar said. Buck said. .

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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

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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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

AI Takes Off AI was everyones favorite buzzword this year, but more than that, were only just beginning to realize its incredible value and staying power. Planet Labs PBC) In 2025, EO datasets will emerge as an invaluable resource to train AI models, strengthening the power of AIs usefulness to commercial and government users.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. ” “By harnessing the power of nature alongside our traditional flood defences, we can not only help keep communities safer, but also create wildlife havens and tackle the climate emergency.”

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Planet Pulse

JULY 22, 2021

Since our first contract with NASA in 2019, scientists have leveraged Planet imagery for a variety of research projects focused on climate change, biodiversity loss, and complex sustainability problems. This expands access on the existing contract that currently supports NASA and NASA funded researchers.

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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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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. But carbon emissions?

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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 These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change. The food and beverage sector is therefore seeking to lower climate risk in its supply chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New research will monitor the contribution of new native woodland in England towards mitigating the worst effects of climate change, such as flooding. The research has the power to be a game changer when it comes to how such a new site can combat the extreme effects of climate change.

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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. Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Today marks a major milestone for global ocean science, management and biodiversity conservation. Coral reefs hold the largest amount of marine biodiversity out of any oceanic ecosystem and they provide an abundance of ecosystem services supporting the global economy by providing fishing stocks, real-estate storm protection, and tourism.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

“Sustainable agriculture plays a consequential role in slowing climate change by sequestering carbon and increasing biodiversity, yet practices today often counter these benefits by neglecting soil health and relying too heavily on fertilizers and pesticides,” said Planet CEO and co-founder Will Marshall.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

L earn how governments and organizations leverage broad area management to monitor change across vast geographies and timescales. This approach enables governments and organizations to gain insights into various natural processes and human activity, such as environmental changes, land use, and infrastructure development.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In a period of planetary crises and transformational change, the world needs to create pathways to more sustainable futures as never before. And how do we ensure that the power of these technologies are made broadly accessible? 11:15 am Monitoring Ecosystems and Protecting Biodiversity from Space.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federal civilian agency funded researchers under this program since 2018 and we look forward to continuing to help power this community’s research of our changing Earth. Today, researchers funded by any U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Danish renewables giant Ørsted has agreed a five year global partnership with conservation charity WWF to explore and establish means of ensuring offshore wind developments help to benefit marine biodiversity. However, if done right, it can support and enhance ocean biodiversity and create a net-positive biodiversity impact," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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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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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2021

NetCarbon i s a French startup that has the aim to use space technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence to deliver carbon knowledge and have a big impact on climate change. This is an answer to two issues that are close to our hearts: tackling climate change and developing sustainable agriculture.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

Future Tanager imagery will be analyzed by expert scientists at Carbon Mapper for methane and CO2 source detection and quantification, meanwhile we at Planet will commercialize the hyperspectral data for a variety of use cases including defense and intelligence monitoring, biodiversity assessments, mineral mapping, and water quality assessments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Plus, today's ethics-conscious consumers won't accept inaction.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. Food production benefits are relevant, too, given that crop failure is a significant negative impact of climate change, devastating communities and forcing migration.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services states that approximately one million plant and animal species are under threat of extinction worldwide due to human-induced climate change. Schematic of glacier retreat and the emergence of post-glacial ecosystems.

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