GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. Learn more: Food Navigator spoke with the startup that’s " expanding the definition of what a food crop is.". emissions. . Food & Agriculture. Featured Column.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This will bring additional benefits by discouraging the burning of whole trees, as recommended in the EU Biodiversity strategy. Buildings: the current EU definition[1] of nearly zero energy buildings (NZEB) has led to different definitions by Member States across the EU. Yet, to contribute to limiting global warming to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In late June, prospective miners, DeepGreen, finally admitted in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, that “impacts on biodiversity and the ocean ecosystem cannot, and may never be, completely and definitively known” and that “it is unknown whether the impact of nodule collection on global biodiversity will be less significant (..)

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

We've seen how the events of the world can change that definition for a company very, very quickly, which I think is one of the very important messages here of why GRI and SASB need to work together.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The report’s findings also echo earlier analyses that companies’ vague definitions of ‘regenerative’ – which can encompass a wide range of nature-friendly farming techniques such as no-till and organic farming – are undermining accountability.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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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. Earlier this month, Planet entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The study, which looks at how Europe's top 25 banks are faring against eight different climate and biodiversity-related metrics, paints a picture of a sector whose efforts to remedy its extensive environmental footprint remain patchy at best, and grossly negligent at worst. Moreover, no bank demonstrates leading practice on all issues.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. I think the headline would be: Don’t work alone," Yoann Regent, biodiversity and animal welfare specialist with Kering, told me in an interview. Palm oil plantation at the edge of a rainforest. Many promises, limited followthrough. Here’s what we’re up against.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 20, 2020

Along with biodiversity loss, climate change is considered to be the greatest threat the world faces. While academics have been at the forefront of efforts to acknowledge and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises, most businesses and governments have not been doing enough. Subscribe in a reader

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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

APRIL 26, 2022

Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. Water is one of the nine regulators of the state of the Earth system that are included in the framework, and is the sixth boundary that scientists have assessed as being transgressed.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans – a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality. at the surface and 18.6% in deep waters since 1980. Lead author Stephen F. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Science, technology, best practice, and new approaches are converging in such a way that we can be more confident and optimistic than ever before that NbS can be deployed at scale to deliver benefits for climate, biodiversity and local communities and Indigenous Peoples, all at the same time.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We believe we can't wait for consensus definitions to start making progress. The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Without agreed-upon definitions, it makes it even harder for companies to prove they are making good on their commitments.

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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. A key reason they have been underappreciated is the lack of definitive data capturing their size and value.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

These have been followed by biodiversity targets, science-based targets for emissions reductions, net zero emissions targets, and targets for regenerative production systems or circular product lifecycles. In the past decade, hundreds of companies have set ambitious no-deforestation targets.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Technically speaking, the literal definition of absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature that’s theoretically possible. Included in that should be strategies addressing biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle, she noted. How might Absolute Zero apply to your own strategy?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Prime Minister is being urged by his own father to establish a target to reverse the decline of species and habitats into law, as part of a major campaign launched this morning geared at tackling escalating rates of biodiversity loss in the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. Since then, they have agreed that this kind of biomass power station no longer meets their definition of low-carbon electricity for the purpose of new subsidy awards.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value. It responds. Big time.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

At COP26 in Glasgow, the crucial role forests play in stabilising our climate, protecting biodiversity and providing economic opportunity came into sharper focus than ever before," he said. This diagnostic tool is a big step forward," said Robin Chazdon, Professor of Tropical Forest Restoration at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Yousefi says French definitions are much more restrictive than those in Brazil, but they wanted to make the case “very clean cut.” “We We wanted to be absolutely sure that the areas that we picked would for sure fall under the French law’s definition of illegal deforestation,” Yousefi says.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 7, 2025

Read more about methodology and definitions at the bottom of this post.  Our definition of climate tech comes with two filters: 1) climate impact and 2) climate vertical.   2024 Update TLDR Climate tech venture and growth investment totaled $30bn, down 14% from 2023 as deal count holds A new normal.

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Grist

MAY 7, 2024

In fact, parasites are by definition bad for their hosts, But today, more scientists are starting to think about parasites as forces for good. “I I couldn’t believe that I’d gotten that far in my biology education and no one had ever mentioned to me that parasites are incredibly biodiverse, ubiquitous, everywhere.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to its role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestation. While it hasn't changed the direction, it's definitely accelerated. For instance, our climate work.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The consultation seeks to make a clear link between the current Covid-19 crisis and biodiversity loss, climate change, and human activity, arguing that all of these factors make devastating pandemics and resulting threats to public health and the economy far more likely.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

In the EU, there was a decline in absolute terms over the period of 13 per cent, owing to revised definitions of sustainable investment that have become embedded into legislation as part of the European Sustainable Finance Action Plan, according to the report.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

It embraced regenerative principles and definitions, mandated regenerative design, construction, facility operation and technologies and successfully scale jumped into an exemplary regenerative city. It embraced, and adapted, regenerative programmes such as the Living Building Challenge, Well Build Standard and Building with Nature. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

As with many companies heavily dependent on nature for product ingredients, Estée Lauder Companies is developing biodiversity action plans and becoming far more attuned to it role in deforestation, afforestation and reforestions. While it hasn't changed the direction, it's definitely accelerated. For instance, our climate work.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits. An unnamed Whitehall source told the FT last week that "nothing is definite yet but from my vantage point I would bet on [COP26] being cancelled pretty soon".

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

These themes are not definitive — when we invest, we look for transformative teams and technologies, areas ripe for innovation, and where we can make the most impact. Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. Climate Resilience. We aim to: Ensure 24/7 renewable power generation and storage.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

That’s definitely alarming, especially given all the commitments and attention towards forests.”. Tropical primary forests, for example, are critically important both in terms of maintaining biodiversity and removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. While boreal forests — those found throughout the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She is also chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convener of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands KC and Dior Fall Sow. It’s no coincidence that those indigenous cultures have time and again, proved to be the best guardians of the richest biodiversity on the planet.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The current definition of corporate sustainability in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “The property of being environmentally sustainable; the degree to which a process or enterprise is able to be maintained or continued while avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources.” – Oxford , How sustainable is sustainability?

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. I can tell you that the real number is definitely higher,” he said. Now, the researchers say that number has remained virtually unchanged.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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