Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

Over £9 million of funding will be available to help local authorities recruit additional ecologists and specialists for projects such as new housing developments, said the government. Many housing developers are already successfully operating Biodiversity Net Gain recognising the benefits for people and nature, said Defra.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To protect biodiversity on a meaningful scale, we need a clear national plan and regulations for the UK's built environment to drive industry action, argues UKGBC's Louise Hutchins

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2023

A new handbook aims to increase biodiversity in agriculture, by promoting innovative approaches to contract arrangements for government-funded payments to farmers. The handbook is the product of Contracts2.0, a four-year project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

National Highways and Manchester Metropolitan University aim to create “a highly detailed map of the habitats found alongside England’s busiest roads to help boost biodiversity” (image: drone photography of the M6 in Cumbria). Habitat mapping in the landscape surrounding National Highways’ land.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example the restoration of the UK’s degraded peatlands, which efficiently lock away carbon while hosting a unique array of biodiversity. Nature-based solutions should provide measurable benefits to biodiversity. Nature-based solutions should be designed and implemented in partnership with local communities and stakeholders.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

Green areas from which cut grass has been removed become increasingly nutrient-poor, which in the longer term leads to an uplift in biodiversity among plants and insects. The 4×4 vehicle pulls a Harsh drawbar trailer with grass collection box.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes. Looking back, the international community has repeatedly failed to reach most of its biodiversity targets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Group of eight NGOs and business groups warn current rules are allowing large numbers of developers to avoid paying into Biodiversity Net Gain schemes

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Renew Economy

JUNE 18, 2024

Andrew Forrest-owned wind farm has gained approval from the federal environment minister, in a decision that has sparked debate over the impact of wind turbines on biodiversity. The post Andrew Forrest wind farm gets federal green tick as debate rages over biodiversity threat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

UN Biodiversity Summit delivers launch of new Cali Fund, but fractious talks fail to deliver agreement on key finance issues

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 8 – Mandatory climate reporting is coming, as companies and governments coalesce around the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure. The post Tallying the financial risks of biodiversity loss appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s Brief: Featured: Carbon Markets Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’? Governments are. The post The Brief: UK marketplace aims for ‘net gains’ in biodiversity appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings Agents of Impact!

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 11, 2024

The climate crisis we know well; the second, less appreciated threat to humanity is biodiversity loss. We need solutions to this conundrum quickly, otherwise there will be lost opportunities, expensive mistakes and even more extinctions. Humanity faces two existential crises.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Group of eight governments, including the UK, France, and Germany, confirm fresh funding for biodiversity protection and restoration programmes

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2024

Business has a key role to play in turning global nature promises into action before, during and after the COP16 Biodiversity Summit, writes RSPB chief executive Beccy Speight

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tasmania's Liberal government wants the federal environment minister to "get on and approve" the contentious 900MW project, despite an ongoing legal challenge to its state environmental approvals. The post “Massive boost” or biodiversity disaster?

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JUNE 16, 2024

This creates unique ecological zones that are rich in biodiversity and essential to human livelihoods. The governance of these regions is thus of paramount importance. And here comes the question: How can effective governance bolster the … Continue reading → But they are also very vulnerable to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

The Government has broken its promise to reform farming post-Brexit. In its National Food Strategy published today (13 June), the Government’s commitment to provide a third of its farming budget for Landscape Recovery has been abandoned. The Government has watered down Environmental Land Management schemes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Government announces plan to host biodiversity conference as it courts controversy over plans to call for a 'global truce' at the upcoming COP29 Climate Summit

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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. The government provided either £26,807 or £43,4674 to each local authority to help them prepare in each of the two years proceeding launch.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As UK-led negotiations on fairer sharing of biodiversity data continue at COP16, leading pharma companies have allegedly lobbied government against proposals for a mandatory levy

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Grist

JANUARY 25, 2023

are as vulnerable to biodiversity loss as their unprotected counterparts. At the recent United Nations biodiversity conference, delegates from nearly 200 countries agreed to formalize 30X30. Unfortunately, our figures show that in the race to halt nature’s decline by 2030, the Government is limping backwards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Investors representing trillions of dollars in assets under management join forces at COP16 to call on governments worldwide for urgent action on the nature crisis

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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

A tree planting project in Liverpool and a plan to restore peatlands at the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire are among 50 initiatives sharing in government grants announced today with an eye on unlocking further private investment into nature restoration and climate action across England.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Global Environment Facility members debut new GBFF Council, as they agree to new biodiversity, climate, nature, and pollution funding

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. This approach not only reduces flood risk and helps tackle climate change, it can also benefit water quality, restore habitats and boost biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted the shortfalls of the currently purely voluntary approach.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

New tools aim to make it easier for developers to deliver overall improvements in biodiversity to compensate for their direct impacts on nature. Natural England this morning launched three new tools designed to help developers accurately measure biodiversity net gain and ensure new developments are "nature positive".

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Named the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, the new group will support British businesses as they try to tackle worsening biodiversity impacts and risks. A new coalition of British businesses launching today has pledged to work to reverse biodiversity loss and strengthen natural ecosystems in the areas in which they operate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A new progress report which reviews the effectiveness of central government support on local authority action on climate change and nature warns of a lack of progress that risks jeopardising national and local net zero and nature restoration targets. We need firm commitment and resources from government to address the climate crisis.”.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Putting off action to protect biodiversity will double the cost and result in the extinction of many more species when compared to acting now to curb global impacts, according to sobering findings published by Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum this morning. If action is delayed, it may not be feasible at all, it warns.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Food security and biodiversity conservation are two key challenges for many countries around the world. The simultaneous provision of food security and biodiversity conservation requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.

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