GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The tech titan has invested in protecting forests for some time , but last week it launched a new venture in collaboration with Conservation International that is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, restoring biodiversity and addressing other climate crises while also producing a financial gain for the company. . Pull Quote.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. While governments change, one thing remains constant: Space data truly shines when the public and private sectors come together.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It reflects contributions from hundreds of scientists, policymakers, ethicists, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and communities that could be disproportionately affected by climate change interventions. Informed Governance. Inclusive Public Participation.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. No wish list

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. In each case, government planning inspectors have been content to sign off plans without making tackling the climate emergency a central priority.

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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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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. Developers must improve the habitats they harm by a net 10%, ideally on-site.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2021

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. food policy. Farmers who participate in the Backyards program, which has expanded to include other villages, local government and private companies, have increased yields while reducing environmental impact. food policy.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 25, 2024

Renewables industry welcomes government funding to fill "critical knowledge gaps" on environmental and wildlife impacts of wind farm development, while also helping to get projects built. The post Wind farm handbook to help developers avoid brolgas, bats and other project-sinking biodiversity risks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take urgent action on the policies needed to deliver the energy transition. These include council led insulation programmes and the development of heat networks.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Figuring out mechanisms through policy to incentivize that targeting would be great.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In addition, 40% of survey respondents said current government policies are ineffective in accelerating renewable deployment, and these inhibiting government policies and regulations were cited as the number-one barrier to scale, with 77% of respondents identifying this challenge. Confluence across sectors is key.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Rate of endemic species' extinction could be slashed by a quarter if action is taken now, but policy delays will make this outcome more difficult to achieve and twice as expensive, report warns. If we take ambitious action now, we can bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2050," he said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Initially, we focused on palm oil supply chains and urged companies to adopt no-deforestation policies. In addition to continuing to work with new companies to adopt policies, we do a lot of work now to ensure companies update, improve and implement the policies they already adopted.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

People are understanding how much more the relationships between biodiversity, climate, inequality — may I add racial tension to that? They might have the government working against them with policies, which still is the case in many places," Polman said. They might not have the skill. They might not have the capabilities.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Now is the time for effective government policy interventions to deliver these commitments to protect our environment.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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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. Buck also cited the importance of government involvement to help ensure benefits are given equally.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated. The draft agreement highlights the importance of increasing financial flows that can protect biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

A growing number of businesses, governments and civil society organizations are coming together to drive the change through the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. percent gets collected and recycled. Boost economies.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation. Research projects aiming to boost biodiversity, capture greenhouse gas emissions and protect coastal environments are among those receiving a share of £9.2m

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Rashida La Lande, general counsel at Kraft Heinz, took on responsibility for the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy at the end of 2018. The environmental and, of course, the social are hugely important to us but we really start from the perspective of how can we design policy and reporting to maximize our result.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2021

Proposals will be scrutinised by governments ahead of COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming this autumn, where the final text is expected to be negotiated. The draft agreement highlights the importance of increasing financial flows that can protect biodiversity.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

MPs in Public Accounts Committee have urged government to “move on from aspirational words” and start “taking the hard decisions” to advance its environmental agenda.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the WEF’s “State of Finance for Nature” report released on 27 May. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A new report finds that an integrated approach to tackling biodiversity and climate change could unlock more effective solutions the interlocking crises. The level of interconnectedness between the climate change and biodiversity crises is high and should not be underestimated. "The

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Even if the UK gets back on track, the NZS will fail to achieve its goal unless key points are addressed by the Government” Far off-track on delivery—and even further off on ambition. The UK Government itself has warned that if we allow warming to rise above 1.5°C,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

license New research, released today (13 December) by Wildlife and Countryside Link, reveals that overstretched and under-resourced English Local Authorities have been struggling to meet legal deadlines to consider the nature recovery action they need to take and the policies to support this. Image credit: mouli choudari , CC BY 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Britain can do much more to help to save species from extinction and protect nature worldwide, peers have said as countries prepare for talks aimed at halting global biodiversity losses. A “clear and present danger” exists to life on earth from the loss of biodiversity, according to the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee.

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