DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Under thundery tropical skies, and amid ever more dire warnings on the precarious state of the world’s ecosystems, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference is unfolding in Colombia. Credit: Rachel Sherrington Corporations have turned out in large numbers at COP16, as they did at the last biodiversity summit in 2022.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 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. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

When people are sick, suffering and dying — with little certainty about when or how it will end — how can we be expected to focus on a project deadline, a business meeting or a PowerPoint presentation? What can businesses in B2C industries do to ensure the health and safety of their employees and customers?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

R oughly 45 percent of all global flights meet this standard — presenting a massive opportunity. . Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. If this year has shown us anything, it’s that the health of our planet and the health of humans are inextricably linked. .

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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 is relying on a private sector market for biodiversity units emerging but does not know how rapidly it can scale up or satisfy demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage.

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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

APRIL 9, 2021

Said Pettersen at the 2020 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, "As a mother of a young child, it is incredible how concerned you become over the future of the planet, its biodiversity, air quality and climate. According to the National Golf Foundation 2019 Industry Report , there are about 15,000 golf facilities and 24 million golfers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A group of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), in New South Wales, will lead a symposium on the impact of climate change and other environmental challenges on Antarctica, and what can be done to preserve the continent’s biodiversity in response to these threats.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B , presents a mixed picture of ocean health. Warming coupled with food-web dynamics will be like putting marine biodiversity in a blender.”. Previous studies of shifting habitat ranges focused on the direct impacts of climate change on individual species.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2020

A presentation from WUN founder Hayley Monks focussed on personal development and the importance of allocating time to assess your own career. Mental health and wellbeing was also a strong theme of the event, which welcomed Lisa Lloyd, a chartered psychologist, psychotherapist, trainer and consultant at It’s Time for Change.

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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Louis, Missouri, the focus of the WWF study, two-thirds of electricity comes from fossil fuel plants that pump out health-damaging particulates and planet-warming carbon dioxide. They use less space, which can free up land for biodiversity. At present, indoor farms in urban areas profitably can grow leafy greens but little else.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Rivers are crucial parts of the global water cycle, contain important biodiversity, and are essential for human health. The findings were published on 24 September in the journals Global Change Biology and Ecological Solutions and Evidence. Improvements to waste water plants should be implemented along with more regulations.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and published in early September in Nature Communications , finds that large gains in conservation are possible by focusing on areas home to exceptional biodiversity and species with high levels of evolutionary distinctiveness and global endangerment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

World leaders announce new biodiversity commitments as they declare upcoming nature summit a global priority. Leaders said an ambitioius new global accord was urgently required "in the face of an escalating nature crisis that is threatening health, food security, and livelihoods, while undermining climate action and sustainable development".

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

For example, we do not source any raw palm oil, but it is present in tiny amounts of a vast number of products that we purchase, thus our ability to influence producers is limited," she wrote. I think the headline would be: Don’t work alone," Yoann Regent, biodiversity and animal welfare specialist with Kering, told me in an interview.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. COP15 biodiveristy summit braced for third Covid-19 delay.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 5, 2020

Some additional highlights include Global Landscape Forum Bonn Digital Conference (see details below) and Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Online Event. The host country for this year's World Environment Day is Columbia Events featuring experts on biodiversity issues from across the globe.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

A biodiverse microbiome right at home In total, the researchers found 747 different genera within 25 bacterial phyla. Some species of genera found in domestic microwaves, such as Klebsiella, Enterococcus and Aeromonas, may pose a risk to human health.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Commentators seemed unanimous that the new requirements were a step in the right direction, if a little unambitious, with a government impact assessment acknowledging that 10% Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) may not go beyond “no net loss”. Green roof systems and bio-active concrete were also mentioned as supportive of biodiversity improvements.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Chemicals are present in the deepest parts of the ocean and in all manner of marine biota, and concentrations of many of the most dangerous chemicals in the marine environment continue to rise. Much more research is needed to determine the damage that many chemicals inflict on the marine environment. A coordinated approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Launch of the first large-scale environmental DNA project using citizen science to monitor the health of rivers. The 1000 Rivers eDNA project is a non-profit initiative launched by NatureMetrics and partners to develop a database of 1000 rivers around the North Atlantic.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

Addressing the challenges that the 2020 Novel Corona virus Covid19 presented, RESTORD embraced regenerative economic thinking to shape the current city. Coming out of the Covid19 period many streets and highways were redesigned and repurposed for human powered access, on foot and on cycle, to address both health and air quality.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2021

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises, with annual finance needing to triple by 2030, according to the UN-led study.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

This year biodiversity was expected to move into the spotlight - with a 'new deal for nature' being laid out at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in China. In light of the pandemic, October's Biodiversity Summit has been postponed, and its development of a new 10-year framework for biodiversity will have to wait.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

The first is the microbial community, which is hugely important in determining biodiversity and ecosystem health.” Aquatic microbial community can be defined as a mix of co-occurring, and potentially interacting, microbes, present in a defined habitat in space and time. We will also be investigating the fate of the plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The strategy calls for enhanced status for chalk streams to drive investment to prevent pollution and over-abstraction, as well as restoring habitat to boost biodiversity. For many of these rivers and streams their water quality, the low flows, and the loss of biodiversity has meant they are no longer able to sustain healthy fish populations.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we present a case study to showcase Costa Rica sustainability. Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. Promote ecotourism.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

The Strategy 2030 document sets out three overarching goals for the group, which comprises 46 grassroots charities with a collective 850,000 members, largely focused on harnessing the restoration of nature to help enhance biodiversity, drive down emissions, and boost climate resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO Bosch Sensortec, commented: “According to the Bosch guiding principle “Invented for life,” we want to improve people’s quality of life and safeguard the livelihoods of present and future generations.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s becoming not just present but part of their normal pastures,” he said, noting that he increasingly gets calls from farmers in this region who are wondering what to do.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. Policy makers, business leaders, financial sectors, and communities all have a part to play in this sweeping vision.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The group* is presenting its short list of activities and goals, and a strategy to reach them, in a “manifesto” at the outset of a three-day online conference on achieving a clean ocean, taking place 17 – 19 November ( [link] ). Survey the totality of anthropogenic chemicals flowing into the oceans.

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