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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. billion each year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The research looked to explore this and identified biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events as the most crucial topics to tackle in terms of overall impact, urgency, and geographical reach. These criteria include biodiversity impact, pollution impact, carbon impact, readiness level, costs, trade-offs and scalability.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As millions in public and private investment, boosted by the bipartisan infrastructure law, pour into the region, many people are eyeing these abandoned sites. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines on Oct 5, 2023.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wildlife charity RSPB has urged Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to "urgently" commit to protecting nature laws, claiming that recent anti-regulation rhetoric from both candidates could jeopardise the UK's nature protection goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2025

” Penny Simpson, Environmental Law Partner at law firm Freeths, attempted to place the report in context: The fundamental problem with modern economies is that good intentions to try to address problems as they emerge can, over the long run, lead to a steady accretion of rules and regulations which stifle innovation. .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Conversation charity has called on UK government to enact legally binding targets for biodiversity, warning that the UK’s current performance on protecting loss of wildlife is even worse than government’s already-poor self-assessment. The group claims that the country has failed on 17 targets, with progress going backwards in six areas.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading "Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss," the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In plans set to be announced later today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to protect 30 per cent of the UK's land by 2030 in a bid to put "nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery". We cannot afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today and it is happening at a frightening rate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

An international study classifies groundwater as a keystone ecosystem and proposes ways to improve its protection to preserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change Water is the basis of all life on Earth. However, the crucial role of groundwater in sustaining both humanity and biodiversity over the long term is frequently neglected.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

The law - which is open for consultation from today - would cover key agricultural commodities including soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, and leather. Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It would then be illegal to use products that fail to comply with laws to protect nature in those origin nations. Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

1 As not-for-profit Good Law Project explained, the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), backed by Good Law Project and represented by Hausfeld, brought an intervention in the hearing. Last year the company discharged untreated sewage 97,500 times for a duration of over 650,000 hours.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. It would recognise vital elements of the forest – contributing to tackling climate change, helping biodiversity, their role as a home to people, and a place for recreation.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A few options for increasing the ocean’s capacity to store carbon also may provide co-benefits, such as increasing biodiversity and reducing acidification. Additionally, researchers are hesitant to pursue this method due to a fraught history, including one experiment that potentially violated international law.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Hungary approves net zero law and issues green bond. Hungary has become the latest country to pass net zero legislation, after the national parliament this week approved a law that establishes a 2050 climate neutrality goal for the central European state. Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week.

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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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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. Biodiversity. Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15. Energy & Climate.

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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”. But the law is too lenient.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

Ecological consultancy RSK Biocensus – and specifically its biodiversity net gain (BNG) team RSK Wilding – is one of the first organisations authorised to work with landowners and developers to secure areas of conservation and biodiversity. She said that the system would be particularly useful given the recent change in planning law.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. NFU President Minette Batters said that "as the first domestic legislation covering agriculture for over 70 years, this really is a landmark moment for our food and farming industry".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long-awaited environmental legislation that promises to establish the UK's first legally-binding nature targets and oversee them through a new, largely-independent watchdog has finally passed into law today, despite lingering concerns that the law may still leave "gaping holes" in green protections.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE. The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act. It can't come soon enough.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Freedom of Information request to all 317 English Local Authorities received 294 responses, which showed that: 1 Only 41% (121 of 294) have considered the biodiversity actions they need to take with policies and objectives to support this.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The passage of the Bill into law will mean that all the devolved nations of the UK now have their own dedicated climate legislation in place, alongside the overarching target set through the UK-wide Climate Change Act. Friends of the Earth can finally welcome a climate law for Northern Ireland," the group said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Charity fears laws originally derived from the EU, including the Habitats Regulations, could be axed under Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak. Vital laws that protect nature and habitats in England that have their routes in EU legislation could be under threat under the next Prime Minister, wildlife charity the RSPB has warned.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

They argue that the laws will cause a drop in EU food production and lead to widespread economic losses. The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As part of the recently-adopted Environment Act, the government is seeking to make it illegal for larger UK companies to use, buy or import certain forest-risk commodities that have not been produced in line with relevant local laws around the world. °C," she said.

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