Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed. Philosophical debates about the merits and pitfalls of putting a price on nature are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s This funding also provides financial and technical assistance to farmers who wish to voluntarily adopt new practices that improve environmental outcomes such as soil health, water quality, water quantity and biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Biodiversity is in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators are plummeting in Europe. According to a March 2024 Harvard Law paper , which surveyed more than 200 environmental and agricultural scientists, meat and dairy production must be drastically reduced – and fast – to align with the Paris Agreement.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Previously, this has meant externalising environmental harm, ignoring issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, waste, deforestation, water pollution and soil degradation. Lawyers are required to act in the best interests of their client - reducing costs, minimising risk and avoiding liability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The first is to avoid a governance gap and ensure that environmental law continues to be properly applied and enforced in a post-Brexit world. For example, healthy soils and peatland play a vital part in reducing risks from flooding and absorbing carbon. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

In the recent high profile report by esteemed economist Professor Partha Dasgupta that was commissioned by the government - The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity - the key finding was clear: we must properly reflect the value of nature in our measures of economic success in order to counter the global decline in biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The government is set to unveil further details of its Agriculture and Environment Bills this week, which Eustice said would help encourage land managers to take actions to better support flood management, such as planting hedgerows to help hold water in soil and create natural dams.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”. .”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Bendell’s 2018 paper defines it as “an uneven ending of our normal modes of sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity and meaning.”. .”

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

But other studies have shown that organic agriculture emits 18 per cent less greenhouse gasses than traditional and increases overall biodiversity by 30 per cent and pollinator diversity by up to 50 per cent. Do they have the law behind them? Nothing will destroy the soil microbiome faster than those."

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By accelerating the shift to regenerative farming, Klim improves global food security, strengthens climate protection, and enhances biodiversity. The Big Picture: Globally, soils have already lost 50% of their original soil organic carbon stock , threatening food security, climate, and farmer livelihoods.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions. Black carbon. Carbon sequestration.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2022

Calls continue to mount for a global treaty to protect oceans ahead of a major UN marine biodiversity conference this week, amid further evidence of the plight of marine life and ocean environments caused by industrial fishing practices worldwide.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The more people analyze, capture and process data, the more the company must advance transistor density — a fitting challenge, given that Moore’s law began in the mind of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

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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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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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. From next year the government will launch a seven year transition period to phase in the new ELM scheme, which will see payments calculated based on the extent to which landowners deliver approved public goods.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

If we wish to have rich and abundant wildlife, more carbon captured in trees, soil and hedges, better protection from extreme weather and enough places for people to gain the wellbeing benefits of good quality green spaces, then we must invest in nature's recovery, and at scale," he said.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

Digging into the soil carbon connection. I’m excited by the increased awareness of the soil carbon connection, and the expanding efforts to incentivize using soil as a CO2 storehouse, from initiatives like Zero Foodprint and Restore California , California’s Healthy Soils Initiative , and Healthy Soils Hawai?i

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

The initiative was quietly humming along to the tune of about $11 million per year in funding until 2022, when Earth MRI received an additional influx of $320 million , spread out over five years, through the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But the benefits of extracting those minerals, Riofrancos said, “should not be presumed.”

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A wave of bankruptcies could sweep across the UK's farming industry unless the government helps farmers shift their production methods to enable a biodiverse and low-carbon future, according to a report published today by the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The intervention from the CCC came as the government faced criticism over a key pillar of its post-Brexit farming subsidy scheme unveiled today, which is set to see around 1,000 farmers incentivised to improve soil health from next year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Focused mostly on England, due to devolved responsibilities across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, it sets out clear roles for local and national governments, private investment, the farming industry, and the circular economy in helping to restore nature, bolster natural resources, and enhance biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. They added that the use of glyphosate can help reduce emissions from farming, by reducing the need for plowing the soil, a technique which can cause the soil to release greenhouse gases. Political Connections.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country? Assess your company’s supply chain risks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. But if we are serious about getting all our waters to good quality, we need to put as much focus on helping farmers farm in ways which don't pollute our waters or erode our soils as we do on stopping water companies dump sewage in rivers.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The more people analyze, capture and process data, the more the company must advance transistor density — a fitting challenge, given that Moore’s law began in the mind of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. We have legislated through the Environment Act and will continue to improve our regulations and wildlife laws in line with our ambitious vision.". Far from it.

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