GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The key questions that have arisen from the crisis are essentially ESG questions, such as: Will rising biodiversity loss and the changing climate influence the frequency and intensity of pandemics? How can we ensure more resilient supply chains for essential goods, such as food and medicine?

Resilience 446

Resilience Innovation Health Retail 446

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

Biodiversity 74

Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil Education 74

Green Living Guy

JULY 3, 2024

Business, Women, Youth, and Other Stakeholders “80% of registered medicines come from plants or have been inspired by natural products.

Biodiversity 52

Biodiversity Medicine Electric vehicle Electricity 52

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. His words apply equally to rebuilding biodiversity as they do to addressing climate change. It can't come soon enough.

Biodiversity 56

Biodiversity Law Medicine Logistics 56

Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Traditional medicine offers a path to reach Sustainable Development Goals on health, but care must be taken to conserve and not overexploit bioresources.

Medicine 24

Medicine Biodiversity Health Sustainability 24

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

per cent of the ocean floor they are home to at least a quarter of all marine species, providing critical habitat and a fundamental source of protein, as well as life-saving medicines. Although reefs cover only 0.2 Between 2010 and 2019, the amount of algae has increased by 20 per cent, corresponding with declines in hard coral cover.

Ocean acidification 147

Ocean acidification Biodiversity Health Climate change 147

Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

billion people, and we’re really destroying the natural habitat of lots and lots and lots of other species,” said Frank Snowden, a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at Yale University. Loss of biodiversity can also cause diseases to spread more widely. “We’re becoming an enormously voracious species of 7.5

Medicine 145

Medicine Climate change Health Africa 145

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. and Zoetis Inc.,

Building Energy Monitoring 138

Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 138

GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine. More biodiversity is in the earth beneath our feet than in all above ground ecosystems combined.

Soil 252

Soil Agriculture Health Meat alternatives 252

Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

IPBES research calls for science-based valuation of nature to be placed at the heart of economic decision-making in order to reverse the biodiversity crisis. Yet it warns these critical services are all under threat from the biodiversity crisis, with one billion species of plants and animals now at risk of extinction. "70

Policy 66

Policy Biodiversity Medicine Politics 66

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Wide-ranging new rules on how to fairly share ocean resources have also been agreed through the new treaty.

Biodiversity 74

Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor COP 74

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Beavers were driven to extinction in the UK more than four centuries ago as they were hunted for their meat, fur and castoreum – a highly prized secretion used in medicine and perfumes. We’re delighted that these beavers have now been given leave to stay permanently.”.

Government 165

Government Carbon-negative Medicine Soil 165

Green Market Oracle

MAY 9, 2020

The biodiversity focus of this year's WED calls us reimagin our relationship with nature. It enables medical researchers to understand human physiology; and provides substance for developing medicines. Human action has reduced biodiversity and modified wildlife population structures and at an unprecedented rate.

Biodiversity 60

Biodiversity Medicine Climate change Pollution 60

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 29, 2020

The biodiversity crisis and climate change are tragedies of the global commons. Instead of GDP and stock market valuations we need to emphasize metrics that reward efforts to conserve biodiversity and preserve ecosystem health. Despite a plethora of scientific warnings governments have not done what they must to address climate change.

Climate change 98

Climate change Biodiversity Medicine Health 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

Biodiversity 82

Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 82

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. From its cosmetics direct-sales origins in 1969, Natura &Co has matured to swallow up Avon, the Body Shop and Aesop.

Sustainability 505

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc. Fragrant herbs will smell divine and can be practical as well as attractive, providing a small edible yield, being useful for herbal medicine, and attracting wildlife. Photo by Douglas Bagg on Unsplash.

Sustainability 89

Sustainability Ethics Medicine Soil 89

Unsustainable

MARCH 3, 2020

In the south of Chile, this biodiversity is home to many dairy, meat, and wool farms, with sheep, cows, and alpacas. The picture below shows a medicinal herb bed with calendula beginning its sprawl along the ground while a grape ivy plant that grows atop a string structured along the perimeter of the same bed.

Medicine 52

Medicine Agriculture Soil Biodiversity 52

Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be. For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine.

Global warming 95

Global warming Ethics Biodiversity Agriculture 95

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

COVID-19, painful though it is, could pale into insignificance compared to the turbulence created by climate change and the collapse in biodiversity," he said.

Government 77

Government Health Climate change Carbon 77

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Hemp (a variety of Cannabis sativa L. Additional Resources.

Building Energy Monitoring 148

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability Recycling 148

Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. In West Bengal, farmers use bio-diverse integrated farming models that combine at least 5-6 types of food crops, 10-12 types of vegetables, trees yielding food, fuel, and fodder, and medicinal plants.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Retail Biodiversity Medicine 52

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But we know that together these two areas of land hold a large proportion of the world's biodiversity of plant and animal species. Protecting wildlife in this way is not simply a way to preserve the longevity and conserve the biodiversity of helpless beasts, but necessary to protect human health. Taking action now.

Climate change 60

Climate change Biodiversity Agriculture Medicine 60

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

Resilience 98

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

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).

Soil 62

Soil Policy Medicine Agriculture 62

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Native Energy offers a wide range of projects for organizations wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.

Carbon 148

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit] above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.” The science is unequivocal: a global increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius [2.7

Climate change 28

Climate change Health Medicine Biodiversity 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 10, 2022

Many plants provide food and medicine to humans. Others serve us indirectly by being part of natural ecosystems and global biodiversity. “But now is our last chance to find unknown species, name them and hopefully protect them before they become globally extinct.” Palm oil and mining are well known for ruining ecosystems.

Medicine 36

Medicine Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Record numbers of delegates from business and finance attended the COP15 Biodiversity Summit, but these actors are not part of official negotiations – so why do they make the trip? But as the dust settles on this month's COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal, observers have noted how the CBD might be on the brink of a new era.

COP 41

COP Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring 41

Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

I take your water, you take my energy, they take our food, we take their medicine. We have a chance to save our planet, including much of the diverse array of flora and fauna that make up our biodiversity. Around and around the maypole we go, ashes, ashes, we all fall down. That is how our civilization ends." Or maybe we won't. "It

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Politics 98

Grist

JULY 17, 2023

And, of course, fungi threaten humans, too — not just by decimating the biodiversity of the world around us, but also by infiltrating our bodies and causing new illnesses. They were in medicine, ecology, agriculture, and a few others. Fungi are now coming for the Cavendish, the banana we bred to replace the bananas we lost.

Agriculture 96

Agriculture Climate change Health North America 96

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

A study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently estimated that to meet climate targets, the world will need to remove as much as 10 gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year by mid-century. The study suggests NETs have an unlimited capacity for reducing carbon levels in the atmosphere.

Technology 52

Technology Carbon-negative Carbon Medicine 52

AGreenLiving

APRIL 5, 2021

Biodiversity loss Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth, including plants, animals and micro-organisms. In the Amazon, in Africa, in the Arctic ; it’s happening not at one place and not with one group of organisms, but with all biodiversity, everywhere on the planet.”

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Africa Organic Medicine 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction. When species become endangered , the ecosystem and its biodiversity equilibrium are imbalanced, triggering chain reactions where one loss leads to another.

South America 28

South America Biodiversity Medicine Logging 28

Eco-Business

MAY 9, 2023

Concern and cautious optimism as pharmaceutical companies set up in the biodiverse Himalayan region.

Medicine 10

Medicine Biodiversity 10

Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Specialty plastics and packaging is a significant part of Dow's business, from packaging for food and medicine, wire and cable materials, to specialised films and adhesives for industrial applications, we serve much of the world with the materials it needs. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

Plastics 69

Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 69

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The escalating climate threats more companies are dealing with are also putting the spotlight on other massive, interconnected economic risks—biodiversity loss, water pollution and scarcity, deforestation--that threaten to undermine business operations and supply chains.

Investment 41

Investment Fossil fuels Biodiversity Policy 41