Episode 365: Plastics, nature and biodiversity risk
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2023
Richard Mattison, president of S&P Global Sustainable1 and CEO of S&P Global Trucost, discusses S&P's new Biodiversity Risk Data Set.
How a global treaty could solve the plastic waste crisis
GreenBiz
MAY 22, 2023
Can plastics achieve par with climate and biodiversity as critical issues worthy of a global treaty? We’re about to find out.
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The UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework could be ‘Paris Agreement for nature’
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Set to be finalized in early 2022, the GBF’s draft sets out targets for protecting marine and land habitats, reducing pesticides and plastic waste, and increasing investments.
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We can do better: Redesigning climate change, biodiversity and plastic waste negotiations
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
Global negotiating processes must shift to achieve more meaningful climate results.
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Lionfish leather, pollution-free plastic and more: What's your pick?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Five startups vying for exposure and support at Bloom 23 made rapid pitches for their tech to protect nature and boost biodiversity.
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Report reveals hypocrisy of world’s biggest plastic polluters
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address the plastics crisis – the plastics industry, consumer brands and retailers have obstructed and undermined proven legislative solutions to the crisis for decades.
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Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity
Grist
DECEMBER 18, 2024
But these policies often address climate change in isolation without regard for other pressing issues like a decline in biodiversity, the contamination of freshwater sources, and the pollution of agricultural soils. targets on biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate mitigation; its also more cost-effective.
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Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy
GreenBiz
MAY 22, 2020
Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy. Esri and the science of corporate biodiversity (20:45). Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:21. Week in Review. Commentary on this week's news highlights begins at 4:35. AB InBev VP: Our quest for "agile" sustainable development continues.
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4 ways to spark more financing for sustainable chemistry
GreenBiz
JUNE 27, 2023
The transition to greener chemicals offers holistic solutions to plastics pollution, climate change and biodiversity, but we need more investments to scale innovation.
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Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 2, 2021
Current rates of plastic emissions globally may trigger effects that we will not be able to reverse, argues a new study by researchers from Sweden, Norway and Germany published on 2 July in Science. “The world promotes technological solutions for recycling and to remove plastic from the environment. .
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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Climate action NGO WRAP published annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors on 1 December. WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles.
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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 28, 2020
GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Some of the biggest contributors to the plastic crisis are the cosmetics and fashion industries. . Courtesy of.
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5 opportunities of a circular economy
GreenBiz
MARCH 5, 2021
For example, shifting towards recycled materials would alleviate the need to produce virgin plastics and synthetic fibers, which would significantly reduce fossil fuel use and associated emissions. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population.
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Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion
GreenBiz
JUNE 16, 2020
Climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity decline, water scarcity — all these issues are interconnected, and we must address them all simultaneously," he said. "In If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems," he said. "In
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Can We Make Plastic More Sustainable?
Green Living Guy
MAY 6, 2022
As pollution causes a significant loss of biodiversity and humans now face a compromised aquatic-based food system, it’s time to meet a simple truth: The world has a serious plastic problem. The post Can We Make Plastic More Sustainable? Seeing that […]. Seeing that […].
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Global biodiversity framework falls short on chemicals
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 17, 2022
Environmental scientists, ecologists, and policy experts argue in a letter published on 16 June in Science that the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – a new international agreement to protect biodiversity – fails to account for the totality of chemical pollutants that threaten the health of ecosystems worldwide.
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Scientists caution against a reliance on mechanical devices to clear water bodies of plastic
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. However, they caution that plastic removal technologies used so far have shown varied efficiency in the amount of waste material they are able to collect, many have not been tested at all.
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Plastic to Power: Transforming Trash into World-Changing Hydrogen
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The Scale of the US Plastic Waste Problem The United States is projected to generate 220 million tons of plastic waste in 2024, a 7.11% increase from 2021. Over a third of this waste is expected to be mishandled, contributing significantly to global plastic pollution. With only 19.8% With only 19.8%
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What happens to biodegradable plastics if they enter the sea? New study
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2024
Plymouth Marine Laboratory writes Our new study investigates what happens when biodegradable plastics enter the ocean, and whether these increasingly popular alternatives to conventional plastics are safer for marine ecosystems, or whether they come with their own risks. million metric tons in 2023 to almost 5.3
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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. Ports, shipping and the maritime sector: accelerating the decarbonization of ports and the shipping industry, including dramatically improving air and water quality in adjacent communities.
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'Earth's living systems are being compromised': World misses all UN biodiversity targets
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. A decade ago, countries adopted a series of 20 biodiversity objectives after discussions in Aichi, Japan, marking the start of the UN's decade of biodiversity.
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How Cities are Leading in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution
The City Fix
JUNE 8, 2023
“Plastic kills, and the damages of plastic pollution have no borders. We cannot beat plastic pollution if we don’t tackle climate change, environmental loss and food crises at the same time.” That was the powerful message Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
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UN publishes first draft of Paris Agreement-style global treaty for tackling biodiversity loss
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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Nestlé digs deeper into regenerative ag, puts $3.6B behind net-zero plan
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 7, 2020
A deeper commitment to biodiversity, through a multicropping initiative and the use of more grain varieties (such as spelt and oats) in its recipes. A pledge to pay more for recycled "food grade" plastic in order to help stimulate demand. (It billion to support those intentions.) .
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What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?
Grist
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world. That may have big implications for how Ocean Cleanup and other plastic campaigns end up tackling this mess. The plastic they find out at sea, by contrast, is older and more weathered.
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Morrisons to axe plastic bags from stores nationwide
Business Green
APRIL 9, 2021
Morrisons has announced plans to become the first supermarket to completely remove plastic bags from its stores in a bid to curb the mountains of plastic waste dumped into landfill and strewn across natural habitats every day. million plastic bags a week. Over 60 countries have banned the bag," Sutherland said. "As
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UN publishes first draft of Paris Agreement-style global treaty for tackling biodiversity loss
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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Seaweed: a model solution for fighting climate change, says group
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. This genomic diversity provides a phenomenal source of new materials across a range of industries, from food, to fuels and plastics,” Duarte said.
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Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting 'intersectional environmentalists'
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? Biodiversity in fashion (37:35) . Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting 'intersectional environmentalists'. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (7:35). In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes.
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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2021
It is no surprise then that the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2021 identifies climate action failure, extreme weather and biodiversity loss, alongside infectious diseases, as the top global risks for the next decade in terms of impact and likelihood. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate?
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Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world
GreenBiz
AUGUST 10, 2020
Each of the hundreds of off-the-shelf plastic containers that form the main structure house a self-contained colony of crickets, which can be turned into high-protein flour. Joachim pointed to a shared-bicycle concept being incubated at Terreform —"a super accessible bike-sharing program along with a biodiversity program,” as he described it.
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'A deadly ticking clock': Calls mount for a global pact to tackle plastic pollution
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2022
Campaigners and companies call on governments to establish treaty that aims to curb plastic production and consumption, as well as ramp up recycling and waste management infrastructure. Discussions about a global pact to cut plastic pollution are expected to dominate the agenda of a UN Environment Assembly 5.2 conference in April.
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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. And nearly all of us use fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and products from intensive agriculture. We teased apart nine processes vital to the Earth system. Our breach of boundaries is very new In the year 1900, there were around 1.6
The critical role of biodiversity in creating business value
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.
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Episode 255: Reflections and highlights from GreenBiz 21
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. 9 key takeaways from the 600-page Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. Episode 255: Reflections and highlights from GreenBiz 21. Heather Clancy. Fri, 02/12/2021 - 00:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:00). GreenBiz 21 highlights (18:00).
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On our watch… biodiversity breakdown
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Although over recent years in the built environment, ‘on our watch’, we have been discussing and to varying degree implementing biodiversity net gain, biodiversity units, action plans, habitat exchange, ecology of place, connectivity with nature and biophilic design.
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'The beginning of the end of plastic pollution': 175 nations adopt historic plan to deliver plastics treaty
Business Green
MARCH 2, 2022
Hundreds of countries around the world have agreed to draw up an international treaty to tackle the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, in an "historic" UN-led decision today that could lead to legally-binding international commitments and targets to slash plastic waste levels and engineer a more circular economy.
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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?
Business Green
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?
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Nature charities urge Chancellor to ramp up biodiversity spending in Budget
Business Green
OCTOBER 19, 2021
The government has committed to protect 30 per cent of land and sea and halt biodiversity decline in the next decade in support of its wider efforts to slash carbon emissions by 78 per cent against 1990 levels by 2035.
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Plastic disclosures to be added to CDP's environmental reporting platform
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Annual environmental questionnaires sent by CDP to corporates set to feature questions on plastic consumption. Environmental reporting platform CDP has announced it is to start collecting data about companies' use of plastics, in a bid to provide greater visibility over how corporates are contributing to the global plastic pollution crisis.
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'An assault on nature': Charity calls for action to curb plastic pellet pollution
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Fauna & Flora International argues tougher measures are urgently needed to curb 'entirely preventable' plastic pellet pollution. Plastic pellets, or 'nurdles', are lentil-sized pieces of plastic that are melted together to create almost all plastic items used in consumer products.
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Using mussels to clean up microplastics: UK laboratory trials nature-based solution
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 9, 2021
Earlier this year, with financial support from the Waitrose ‘Plan Plastic’ Fund, PML began testing how effective mussels are at removing microplastics from seawater using a custom-designed flume tank. Microplastics are the tiny plastic fibres and particles prevalent in our seas.
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Call to ramp up joint action to get London’s rivers ‘climate-ready’
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2023
The same stakeholders need to work together to prevent plastic pollution entering London’s rivers. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42 million people, as well as £321bn-worth of homes. So, everyone has a part to play to protect lives and livelihoods.
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Environmental Awareness Days in March
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Ditch the plastic gift cards and give employees experiences they’ll remember instead! Many are unaware of the dangers of improper recycling such as how food residue in containers can actually contaminate whole batches of recycled material and that not all items can be recycled even if they’re made from metal, glass, paper or plastic.
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