ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 16, 2025

In his general policy statement delivered to the National Assembly, newly appointed French Prime Minister Franois Bayrou cited geothermal energy, as well as nuclear, as important parts of a “low-carbon strategy” towards energy policy. ” “I am thinking, in particular, of our energy policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Climate change and green growth must be the key drivers across these policy areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

The tech titan has invested in protecting forests for some time , but last week it launched a new venture in collaboration with Conservation International that is dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, restoring biodiversity and addressing other climate crises while also producing a financial gain for the company. . Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. Yet national planning policy has failed to keep up with climate change legislation, leaving ambitious carbon reduction targets impossible to achieve.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. No wish list

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This hyperspectral data can be useful for a variety of use cases including defense and intelligence monitoring, biodiversity assessments, mineral mapping, and water quality assessments. In 2025, the biggest policy changes we anticipate will be in disaster preparedness and response – with the EO industry ready to support.

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Building Energy Monitoring Policy Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 111

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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Planet Pulse

JUNE 19, 2024

Earlier this year, the Australian government of New South Wales (NSW) designated $100 million towards housing development and biodiversity protection. The CPCP reported that it will facilitate the creation of around 73,000 homes in the region by providing necessary biodiversity approvals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

With biodiversity monitoring set to increase through the introduction of policies and schemes, it’s vital to assist ecologists with access to scalable remote technologies, says the group behind it. Being able to monitor biodiversity using remote sensing and AI will help landowners across the UK who want to monitor biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes. Looking back, the international community has repeatedly failed to reach most of its biodiversity targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It proposes that all new research plans, funding decisions and policy proposals should meet five key principles: Responsible Research. Climate intervention research should not be presented as an alternative to emissions reductions. Researchers should provide a clear, public justification of their activity. Inclusive Public Participation.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2021

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. food policy. food policy. food policy. Fri, 01/08/2021 - 01:30. One of the most exciting things about food and ag right now is the potential for change. But so are the solutions. These kinds of processes aren’t pretty.

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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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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring 195

Renew Economy

APRIL 25, 2024

The post Wind farm handbook to help developers avoid brolgas, bats and other project-sinking biodiversity risks appeared first on RenewEconomy. Renewables industry welcomes government funding to fill "critical knowledge gaps" on environmental and wildlife impacts of wind farm development, while also helping to get projects built.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Scientists, including experts from Cranfield University, are studying green spaces, blue spaces and urban infrastructures and how these fragmented parts interlink and impact on air quality, biodiversity and water management. The information will be used to design healthier and more resilient towns and cities in the future.

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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. Figuring out mechanisms through policy to incentivize that targeting would be great.

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Energy Monitor Energy Energy Policy 446

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We chat with Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Corporate Networks about the new Corporate Roadmap 2030 , a blueprint for strategy, policy action and systems change. How to add considerations for equity and biodiversity into renewables procurement? A corporate climate action plan, Ceres style (30:55).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some researchers contend there is an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Initially, we focused on palm oil supply chains and urged companies to adopt no-deforestation policies. In addition to continuing to work with new companies to adopt policies, we do a lot of work now to ensure companies update, improve and implement the policies they already adopted.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Rate of endemic species' extinction could be slashed by a quarter if action is taken now, but policy delays will make this outcome more difficult to achieve and twice as expensive, report warns. If we take ambitious action now, we can bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2050," he said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

How financial policy could charge up clean energy (29:00) . Without Congressional control, President-elect Joe Biden will find it tough to pass ambitious climate action, but he can do much by aligning financial policies to address risks associated with climate-fueling activities. Biodiversity in fashion (37:35) .

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Named the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, the new group will support British businesses as they try to tackle worsening biodiversity impacts and risks. A new coalition of British businesses launching today has pledged to work to reverse biodiversity loss and strengthen natural ecosystems in the areas in which they operate.

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POWER Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

This June, the European Council formally adopted a first-of-its-kind regulation that sets out to restore at least 20% of the European Union’s (EU’s) land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of The post EU Mandates Biodiversity Restoration, Setting Up New ‘Green’ Requirements Alongside ‘Clean’ Ones for Power (..)

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Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Policy 111

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Guerrilla leader turned president says, faced with having to reduce their carbon consumption, upper classes fear ‘the barbarians are coming’ Middle-class fears of losing a high standard of living because of green policies is driving the rise of the far right across the world, the president of Colombia has warned.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In addition, 40% of survey respondents said current government policies are ineffective in accelerating renewable deployment, and these inhibiting government policies and regulations were cited as the number-one barrier to scale, with 77% of respondents identifying this challenge.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

The Trust’s scientific research was inspired by wanting to find practical solutions to reversing the decline of farmland biodiversity. Policy makers must avoid imposing rules that restrict landowners’ ability to tailor decisions to local conditions. Visit workingforwildlife.co.uk for more information.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

The long-term use of fertilizers in industrialised agriculture and the resulting build-up of nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment are contributing to widespread biodiversity loss and ecosystem disruption across Europe. Knock-on effects. Farm to Fork strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the WEF’s “State of Finance for Nature” report released on 27 May. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Ugbaad Kozar, senior policy advisor at Carbon180, discussed these disparities and the power imbalance associated with carbon removal measures. There’s a long history of Global South countries inheriting the burden of hosting projects that have benefited wealthier countries in reaching their climate targets," Kozar said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

Biodiversity, Food and Nutrition: A New Agenda for Sustainable Food Systems " by Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Eliot Gee. Leading professionals from Bioversity International examine the positive impacts of biodiversity on nutrition and sustainability. Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C."

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation. Research projects aiming to boost biodiversity, capture greenhouse gas emissions and protect coastal environments are among those receiving a share of £9.2m

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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