Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Funded by Horizon Europe, NATURE FIRST brings together 12 global partners to improve biodiversity and protect the habitats of many species which are being threatened by human activity. Claire Gwinnett, Professor of Forensic and Environmental Science, explained: “The overall aim is to halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity in Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Nutrient pollution can lead to the growth of harmful algal blooms such as cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae, pictured (image credit: UKCEH). Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report evaluates the impact of the national Natural Flood Management Programme which received £15 million of government funding, including benefits to communities and to biodiversity alongside protecting homes and businesses from floods. million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Today, pollution, ecological degradation, diabetes, farmworker exposure to toxins, displacement of Indigenous peoples and more are largely unaccounted for on business balance sheets. By gaining this full picture of impacts, better decisions can be made in the short term and the longevity of businesses can be safeguarded over the long term.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. McPherson said that urban forests are unique because they connect global atmospheric benefits with ecosystem benefits and resilience and mitigation benefits.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Accelerate and integrate the efficacy of climate/biodiversity actions to achieve greater impact and effect. We need to think of protected areas as serving both the biodiversity they help to protect and the carbon sequestration ability of the ocean – MPAs protect and retain carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

It also harms biodiversity, and harms communities affected by air pollution. Replacing biomass and fossil fuels with renewables like wind and solar will bring down energy bills and make the energy system more resilient to future droughts and dry weather.”. ” Water usage is also an issue. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

At the close of 2023, Defra asked the British Ecological Society to bring together nearly 40 experts, to collate expert opinion on freshwater policy and set out a list of priorities for the biodiversity evidence programme to focus on. Published on 21 March, the new report sets out priorities for restoring England’s polluted fresh waters.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unaddressed. The biodiversity crisis is a crisis because it won't just kill the plants and animals it is killing," he is to say. "It It will kill us too.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Climate resilience is the theme of this year’s event (29 th May to 4 th June), which aims to inspire the public to help protect the capital’s waterways. 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

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Sustainability encompasses everything from ensuring resilience in the supply chain, to focusing on driving down carbon emissions, through to the broader catchment thinking that looks at the water cycle holistically. A hot topic at the moment is ensuring resilience and sustainability within the supply chain.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. Yet beyond product innovation, the report warns food firms are not doing nearly enough to build resilience against drought and other climate-related risks. But a better future is possible.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. Yet beyond product innovation, the report warns food firms are not doing nearly enough to build resilience in their supply chains against drought and other climate-related risks.

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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. Barren landscapes denuded of nature, polluted waters choked with sewage, empty seas trawled of life.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Failure to manage this will undermine the resilience of the system and could lead to sustained high energy prices into the future.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023, CC BY-ND. Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. We teased apart nine processes vital to the Earth system.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 24, 2024

. —————————————– “Forward: A new era for nature tech” “As the eyes of the world turn to Cali, Colombia, for the next UN Biodiversity Conference, COP16, it is increasingly clear that companies are prioritizing biodiversity and combating the growing nature crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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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

MAY 7, 2020

Your government has the opportunity to show global leadership, forging a path out of this crisis by putting a resilient economy, healthy communities, and a thriving natural world at the heart of the relief and recovery effort.".

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

In a statement to mark World Environment Day, the Prime Minister said that while countries were rightly focused on combatting the pandemic, it was critical not to lose sight of the need to protect the planet "from the devastating threat of climate change and biodiversity loss". 4/4 pic.twitter.com/lhQGTURjCh.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

However, the report also found that many of the world’s coral reefs remain resilient and can recover if conditions allow, providing hope for the long-term health of coral reefs if immediate steps are taken to stabilize emissions to curb future warming. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Washington state must cut greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in half within the next ten years if we have any chance in meeting long term state requirements to nearly eliminate pollution that causes climate change by 2050. Cap and Trade: A False Promise.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. pounds of cattle feed that could have been consumed by a malnourished human, 64.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. We rely on the biodiversity of the planet's ecosystem to provide oxygen, pollination of plants, food and much more, making this a crucial time to act.".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. Each facility would source wood from a 100-mile radius, an area that includes eight National Forests and a major biodiversity hotspot.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Building resiliency. The NAP outlines a roadmap to strengthen the country’s resilience to climate change over the next five years. Strengthen the resilience of human and natural systems through adequate land and marine planning. Institute climate-resilient public services and infrastructure.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Natural Environment Plan sets out the actions the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and its partners will take over the next five years to enhance the region’s biodiversity, protect endangered species, and improve access to green spaces and waterways for residents.

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