GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2025

Tony Juniper said: Some of these restoration schemes are really quite mind-blowing, delivering nature recovery at scale, at the same time as producing the resources we need to build homes and infrastructure, developing landscapes that support climate resilience, while also creating fantastic places for families to get close to wildlife.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition to biodiversity benefits, such measures have potential reductions to downstream flood risk, which is important in terms of helping to sustainably mitigate against the future effects of climate change. However, as a nature-based design, the scheme was remarkably resilient.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It also explores practical applications in aquaculture, biotechnology, and climate change mitigation, emphasizing brown algae’s potential for carbon capture and ecosystem restoration, while offering valuable insights into enhancing ecological resilience amid climatic challenges.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Startups aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate and biodiversity impacts can apply for funding.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Concerns over environmental risks such as biodiversity loss and extreme weather remain top of mind for leaders in the new Global Risks Report published in late January by the World Economic Forum. Rob Bailey, director of climate resilience for Marsh & McLennan Companies, offers insights. . Risk & Resilience. Corporate Strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Diseases affecting different UK tree species appear to have a multiplying effect on the loss of associated biodiversity, according to new research by James Hutton Institute scientists and partners in the UK and Portugal. Pedunculate oaks host 326 species that are only found on oak trees (image credit: Theophilos Papadopoulos , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers. Pull Quote. Food & Agriculture. Deforestation. BusinessGreen.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

This is an opportunity for all of us — companies, investors, government, civil society — to think critically about what our role might be in creating a more resilient future. . Transparency leads to accountability, accountability drives innovation and innovation is key to resilience. An opportunity to adapt. Pull Quote.

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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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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

The principles of a circular economy offer a helpful framework to envision a more resilient and regenerative alternative — and chefs might be the missing ingredient to successfully realizing a new model. . When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . in São Paulo.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

So it's allowed us to reintroduce to the world of the business community this notion of what it means to be resilient, and not just to be agile.". Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too. Risk & Resilience. Consider litigation. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“The £25 million will also help harness the power of nature and support the Environment Agency’s FCERM Strategy, which provides a longer-term vision of how we will create climate-resilient places and better protect and prepare homes and businesses from flooding and coastal change.” Natural flood management is a win-win-win.”

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

The funding Welsh Government has provided to the protected site network is a vital step in protecting and restoring these areas, and helping us to strengthen resilient ecological networks. And it means we, and all living things in Wales, can build better resilience against climate change. The post £9.8

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indeed, for many of the world’s largest companies, sustainability is seen as key to minimizing risk, increasing resilience, enhancing competitiveness and unlocking new opportunities. At last, sustainability has emerged from the shadows to be considered part and parcel of corporate success.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

The report sets out some recommendations, based on detailed cost-benefit analysis, which could help hydropower operators and catchment managers improve the resilience of existing impoundment sites to sediment buildup and reduce their impact on river biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

However, our treescapes need to become more resilient to pressures such as changing climate, disease, and competing demands for land in order to reverse decades of decline in biodiversity and environmental quality.

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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. “The

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Research appears to show that marine ecosystems can start working again, providing important functions for humans, after being wiped out – and to do so long before they return to peak biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

With a more comprehensive and systemic understanding of their agri-food value chain in place — showing, for example, where soil health is in jeopardy — leads to smarter decisions that can futureproof companies by ensuring long-term supply chain resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

In addition, the policy position calls for planning reform to be aligned with strategies for net zero and adaptation, levelling up, biodiversity and health and wellbeing. Our communities – as well as our infrastructure – must be both resilient and sustainable and we need to be able to design and deliver services accordingly.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted the shortfalls of the currently purely voluntary approach.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Unlike other feedback systems designed to drive immediate response think of the life-saving equipment in intensive care units, or even a cars fuel gauge the tools we use to monitor climate resilience and risk are dangerously, and indefensibly, outdated. Imagine applying that principle to improve climate resilience.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

“By facilitating the creation of new woodland, and bringing new life to ancient woodlands, the HS2 Woodland Fund will continue to be instrumental in ensuring that any loss from the project is sufficiently compensated for.” HS2’s Biodiversity Lead David Prys-Jones said: “The HS2 Woodland Fund, a component of our extensive Green Corridor environmental (..)

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A group of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), in New South Wales, will lead a symposium on the impact of climate change and other environmental challenges on Antarctica, and what can be done to preserve the continent’s biodiversity in response to these threats.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Addressing Urban Heat Islands to Promote Climate and Public Health Goals Mitigating the UHI effect not only addresses climate resilience (UN Sustainable Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Action) but also promotes health and well-being (SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being) by reducing the risks associated with high temperatures.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. New report from Forest Research examines how trees, woodlands, and forests reduce and slow down rapid run-off that causes flooding.

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