The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Environmental Impact of Biomedical Waste The improper management of biomedical waste can lead to negative consequences for the environment. When this waste is not disposed of properly, it can cause pollution of soil, water, and air. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog has identified five “narratives of delay” in documents put out by powerful actors in the agrochemical and industrial farming industries since the EU announced Farm to Fork. And the EU’s proposed reforms, they say , do not take into account science and data that predict negative impacts. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

To begin with, the government would need to introduce targets that deliver improvements in four key priority areas, including air quality, water quality, nature and resource efficiency - although this could be broadened over time to other key areas such as soils. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". That would still leave 30 million tonnes of CO2 emissions each year from UK aviation, however, which would be left to carbon capture and sequestration efforts to deal with.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. Climeworks.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Time for Energy is part of a collection of 201 company documents, official correspondence, reports, academic studies, and other materials that cast new light on what Shell knew about climate change — and what it chose to tell the public. ” Documents from the collection can be viewed at Climate Files , a project of the U.S.-based

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. Signatories of the document have condemned critiques as a “smear campaign”.)

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Develop a plan document that outlines the terms and conditions of the plan. The document should include information such as employee eligibility, contributions, vesting, and distribution options. You can use this protocol alongside carbon footprint calculating software such as Green Business Bureau’s partner, Aclymate.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

But herein lies the danger: If we in the West choose to mine Indigenous culture for solutions the same way we mined Indigenous land for carbon — engaging not with people but with whatever idea of them best suits the program of our relentless prosperity — then any succor we find will be temporary, another trap we’ll have sprung on ourselves.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As has been well documented, 2020 is expected to see an unprecedented peacetime drop in global greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the economic downturn driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. We need to go to net zero and afterwards to net negative, so removing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere.".

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Concerns continue over indirect land use change (and its associated carbon losses), the sequestration opportunity costs of converting cultivated lands into biofuel feedstocks versus reforestation, and high demand for agricultural lands to meet the food security needs of a growing population. Source: Field et al.

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