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From flooding to wildfires: Why 2024’s elections will make or break Europe’s climate adaptation policies
…tragic loss of life evidence that the UK is not robustly prepared for this kind of season. And without significant changes to policy, the UK’s official climate advisors have stated,…
Bouygues Energies & Services: Award winning renewable energy and clean heat network
…Energies & Services for Cambridgeshire County Council, is the first UK village to be retrofitted with a renewable heat network. How it works Cambridgeshire County Council’s net-zero goal for 2045…
AtkinsRéalis: Approach to becoming Consultancy of the Year
At a glance: Who: AtkinsRealis What: Award-winning approach to sustainability consultancy Where: UK When: Ongoing Why: To assist firms on the road to net-zero The challenge: Businesses are facing huge…
#SustyTalk: McCain Foods’ Jess McGhie on regenerative agriculture
…ago, McCain committed to implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of its global potato acreage. Regenerative practices are those that help to improve soil quality and boost biodiversity, often while…
Six key opportunities for sustainable business leadership in an era of crisis
…While he welcomed aspects of the UK’s updated Green Finance Strategy, he emphasised the importance of finalising a market leading UK Green Taxonomy, which is now back on the agenda….
Investors press 1,600 ‘laggard’ businesses to report environmental impacts
…on climate to CDP last year – a 42% year-on-year increase. Yet less than half of this amount disclosed on biodiversity, and only 1,000 disclosed information on forests. Corporates are…
Are major asset managers greenwashing with their net-zero targets?
…continents. Away from the energy sector, ShareAction has once again uncovered weak action on preventing deforestation and biodiversity loss from asset managers. Almost three-quarters of the asset managers had no…
How businesses can catalyse the transition to a circular economy
…consider other metrics, including water use, biodiversity and “other knock-on impacts”. Indeed, recent research revealed that 84% of studies into the socio-economic benefits of adopting a circular economy had focused…
What would the UK’s net-zero transition look like under Labour?
…agreed on the UK’s participation in the UN’s global biodiversity treaty, agreed late last year. The treaty has a headline vision of ending nature destruction and degradation and working to…
What is the role of business in delivering a Just Transition?
…decarbonisation in hard-to-abate sectors. More than 1,000 oil and gas workers in the UK have backed calls for fairer pay and measures to be introduced to help the sector’s workforce…
CCC Progress Report: Are any UK sectors on track to meet net-zero?
…the UK will meet its climate goals “diminishing” year on year. Indeed, projections for the UK to meet its 2030 goals under the Sixth Carbon Budget and to reduce emissions…
More companies disclosing on forests, but $80bn risk of inaction remains
…size of Switzerland was cleared of rainforests last year, notes that neither the Paris Agreement nor the Biodiversity Treaty delivered at COP15 will be met without ending deforestation. CDP’s global…
Environmental group challenges Government over Australia trade deal
…other nations. According to the National Food Strategy report, the carbon emissions from UK beef were 30kg Co2/kg compared to 45kg Co2e/kg from Australian beef, and forestation lost to UK…
Pension reforms to unlock £50bn for businesses, but lack green focus
…Peter Bachmann said: “These reforms will empower UK pension funds to invest in the types of solutions that can play a key role in tackling society’s biggest challenges, from biodiversity…
The Blue Economy: Ever thought about your relationship with the ocean?
…– 60% of DNA sequences from marine sediments cannot, for example, be identified at a higher taxonomic level. Headline-grabbing numbers (for example on overall fishing or biodiversity losses) are useful…
Hornsea Four: UK’s second largest offshore wind farm gets greenlight
…turbines and a capacity to power more than 3 million homes. RenewableUK’s executive director of policy Ana Musat said: “It’s great to see one of the UK’s largest offshore wind…
GFI launches group convening financial giants for nature restoration
…GFI Hive UK Financial Institutions for Nature Group, will work collaboratively to identify ways in which the UK’s finance sector can contribute to its nature-related goals. These include leaving nature…
Report: Covid-19 and recession risks jeapordising delivery of UN SDGs
…to fully achieve SDG 13, which related to climate action. The climate and biodiversity crises are intrinsically linked, and there are also links connecting the broader SDG agenda. For example,…
Low-carbon libraries and Welsh offshore wind: The sustainability success stories of the week
…business leadership. Across the UK and across the world, leading businesses, cities, states and regions are turning environmental ambitions into action. Here, we round up five positive sustainability stories from…
Dove launches project to restore 123,000 acres of rainforests
…with Dove on projects designed to create long-term positive impact for biodiversity, communities, and the climate in Southeast Asia – areas we are deeply passionate about. “Dove has made it…
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