- 10/07/2022
Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?
Carefully planned mitigation techniques like restoring degraded ecosystems and rewilding, as well as renewable power expansions, could help limit climate change and prevent biodiversity loss.
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- 10/06/2022
Review: Conference "European Green Premises 2022"
The conference of the LIFE-BooGI-BOP project in Wiesbaden on September 14-15 showed that there are viable solutions for biodiversity-oriented, climate change-adapted commercial sites - and that in the various countries and climate zones of Europe.
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- 10/06/2022
Guide on biodiversity measurement by the Finance and Biodiversity Community and Foundation published (2nd edition)
The Finance and Biodiversity Community (F@B Community), part of the EU Business@Biodiversity Platform, and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation have published a Guide that aims to help financial institutions to find a measurement approach that fits their needs.
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- 10/06/2022
Where the world’s largest companies stand on nature – analysis by McKinsey
In short: While Global 500 companies increasingly recognize the importance of nature, few companies have established nature-related commitments outside of carbon.
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- 10/06/2022
Business for Nature call for signing COP15 business statement on mandatory assessment and disclosure
The network urges all companies to join others from across the globe who are calling on Heads of State to ‘Make It Mandatory’ and require all large businesses and financial institutions to assess and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature by 2030.
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- 10/06/2022
Science-Based Targets for Nature (SBTN): Public consultation on biodiversity assessment and prioritization
To complement science-based targets for climate, which help companies mitigate their GHG emissions, and to help companies adopt a roadmap for integrated environmental action, SBTN is developing science-based targets for nature including freshwater, land, ocean and biodiversity.
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- 10/06/2022
IPBES: Call for nominations of experts
IPBES is seeking experts and practitioners with expertise in impacts and dependencies of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people from all relevant business and financial sectors (formal and informal).
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- 09/23/2022
EU taxonomy: NGOs sue EU Commission over forest-damaging assessment criteria
After several NGOs left the EU Platform for Sustainable Finance in protest, the next bang follows a few days later: NGOs from seven EU countries are suing the EU Commission over what they see as illegal criteria for bioenergy and forestry projects in the EU taxonomy.
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- 08/25/2022
European consumption threatens tropical forest
Will EU laws stop the destruction? From 1990 to 2020, the world lost an estimated 420 million hectares of forest, 90% of which was tropical forest. The expansion of agriculture is the main cause of forest loss worldwide: according to a recent FAO evaluation, nearly 90% of deforestation is due to it. After China, the European Union is the second largest importer of deforestation.
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- 08/17/2022
Save the date: Quarry Life Award 2022
The winners of the Quarry Life Award will be announced on 17th October 2022 at the Egg in Brussels. The 5th edition of the competition by HeidelbergCement will bring together ideas from more than 70 projects in 16 countries for the protection of nature and biodiversity management in quarries.
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