News Headlines
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UK soil loss means our descendants will struggle with future harvests and river quality
Food
UK soil is being destroyed at 10 times the rate it is being created, costing £1.2 billion annually in England and Wales - but only a fraction of the cost, £10 million pounds a year in England, is needed to ensure the agricultural sector is still productive at the end of the century, and this would reverse the declining health of our rivers, claim a coalition of interest groups.
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Stora Enso launch renewable lignin tree product to replace oil-based glue
Business
Stora Enso, a Finnish headquarted company who aim to replace fossil-based materials by developing products based mostly on wood, has launched 'Lineo' a bio-based lignin as a renewable replacement for oil-based glue. Lignin is one of the main building blocks of a tree.
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Hope for planet as scientists engineer enzyme that eats plastic bottles
Science
Bottles made of plastic that persist in the environment for hundreds of years could become a pollution of the past thanks to the discovery of an enzyme that eats the substance, and work by scientists to further improve it by engineering.
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Disagreement over Iceland's way of tackling palm oil's biodiversity impact
Food
Retailer Iceland's decision to remove palm oil from its own branded food has been criticised by both The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, who share Iceland's concerns about the environmental impact of palm oil, but do not agree with the solutions Iceland are adopting, and the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Biology who say Iceland’s move to ban palm oil products is understandable but could backfire.
Trade Shows & Conferences
Conference programme announced for ecobuild 2018
ecobuild, the event for forward-thinking professionals in the built environment, has announced the themes and inspiring speaker list for its 2018 conference programme from 6th-8th March at ExCeL, London.
The Rushlight Show is a marketplace that brings together cleantech developers and sustainable solution providers, with investors & financiers and businesses looking to source suppliers and partners for an improved level of sustainability in their supply chain and operations.
Ecobuild 2018 will be designed around its visitors and will bring to life the things they have said are most important to the future of the industry: the latest technology; the freshest thinking; and the most innovative materials to keep them at the forefront of the built environment.
Join us at Companies Vs Climate Change...Brussels this October and Miami end of November.
Many F1000 companies speaking. www.solveclimatechange.com
"The B2B Climate Solutions Event"
MORE THAN 100 EXPERT SPEAKERS CONFIRMED FOR EDIE LIVE 2017
The annual flagship two-day exhibition and conference attracts thousands of energy, sustainability and resource efficiency professionals.
AQE ANNOUNCES AGENDA FOR AIR QUALITY CONFERENCE
The organisers of AQE 2017, the international Air Quality and Emissions Show (Telford, UK, 24-25th May) have published the programme of the event.
