DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Six new projects to explore how to maximise nature’s ability to capture carbon and minimise climate impacts Natural England has today announced £4.3m in new funding for a wave of projects that aim to trial the most effective ways of capturing CO2 and bolstering climate resilience using nature-based solutions.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because Myno’s process for producing biochar and carbon-negative energy from wood waste and forest-thinning slash piles will help our state reduce the risk of wildfires on our public lands. Within the CRF, some carbon in the feedstock will be converted into 18 MW of renewable baseload power at the Kettle Falls Generating Station.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough. Indeed, 60 per cent of the risks and opportunities assessed in the report have been given the highest urgency score.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recent data shows that of the 30 raw materials the EU classifies as critical, 19 are predominantly imported from China, a country where Covid restrictions and impacts continue to negatively affect the production and supply of goods. The price of these resources is also increasing. Today we are experiencing a polycrisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. A spokesperson from Fertilizers Europe said “transition to green and low-carbon production cannot be done overnight and will take more than 5-7 years.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Given the scale of the challenge, a joined-up approach that embraces nature's recovery is not an optional extra, but must be central to the whole plan, to both catch carbon and to help us adapt to what are now inevitable climate change impacts.". Central to such climate resilience efforts will be managing flood risk.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

This biodiversity crisis is unleashing equally well documented risks for human civilisation, including but not limited to diminished soil fertility, pollinator loss, increased flood and wildfire impacts, eroded food security from land and sea, rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource insecurity, and, of course, new and dangerous disease vectors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Peatlands are the UK's largest natural carbon store as well as critical habitats for flora and fauna. And, when peat extraction takes place, the carbon stored inside the bog is released as carbon dioxide, which is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

With COP26 fast approaching and the summit taking place on UK soil for the first time, there is finally a growing awareness that integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into business decisions can no longer be dismissed as ‘just another added cost'.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. As Ananas Anam grows, so do its social and sustainability efforts as it further builds a Philippines-based supply chain and promotes local culture and resilience. .

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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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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

The mapping project aims to establish the location and scale of current seagrass carbon sinks, providing a baseline from which projects to protect and expand the habitats can work. Waiting another 10 years for further confirmation of these negative trends is not acceptable. the UK region.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Creating sustainable ski resorts builds resilience. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain has a high carbon footprint contributing to climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and former Bank of England Governor said: "Ecosystems that have more diverse natural assets are more productive, resilient and adaptable. Sir Patha Dasgupta's review into the Economics of Biodiversity has the opportunity to reframe economic policy and should trigger urgent action.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Learning about their ambitious emissions targets, not only to be net-zero but carbon negative by 2030, removing the carbon emissions they have generated since their start in 1970.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 businesses and organisations from across the UK's farming, food, and retail sectors have today urged the government to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of its embattled, post-Brexit green farming subsidy programme so as to build a "productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future".

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. I think you'll see a lot more positive stories in 2024 than you've seen in 2023."

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

” Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. As Ananas Anam grows, so do its social and sustainability efforts as it further builds a Philippines-based supply chain and promotes local culture and resilience.

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