Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Land use changes such as set-aside, switching arable to grassland or restricted hillside cropping, can improve infiltration and increase water retention.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I've always found it curious how, on the whole, the business community has been much slower to ‘get' the seriousness of the global ecological crisis and the profound threat it poses to the future of business, the global economy and - well - humanity, as compared to the threat posed by climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leggett, who sat on Solarcentury's board after stepping down as the UK-based firm's CEO in 2007, could see the sale coming, and immediately began plotting the next phase of his varied and influential career. "I The company he had founded back in 1998, Solarcentury, was in the process of being sold to Statkraft in a £117.7m

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

This includes such topics as human rights, climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, labor practices, anti-corruption measures, diversity initiatives, financial services industry stability commitments and more. These standards are constantly revised to reflect changing global priorities and regulations.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

In a study released last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that without fundamental changes in agriculture, the world risks increasing food insecurity. For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. And a team of U.S.

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