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Bonn Challenge: Land restoration pledges reach 210 million hectares worldwide

Business Green

More than 210 million hectares of degraded land worldwide is now being targeted for restoration or reforestation under the Bonn Challenge, a major global initiative which claims nature-based climate solutions are playing a crucial yet undervalued role in boosting biodiversity, capturing CO2, and driving economic benefits.

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

Bayer’s commitment to inclusive growth means it is providing more people in all regions of the world with access to health care and food security, and developing solutions to environmental protection with a focus on decarbonization, climate adaptation, and biodiversity preservation. Learn more about them here. ###. billion in funding.

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For Peat's sake: Anger as full government ban on peat-based gardening products deferred until 2030

Business Green

Last year, the government said the decision to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops would support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025. Peatlands must be better protected as a matter of urgency."

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'Priority' species in freefall across England, Defra confirms

Business Green

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil.

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Can banks become the solution to - rather than a driver of - global deforestation?

Business Green

That is the core message from research by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) this week, which outlines a set of five key actions banks and other financial firms can take to help respond to the biodiversity and climate crises, de-risking their investments in the process.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Other research has highlighted the risks of offsets potentially leading to negative outcomes for biodiversity, for example by introducing invasive species or negatively affecting key ecosystem processes. Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1