Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

She said the company aimed to build on the successes of its previous ESG strategy, which has so far helped Carlsberg achieve a 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions across its business, while also slashing its water use per hectolitre by 21 per cent, both against a 2015 baseline.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. The Blue Carbon Explorer displays a 2015-2021 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) change analysis for Old Harbour Bay, Jamaica, highlighting areas of mangrove loss and growth.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Black carbon. Mitigation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. They added that the use of glyphosate can help reduce emissions from farming, by reducing the need for plowing the soil, a technique which can cause the soil to release greenhouse gases.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

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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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. 1] Vijay Jarhdhari , ”Barahnaja: Traditional Biodiverse Crop System in Uttarakhand”, Pg.114. The aftermath has revealed it fangs in ways never seen before.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

Finally, Regrow will ground-truth these claims with field soil carbon samples to calibrate the models. "It Where might we also see systems going in the wrong direction and what does that mean for the outcomes we care about as it relates to climate, water, biodiversity and economics?" he explained.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

And then again in 2015. Restoring and protecting these natural carbon sinks is important for lots of reasons, including supporting biodiversity, alleviating flooding and creating associated jobs. Climate change could turn these ecosystems into sources of emissions too, as soils warm and wildfires become more frequent.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Work began in 2015 and has since been annually tracked, with anthropogenic climate change threatening all the progress and gains made in public health for the past half-century. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? It’s our economic activity that’s causing climate change and biodiversity loss. Also, most countries will miss their targets. The UK will miss by a mile. But this isn’t the main problem either. But this is still not the main problem.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. He testified in Congress and appeared on national news shows to lobby for his industry.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year. And with 80 per cent of the world's population facing a threat to their water security , trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion. So what can we do?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. It wasn’t until 2015 that the Houston City Council unanimously approved a plan for the garden to take a 30-year lease on Glenbrook Golf Course. The garden has been built from the ground up.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

The world lost a football pitch of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest every six seconds through the course of 2019, as almost 120,000 square kilometres were destroyed - an area larger than Cuba, Portugal, or Austria - principally to make way for the production of agricultural commodities.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees?

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me. which is more biodiverse than most other parts of the country.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG; Houston. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

For example, regenerative agricultural practices typically reduce carbon emissions, as well as improving soil health, biodiversity, and water management. Since 2015, climate change-related cases have more than doubled - a quarter of the nearly 2,000 cases filed so far globally occurred between 2020 and 2022," she says.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It was also the fifth anniversary (though delayed by a year due to Covid-19) of the historic Paris Agreement, executed in 2015, making it a milestone year in which countries were mandated to revisit and update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Biodiversity and nature-based solutions. So, what happened?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CLIMATE ACTION Translating the Paris Agreement into Action in the Pacific Editor: Anirudh Singh, 2020 This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015. When they want to kill me, they will do it.’

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That is the highest number since new tougher standards were introduced in 2015. Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. In 2021 99 per cent of the 400-plus bathing waters in England met or exceeded the required standards. Two decades ago, most of those waters would have failed to meet even the minimum standard.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG; Houston LinkedIn | Company profile After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The European Union this year promised 3 billion more trees as part of a Green Deal; and existing worldwide pledges under the 2011 Bonn Challenge and the 2015 Paris Climate Accord set targets to restore more than 850 million acres of forests, mostly through planting. million acres. This is much greater than previously assessed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

With conditions rapidly changing as the planet warms, wildlife managers nationwide are facing similar biodiversity crises. Back in 2015, for example, the Board of Game passed a rule allowing brown bear baiting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, leading the Fish and Wildlife Service to ban it in 2016.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Kelp are key to much of the West Coast’s marine biodiversity. million per year from 2011 to 2015. Another entrepreneur has touted a natural soil additive with ground urchin as the chief ingredient. Growing up, Grant Downie saw firsthand how much money commercial divers could make gathering red urchins.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Kelp are key to much of the West Coast’s marine biodiversity. million per year from 2011 to 2015. Another entrepreneur has touted a natural soil additive with ground urchin as the chief ingredient. Growing up, Grant Downie saw firsthand how much money commercial divers could make gathering red urchins.

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