Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Decarbonisation policy announcements facilitate scale; formalising plans for net zero could accelerate decarbonisation and biodiversity in leaps and bounds. The challenge of emissions reduction across agriculture is one of the most difficult to solve.

Agriculture 77

Agriculture Biodiversity Policy Climate change 77

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Dubbed 'Together Towards ZERO and Beyond', the firm's new strategy marks an "evolution" of its previous programme launched five years ago in 2017, according to Carlsberg CEO Cees ‘t Hart. It also plans to implement circular packaging solutions, which it described as "critical" to reducing its CO2.

Packaging 73

Packaging Recycling Recycling Agriculture 73

Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The FIA previously introduced hybrid engines into F1 and created the world's first all-electric racing series Formula E in 2014, before later setting up a dedicated Environment and Sustainability Commission in 2017 chaired by former Mexico President Felipe Calderón. by the end of the century. by the end of the century.

Carbon-neutral 92

Carbon-neutral Sustainability Waste Waste 92

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.

Agriculture 93

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 93

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.

Waste 38

Waste Waste Biodiversity Pollution 38

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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.

Energy Monitor 79

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Government Soil 79

Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

2017, Faulk, 2019). But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations? 5 GtCO 2 for direct air capture, and a maximum of about 5 GtCO 2 for soil carbon sequestration. How much more land-based carbon uptake can be expected during this century if BECCS is pursued? References. Gaffney, A.

Technology 59

Technology Carbon-negative Climate change Fossil fuels 59

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

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. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity. Chatham House, 2017.

Sustainability 108

Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon 108

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

COP 130

COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

COP 130

COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

Startups 28

Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

Startups 28

Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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. But the impacts run deeper: 75 per cent of the world's accessible fresh water arises from forested watersheds. So what can we do?

Climate change 36

Climate change Agriculture South America Soil 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. Garden supporters had to raise $20 million by the end of 2017 to claim the city-owned property. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. The garden has been built from the ground up.

Soil 28

Soil Stormwater Education Medicine 28

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Although the forest was thriving before the fires in 2017 and 2019, we see few signs of regeneration.

Resilience 96

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 96

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. In May 2017, his lab released its very first silver flies, just 740 of them, at four locations in New York over a period of three days.

Carbon 139

Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 139

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.

Seafood 125

Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 125

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Neither was there any consideration of these climate threats and their implications in the Future Homes Standard consultation, the 2017 Industrial Strategy, Parliament's pioneering Climate Assembly initiative, or the doomed Green Homes Grant scheme.

Resilience 101

Resilience Climate change Government Carbon-negative 101

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

Pollution 43

Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 43

Green Roof Technology

MAY 17, 2021

The poorly draining site soils and the tight site precluded traditional ground-based stormwater best management practices, so they looked to a vegetated rain-detaining roof for a solution. ” The Perry Street Townhouses were completed in spring 2017, and the plants on the roof are spreading nicely over the growing surface.

Stormwater 52

Stormwater Plastics Soil Innovation 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. .

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

They offer shade, soil retention, healthier soil, carbon sequestration, and in some cases increase property value and even offer food. According to Kathleen, “Our goal ultimately is to make the lives of people better, reduce carbon, bring back biodiversity and look at a tree as the essence of life. cities on August 5, 2017.

Home Energy Monitoring 40

Home Energy Monitoring Earth Day Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 40

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.

Soil 52

Soil Carbon Agriculture Organic 52

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

But other studies have shown that organic agriculture emits 18 per cent less greenhouse gasses than traditional and increases overall biodiversity by 30 per cent and pollinator diversity by up to 50 per cent. Nothing will destroy the soil microbiome faster than those."

Organic 38

Organic Agriculture Soil Government 38

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Woodberry made a name for himself in the environmental justice community as one of the chief planners of the 2017 People’s Climate March in Washington, DC, which is where Smith met him. It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me. TNC doesn’t want to hear this.”.

Logging 91

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 91

Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Taking expected population growth over the coming decades into account, a 20 per cent reduction in meat consumption would imply a 10 per cent fall in cattle and sheep numbers by 2050 compared to 2017, freeing up more land for other activities. There's a double task here for farmers," says Stark.

Agriculture 48

Agriculture Policy Government Climate change 48

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate. From its cosmetics direct-sales origins in 1969, Natura &Co has matured to swallow up Avon, the Body Shop and Aesop.

Sustainability 518

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 518

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change risk assessments were subsequently published in 2012 and 2017 with the third in January 2022 setting out 61 risks to infrastructure, human health, nature, and vital systems such as food, transport system and opportunities.

Resilience 36

Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Grist

JULY 19, 2020

A 2017 study by a group of researchers that included Asseng used models to forecast changes to these main crops under warmer temperatures. Food shortages are an important driver of social problems. 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.

Agriculture 62

Agriculture Climate change Soil North America 62

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, edited by Wei-Yin Chen, Toshio Suzuki, Maximilian Lackner, 2017 There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R.

Climate change 95

Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. For example, hazardous waste can contaminate soil and water supplies and pollute the air. Why is meeting this initiative important?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. ” Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

The treatments rejuvenate the soil and help plants thrive. This took shape in 2017 when the company launched the Sacred Rivers Climate Project (SRCP), an initiative that focuses on preserving biodiversity and habitat, cleaning up air, water, and plastic pollution , and empowering women in the developing world.

Carbon 28

Carbon Soil Retail Biodiversity 28

Low Impact

JANUARY 21, 2021

Then neonics started turning up in unexpected places – they weren’t just disappearing on contact with the soil but were mobile in the environment. Only around 5% of the chemical stayed in the plant, and the rest starting showing up in the soil long after application, and in neighbouring ditches, margins and hedge plants.

Climate change 87

Climate change Soil Biodiversity Government 87

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

Carbon 534

Carbon Soil Agriculture Organic 534

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks. million acres of exceptionally biodiverse land since 1985, and more than a million people have moved to Florida alone since 2018. Hotter temperatures have already limited harvests of traditional foods and medicine used by many indigenous nations. Virgin Islands.

Climate change 143

Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Sea level rise 143