Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Professor Hector added: ‘Having diversity in a tropical forest can be likened to an insurance effect, similar to having a financial strategy of diverse investment portfolios.’ Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 employees and installed hundreds of sites in New York state. “This is an industry that’s been served by people with no ability to invest in R&D,” Sachse said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

gigawatts of offshore wind installed or with the final investment decision in place. Moray East won a contract for difference in 2017 at a strike price of £57.50 ($75.30) per megawatt-hour. Floating offshore wind unlocks huge swathes of potential seabed where deeper waters or soil conditions rule out fixed foundations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If we’re going to actually build an agile and resilient system going forward, then we have to invest in it.". In 2017, there were 16,585 certified organic farms, a 17 percent increase from just a year earlier, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s latest Organic Survey , released this month.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They invest in precision agriculture to reduce impacts on the environment. million images from the Planet database dating back to 2017, AMAGGI was able to conduct trend analysis and take a preventative approach to various challenges it faces. Leveraging over 8.7

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Plans to open the world's largest insect farm in 2022 have taken a major step forward, after ag-tech start-up Ÿnsect secured $372m investment in its latest fundraising round to help build the 'carbon negative' project in France.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

AGCO has made many, many acquisitions to amass this portfolio, including the buyout of Precision Planting from Monsanto (now Bayer) in 2017. Moving away from heavier equipment, for example, could help reduce soil compaction, allowing fields to absorb and sequester more atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can't be used for many other crops. The water in natural land supports the cranberry bog and in return, the cranberry bog enriches the soil that supports outside land.". In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Pledges from global governments had already surpassed the 150 million hectare mark in 2017, and fresh analysis today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals the total figure pledged for restoration has now surpassed 210 million hectares.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Tony Dalwood, chief executive of asset manager Gresham House, considers the investment opportunities in agri-technologies such as vertical farming. Investment in this area will be crucial if we want to protect agriculture industries and the food supply chain, especially once the UK exits the European Union.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

In 2017, the contribution of agriculture to world CO2e emissions from all human activities was 20 per cent, with just over half of that - 11 per cent - derived from crop and livestock activities within the farm gate. The challenge of emissions reduction across agriculture is one of the most difficult to solve.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

To signal our ambition, we've set ourselves a challenging target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of Better Cotton produced by 50 per cent by 2030 (from a 2017 baseline). It also helps us to better direct our own funding for field-level investments , as well as to attract finance from the burgeoning impact investment sector.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

“I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. But the investor was undeterred. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

As such, it posits that investment and collaboration on a scale never seen before between policymakers, farmers, industry, and other stakeholders will be required, recommending "a target-driven structure" like that pioneered by the US government in the 1960s through its Apollo missions to reach moon.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 17, 2020

AGCO has made many, many acquisitions to amass this portfolio, including the buyout of Precision Planting from Monsanto (now Bayer) in 2017. Moving away from heavier equipment, for example, could help reduce soil compaction, allowing fields to absorb and sequester more atmospheric carbon dioxide. Courtesy of AGCO Close Authorship.

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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. This means further research and proper financial investment to develop the technology to a point where agribusinesses feel confident to invest at scale.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pumps in response to annually rising sea-levels. Beneath the soil beds are pipes and water storage containers to manage the runoff.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

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. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

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. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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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.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

More frequent and more intense storms create land runoff that can overwhelm water treatment facilities, contaminating drinking water with hazardous waste or soils with intestinal parasites. Furthermore, elevated CO 2 concentrations can result in greater uptake and concentration of soil toxins (such as arsenic or cadmium) in rice.

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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. However, as Kathleen Rogers points out, you really have to know what you’re doing to ensure that the trees thrive and that the local community is invested in the campaign.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It estimates the UK on average stumped up just over $2.8bn in annual climate finance in 2017-18, yet based on the country's cumulative CO2 emissions, national income, and population, a 'fair share' would equate to funding of around $5.8bn.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

However, it is also clear the pandemic has turbocharged the sector's growth beyond previous expectations, with a more recent report from FAIRR noting that the plant-based protein sector attracted double the amount of venture investment in the first half of 2020 than it did the whole of 2019, at $1.1bn.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SEPA will continue to invest significant regulatory effort in monitoring waste exports to ensure compliance and will use a variety of approaches to successfully detect, disrupt and deter illegal waste exports from Scotland.”. Between September 2016 and March 2017 SEPA officers examined a sample of bales from the 51 containers.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Pricing mechanisms promote conservation, efficiency improvements, and fuel switching, while encouraging investment in new cleantech innovations. Washington’s failed I-1631 – a carbon fee and invest initiative was a hybrid policy combining a pricing mechanism with subsidy programs.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

They have built a fantasy water league for 2022, which, when we consider their track record of success, is a showcase that we would invest in.”. Founded in 2017, Pani Energy has been selected for the Global Cleantech 100 list 2022. Epic Cleantec (USA) – decentralised water reuse.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 30, 2019

The largest private company in the US invested $75 million investment in Beyond Meat’s pea protein supplier Puris , as a follow-on to an earlier $25 million deal last year after the two companies formed a joint venture for pea protein ingredients. “As Find out more from our team here.*). This is the future of food.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience. Although the forest was thriving before the fires in 2017 and 2019, we see few signs of regeneration.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

If we do not invest time, efforts and resources in climate adaptation - particularly to enhance the resilience of our critical national infrastructure - then there will be an enormous price to pay in future, and that price will not only be paid in money," the report stated.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“If we’re going to actually build an agile and resilient system going forward, then we have to invest in it.” In 2017, there were 16,585 certified organic farms, a 17 percent increase from just a year earlier, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s latest Organic Survey , released this month.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Rather than invest capital directly in renewable-energy projects, he wants NRG to provide long-term contracts that improve their financeability. Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

Firms and governments around the world are already reaping the economic and environmental benefits of investing in this innovative approach. New European Union regulations introduced in 2017 allow farming of seven insect species, including field crickets and black soldier flies. It’s time Scotland did the same.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

Regenerative agriculture has been the buzzy theme in agriculture for a few years with big investments from big food companies starting in 2020. Nothing will destroy the soil microbiome faster than those." Instead of giving my neighbor money to destroy the soil, give me an incentive to do crop rotation,'" Dillon said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. MEP candidates, and their parties, also regularly took aim at the EU’s Green Deal.

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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. So in that sense, it's a no-brainer.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a Founding Partner at venture capital firm AgFunder where he co-leads the investment team with Founding Partner Michael Dean. And so despite the size of the opportunity, investment in this sector comes with significant risks and challenges. The opinions expressed are those of the authors.

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