GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. Soil and biodiversity. The UK Soil Association’s Gareth Morgan bemoanded “a gaping hole in the Environment Bill where soil restoration should be”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Airlines can eliminate the skepticism/criticism associated with offsets of questionable merit and even more questionable verification by investing in projects right in the communities where their customers and employees live and work. Healthier soils can result in healthier crops and ultimately healthier people.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

McCains, the UK's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, has unveiled the 'McCain Potato Farmer Pledge' backed by a £25m investment designed to help its supply chain better manage the impact of both climate change and the coronavirus crisis.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. Sustainable agriculture can help to preserve our natural resources, like water and soil. Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) May 10, 2018.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

Toast Ale - which specialises in using waste bread to brew beer, delivering significant emissions reductions in the process - became the first UK brewery to certify as a B Corp in 2018. The company today also announced that it is looking to "go beyond carbon neutrality" by investing in UK regenerative agriculture practices.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

In 2018, the Land O’Lakes Sustain program, now part of Truterra , provided loans for the cooperative’s farmers to adopt sustainable methods such as water-reuse systems and manure separation technology. Finance & Investing. Organic Valley’s farmers are mostly in Wisconsin and other Great Lakes regions, California and the North East.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In order to boost productivity and profitability, farmer’s need to carefully manage where they invest their time and resources. During Zambia’s first harvest in May 2018, Derek Nicolle, General Manager of Agrivision Zambia – Mkushi Estates, who grows soy, wheat, and maize on 3,000 hectares, was experiencing unnoticed irrigation issues.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Almost 100 percent of our new investments in renewables are based on pure market conditions,” he said. Enel has a lot of new investment coming down the pike. Between 2020 and 2022, the utility will invest €11.5 “No incentives whatsoever.". billion ($12.6 Putting a number on solar-plus-storage.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

According to EDF’s second annual “ Business and the Fourth Wave of Environmentalism ” report , while 92% of business leaders agree that technologies can improve ROI and sustainability only 59% of leaders are investing in technology for sustainability. That’s a 33-point gap between what businesses think versus what they’re doing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In a detailed roadmap published today, the global food and drink giant said it planned to invest a total of CHF 3.2bn - around £2.7bn - over the next five years, with CHF 1.2bn (£1bn) directed towards regenerative agriculture across the its supply chains over the next decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

1 , AGCO is sowing the seeds for a global refresh of its mission - including electrified farm machinery, autonomous field robots that swarm through fields and smart tractor retrofits that provide farmers with insights into metrics such as the organic matter in their soil. "It With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

He linked up with David Perry, another serial entrepreneur in the life sciences space, who invested in Indigo's Series A round and became CEO. "At From there, Indigo Carbon consults with the farm on how it might absorb more carbon into its soil or release less to begin with. That brings us to why FedEx invested in Indigo Ag.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone has already demonstrated a 14% reduction in absolute methane emissions from 2018 and 2020, with successful projects that have demonstrated benefits for farmers in Africa, the European Union and U.S., while reducing emissions per gallon of milk. Danone and EDF will work together to pilot innovations to cut methane in years to come.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

COP27 partner Hassan Allam Holding , one of the largest privately owned corporations in Egypt, has announced plans to invest $17.1 German engineering company Siemens, another COP27 sponsor, services firms such as Cairo-based Orascom Construction, which built one of the world’s biggest gas power plants in Egypt in 2018.

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Low Impact

JUNE 16, 2021

Not only can large, industrial farms not feed the world in the future, they will destroy the very soils and ecology of the only planet that we have to provide food at all. Plant and Soil. In this article, Chris discusses whether small, organic farms can feed the world, and, of course, he concludes that they can. David Connor.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. It has also forgotten about preparing for the impacts of heatwaves, where the 2018 heatwave will become 50 per cent more likely in 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

It will further bolster the case for investment into the essentially nonexistent U.S. The turbine deal remains subject to Dominion’s final investment decision, governmental permitting — no sure thing given Vineyard Wind's ongoing uncertainty — and other approvals. offshore wind supply chain. Although the U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” We have invested funding to rebuild,” said Cameron Wohlford, director of design and construction at the school’s facilities, “only to have them fail.”. Many of the valley’s spruce trees lean drunkenly.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2019

As NOAA stated in a 2018 report , “Annual flood records are expected to be broken again next year and for years and decades to come.”. More than 70 percent of the planet’s surface is water, and as the world warms, more water evaporates from oceans, lakes, and soils.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In its list of 2030 commitments to support the European Green Deal, CropLife said that it will “invest 10 billion euros into innovation in precision and digital technologies by 2030.” These investments, however, would be impacted should the EU’s pesticides reduction target be adopted.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Energy Monitor 36

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) cited the CCC in public statements last week around the release of its annual Economic Report , which announced an estimated £21 billion of investment in new oil and gas projects by the industry over the next five years.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

One of the biggest problems with construction is sediment — fine silt that comes from loose soil — that pollutes waterways and damages aquatic habitats. Because of the possible financial burden of climate-related catastrophe, emerging markets could attract almost $30 trillion in climate-related investments in the next decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Land and property values for forestry and afforestation have skyrocketed over the past couple of years - could this unlock much needed investment in nature restoration? It also provides crucial ecosystem and climate services, explains Tilhill's head of forestry investment, Peter Chappell. The UK forestry market is positively booming.

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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. inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. Ikea added another €200 million to its investments in being carbon neutral by 2030. Sustainable investing advances. The climate protest movement explodes.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 9, 2020

The ashes are mixed with soil at the base, along with a memorial marker. In May, I spoke with another intriguing agroforestry startup, Propagate Ventures , part of the fall 2018 cohort at Elemental Excelerator. It analyzes the costs of the investment, the potential revenue, the labor implications and the anticipated yield.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, the Irish company came under fire for “astro-turfing” after it was revealed to be employed by pesticide firms to run a pro-glyphosate campaign, which it had represented as a grassroots-led effort by farmers. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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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. Meissner and Reinhardt officially formed Charm Industrial in February 2018.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Hydrogen 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s also planning an investment push that will see it fund carbon removal projects at a starting cost of $25 per metric ton in 2025, increasing to $80 per metric ton in 2030 — far higher than the amount companies traditionally pay to purchase carbon offsets on voluntary markets.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 17, 2020

1 , AGCO is sowing the seeds for a global refresh of its mission — including electrified farm machinery, autonomous field robots that swarm through fields and smart tractor retrofits that provide farmers with insights into metrics such as the organic matter in their soil. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan. percent through 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

It is a characteristically bullish statement from Batters, who has overseen a major gear shift in climate ambition since she was elected the NFU's first woman president in the trade body's 100-year-plus history in 2018. If you remove livestock from the system, you then become reliant on chemical fertilisers," she contends.

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