Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2020

In 2020, business leaders should be developing robust strategies that to embed nature protection into their firm's operations, writes CISL's Gemma Cranston. Word is that 2020 will be the year nature becomes a priority focus for business and society.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00. Almost one-third of the money that Nestlé intends to invest will be dedicated to cultivating regenerative agricultural practices that improve soil health and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizer across 500,000-plus farms from which Nestlé sources ingredients. behind net-zero plan. Heather Clancy.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:00. Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. . Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. The good news is, farmers across the country are already working to implement sustainable practices!

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

Fri, 06/19/2020 - 02:45. The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. Timberland invests in regenerative leather ranches. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was the year that…. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 02:11. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.)

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Such initiatives, which include a new pilot growing program from General Mills in Kansas and two financing programs from Danone, will be necessary to help farmers weather the lengthy, three-year time period it takes to transition their operations to new cover crops and tilling practices that promote healthier soil. What's the right recipe?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Climate and greenhouse gas emissions have been at the forefront of risk and investor conversations around the environment but recently biodiversity and nature have been working their way into corporate commitments. In 2020 the World Economic Forum reported that $44tr of economic value relies on nature. Nature and biodiversity do not.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to boost adoption of regenerative farming practices globally, in a bid to reduce the food system's significant impacts on climate and biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change Alex Thornton Fri, 08/07/2020 – 00:30 How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? They act as oases for biodiversity, supporting up to 20 times as many species as non-native, managed forests. Photo by Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the plan, Nescafé said it would work with its coffee farmers to improve soil health and fertility, protect water resources, and support biodiversity in order to increase yields and help improve farmers' livelihoods, while also helping to sequester carbon through healthier soils.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks. percent of the GDP of the USA.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” Learn more about them here. ###.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations. samples analysed.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

charity Feedback have criticised the focus of meat producers’ emissions strategies on scope 1 and 2 emissions, stating in 2020: “They’re farming companies using the emissions reduction strategies of transport companies rather than coming up with strategies that are consummate with the fact that they are meat and dairy companies.”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 01:30. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020. . Holly Secon.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. ” — Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at HEAL.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Since 2020, the world’s four largest pesticide companies have spent over 20 million euros on lobbying both EU officials and the public.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. However, a 2020 assessment of regenerative agriculture from the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that while good for the environment, it has “limited potential” to mitigate climate change.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

A 2020 study from Princeton estimated that 66,000 miles of carbon dioxide pipelines would have to be built by 2050 to begin to approach 1 gigaton per year of transport and burial. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil. The largest direct air capture plant being developed in the U.S. As lawmakers in the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The net-zero energy Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai advocates green architecture and showcases the possibilities of integrating nature within urban environments. Dubai’s desert environment poses a significant challenge to installing such a biodiverse human-designed habitat.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year.

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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. PEspinosaC) May 20, 2020. China may struggle to meet 2020 climate targets, experts warn. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2020

Any increase in a product’s carbon footprint has environmental repercussions — like climbing temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, rising sea levels and increasing frequency of extreme weather as well as species vulnerability and threats to biodiversity. The company does not utilize any livestock.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'. Cecilia Keating.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now William Ginn Sat, 06/06/2020 – 02:00 This is an excerpt from ” Valuing Nature ” by William J. Copyright 2020 William J. Reproduced here with permission from Island Press, Washington, D.C. Resistance to change is universal.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

Over the past two years the Wiltshire farmer, who is set to stand for another two-year term in the NFU's upcoming 2020 elections, has been deeply engaged in the debate about what the net zero transition means for British farmers, land-use, and diets. So I think it's about a balanced approach.".

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