Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The collaboration, which was announced late last week, includes an undisclosed level of investment to support wine producers keen to adopt regenerative viticulture practices focused on boosting soil health, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration, according to the firm. Mark Pardoe, master of wine at Berry Bros.

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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! However, our work doesn’t stop there.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Terra Fondriest via FERN I visited Hamilton’s ranch in November 2022. Terra Fondriest via FERN Hamilton and Steele have decided to bet on biodiversity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The report, Frontiers 2022, comes ahead of the UN Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of February. Along with a loss in overall biodiversity — which has consequences for human health and the spread of infectious diseases — warming trends have already affected crop yields, threatening food security around the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

More than 20 projects across England aimed at restoring nature, reducing flood risk, cutting carbon, and boosting biodiversity win support through Landscape Recovery Scheme fund. This is such good news A major boost for biodiversity, carbon storage, drought mitigation, reduced flooding, improved water quality… & jobs.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

Our results spell problems for the health and diversity of future regional forests,” University of Michigan forest ecologist Peter Reich, who led the study, told the University of Michigan news office. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s fundamental to safeguarding biodiversity, ensuring that our unique aquatic wildlife is protected. In turn, this will improve the wider health of the rivers by improving their status for fish migration from poor to good.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It details some of the major upgrades needed to combat the climate crisis and meet environmental targets, to develop new economic landscapes post-Covid, enhance the wellbeing and health of citizens and to overcome energy and water conservation challenges. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all UK adults. [2]

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And while more than 15 million people live around the Irish Sea and many more visit for holidays, only a small percentage of them realise what wildlife lives there and just how important it is for biodiversity and the environment. Read the Irish Sea Network’s Vision Statement and 2022 Review at: www.irishseanetwork.org.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. People have altered 70 percent of Earth’s lands from their natural state and degraded up to 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Together, they will work to finalise a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Biodiversity underpins human health, wealth, happiness, and identity. But while this is well understood, the loss of biodiversity and intact ecosystems continues to accelerate. This is not going unnoticed by the business community.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The intervention from the CCC came as the government faced criticism over a key pillar of its post-Brexit farming subsidy scheme unveiled today, which is set to see around 1,000 farmers incentivised to improve soil health from next year. With the chances of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

It is therefore unsurprising that, at the end of 2022, blue carbon was a major topic in global climate conversations. November’s COP27 bore witness to new standards for incorporating oceans into the Paris Agreement, and a first-of-a-kind framework to guide the development of high-quality blue carbon credits was launched.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The strategy foregrounds the importance of "regenerative agriculture" practices, which prioritise improving soil health and maintaining and restoring diverse ecosystems, aiming to counter the habitat destruction caused by deforestation and other damaging practices frequently linked to global agricultural supply chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Worryingly, a 2022 study concluded that the world has already crossed the planetary boundary where chemicals threaten the very ecosystems—including the marine environment—upon which humans and most other species depend. Much more research is needed to determine the damage that many chemicals inflict on the marine environment.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Download the full report and data (clients) Highlights 💰 2023 investment: Funding in 2023 totaled $32bn, down 30% from 2022, although CAGR remains high since 2020 at 23%. CAGR since 2020 is 23%, but has slowed since the end of 2022 which was 32%. At the end of 2022 we counted 1,910 active climate tech startups since 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, the Government has now failed to deliver against one of the most important legal requirements of that Act – to set binding legal targets to improve environmental health. Proposed targets on species abundance, consulted on in Spring 2022, are so weak that by 2042 England could have less wildlife than it does today.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Responsible sourcing is a big focus , with the company aiming for 100 percent sustainably sourced tomatoes by 2025, 100 percent sustainable and traceable palm oil by 2022, and 100 percent cage-free eggs globally by 2025 (among other ingredients). What is the company’s policy for protecting biodiversity?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. In 2022 , the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. Europeans are deeply concerned about the impacts of pesticides on their health and environment.

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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 22, 2022

A consultation run by CDP in 2022 found high levels of support for plastic disclosures from the group's supply chain members and capital markets members, with 81 per cent claiming the information requested would be useful to inform financial or procurement decisions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2022

It is time for soil health to rise up the climate agenda, in particular at the companies whose products depend on it, argues Moët Hennessy's Sandrine Somers. It is hard to think of anything more pressing than the climate emergency or loss of biodiversity. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity. They filter water.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Brewing giant claims regenerative agriculture programme is among largest ever in Ireland and will help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. You can now enter the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 and be in with a chance of joining us at the UK's largest and most prestigious green business awards this summer.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Following the trial and an extensive research and development (R&D) programme, Foundation Earth is aiming to develop an "optimum and fully automated system" that could be rolled out across Europe by 2022. I support the launch of an independent organisation that will issue front-of-pack environmental scores on food products," he added. "We

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

As both demand for organic produce and public awareness of the role of soil in protecting biodiversity and tackling the climate crisis grows, there is an opportunity to promote biodynamic farming in the food, fibre, and wool sectors, according to the non-profit.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. The EBRD exited the company, along with all companies in Russia and Belarus in December 2022. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. as clients.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Previous research from ECIU found that farmers paid an extra £760m for fertiliser over the course of 2021 and 2022 due to high prices, compared to previous years. However, in late 2022 and early 2023 they have shown "little response" to falling gas prices.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

The group, which is being led by Rathbone Greenbank Investments, has called on Ministers to be "bold and ambitious" in their response to the landmark review published yesterday, which warned the UK's current food system is threatening public health, nature, and the climate and is in need of major reform.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Dubbed the 'Terra Carta' in homage to the historic Magna Carta - the charter of basic rights agreed over 800 years ago - the 17-page framework sets out 100 broad actions for businesses to harness their resources and innovation to combat escalating global climate and biodiversity crises.

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