Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Soil is suddenly in fashion. 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. Dirt will help make soil sexy," she added.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

The supermarket announced this morning it planned to ban all peat compost from its shelves from 2022 in response to customer demand for peat-free options, noting that sales of compost had skyrocketed during the pandemic. Peatland covers just three per cent of the world's surface, but hold nearly 30 per cent of all soil carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Green water is the water cycle available to plants, including rainfall and soil moisture. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. It depends on soil moisture for its survival. Water is the bloodstream of the biosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

Total organic carbon (TOC) analysis is quickly emerging as one of the most essential tools available for assessing water and soil samples, as it delivers key insights for contamination monitoring, environmental analysis and purification benchmarking.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

Making Waves with Blue Carbon Trace your finger across a globe, around the edges of islands and continents, and soon enough, you’ll brush against some of the world’s most important ecosystems – the marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses that constitute the world’s “coastal blue carbon” stocks.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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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. Healthy soil is the common thread between agriculture, viticulture, and fighting climate change. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity. They filter water.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Cargill is taking advantage of its position in the supply chain between farmers and consumer food companies to invest in advancing the emerging carbon marketplace associated with regenerative agriculture. Cargill also bought the carbon offsets on an annual basis. The offsets will be paid per metric ton of carbon sequestered.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Forestry Commission has given the go-ahead to the creation of a string of tree plantations in East Anglia which it is claimed will see fast-growing hardwood trees with strong carbon storage potential planted for the first time in the UK. These first four plantations alone are expected to sequester over 1.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The band has created a portfolio of carbon removal solutions to account for the emissions they cannot directly cut, including support for Climeworks direct air capture technology. Supporting them with our carbon dioxide removal service takes us one step closer to our vision of inspiring one billion people to remove CO2 from the air.".

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 11, 2024

If you are looking to understand a drought’s impact on fire risk or irrigation activities impact on water resources, ideally you would use measurements of soil water content. Measure, report, and verify on forest carbon projects with Forest Carbon Diligence. And these measurements should be reliable and transparent.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JUNE 15, 2022

Summer 2022. E8, an impact investor community specializing in climate tech and cleantech, invites applications from early-stage companies to its 2022 Decarbon8-US funding round focused on technological solutions that advance regenerative agriculture and reduce its environmental impacts. Apply online by June 27 at the latest.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This extensive, three-year farm-based programme intends to highlight opportunities for reducing the carbon emissions of barley production. In the first phase in 2022, the programme will begin with at least 40 farms across spring and winter barley sowing. As the pilot develops, many more farmers will be engaged to take part.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields - with rocks. Earlier this year, she cofounded Lithos Carbon , along with two Earth Sciences professors. Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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. Media Authorship. Close Authorship. It’s at 90 percent currently.).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

particulate matter in line with WHO guidelines, but the bill itself includes only a commitment to set a target before 31 October 2022. Soil and biodiversity. Similarly with the land, and areas like soil quality and pesticide use, the bill does not at present propose to issue penalties if certain standards are not upheld.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Another would abandon fescue altogether and restore the native grasses and wildflowers that once dominated the region, as well as help revitalize natural carbon sinks and fight climate change. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The phrases laid out below will also be in the back pockets of lobbyists, who doubled in number year on year in 2022 as an analysis by DeSmog revealed , and are expected to show up in force in 2023. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The researchers’ new polymer decomposes, leaving only water and carbon dioxide behind. ‘To The dextrin backbone can be degraded by natural enzymes that are present in soil.’ ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13 December 2022. Most polymer backbones contain chemical bonds, which are very strong.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The three companies will start with the deployment of a 100MWh energy storage system in the second quarter of 2022 in Rudong Jiangsu province outside Shanghai, China. China has set a target to reach carbon peak in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060. Have you read?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2022

Plants also filter the air, absorbing carbon in the home and releasing fresh oxygen. Related: How to bring biophilic design inside your home in 2022 Satin silver pothos Scindapsus pictus is a vine-type plant that offers an eye-catching variegated look. It will prefer to dry out a bit between waterings in well-draining soil.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Crisp company aims to ‘bring potatoes full circle’ and improve soil health by producing farm fertiliser from potato leftovers its Leicester factory. Walkers plans to significantly cut its carbon emissions by creating low carbon fertiliser for its potato farmers from leftover potato peelings.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Carbon Plantations is aiming to raise up to £4.7m to plant new species of fast-growing hardwood trees with strong carbon storage potential at a site in Suffolk. The project is expected to absorb 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide over the first 10 years of its lifetime, according to the company.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Its roots sequester carbon in the soil and boost soil health, making it a regenerative agriculture dream crop. Joel VanderSchaaf planted Kernza to primarily help restore soil health to his threadbare fields, but he also harvests the wheat-like grain. They also retain less carbon than their perennial counterparts.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests on Aug 11, 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We also saw important technical advances, with new rules agreed for reporting emissions and on international carbon trading, and multiple initiatives and sector deals. And, as COP President for the next year, the UK finds itself in the driving seat for global climate action in 2022.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

And that, in turn, could contribute more than a third of the efforts needed to sequester carbon and limit global warming to 1.5 He pointed to his suit jacket: “This is fiber, this is cotton, this is land, this is water, this is carbon.” degrees Celsius. More than anything, industrial agriculture has played an outsized role.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. And the good news is that nearly 85% of dollar investment in upstream African agrifoodtech went to climate-focused startups, according to the 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. Source: 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. But at a total of just $27.2

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

It was found that upstream pipes situated close to the banks of a river were laid in soil saturated by water. Reducing energy and carbon costs Energy is a significant part of the additional treatment and transportation costs involved when processing I&I. tonnes of excessive carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The report is released before representatives of 193 nations convene in Nairobi for the resumed 5th session of the UN Environment Assembly ( UNEA-5.2 ), between 28 February and 2 March, 2022. Watersheds are degraded by wildfires’ pollutants; they also can lead to soil erosion causing more problems for waterways.

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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. The partnership follows the launch of Berry Bros.

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Grist

JUNE 25, 2021

A draft version of an upcoming report from the United Nations climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scheduled for release in February 2022, was leaked this week to Agence France-Presse. The draft report says that the Earth has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit). degrees C (2.7

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Zero Carbon. We must simultaneously transition away from fossil fuels while we remove the nearly 50% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide seen since the dawn of the industrial era. Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems.

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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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