Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As far back as 2008 we thought it eco-crazy to dig up knotweed infested soils from one site only to dump it in a landfill site, many miles away. This avoids the environmental and financial costs of consigning vast quantities of otherwise good soil to landfill and importing clean fill. Bagged biochar.

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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. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures.

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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. ” “Despite warm words and promises to listen to health professionals and worried parents,” she said, “when it comes to the crunch, they have chosen to let the public down.”

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. The UK is already experiencing widespread changes to its climate, with average land temperatures having risen by around 1.2C The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

According to a slate of new scientific research published this week in Nature, however, the threats that climate change poses to these terrestrial carbon sinks are greater than previously understood. 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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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Many young people are already asking themselves these questions, and the answers are only getting more important with climate change. Climate change and food systems Extreme weather threatens food production cycles, and by extension, what food we each have access to. What food options do I even have access to?

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The report also highlights how these risks are unevenly distributed, with the elderly, low-income households, children, and marginalised and minority communities most exposed to climate-related hazards. As home to more than half the world's population, cities find themselves sitting on the front line of climate change.".

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. Climate mitigation and adaptation. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. How does that work?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Fast-moving droughts like this one are developing more and more quickly as climate change pushes temperatures to new extremes, recent research indicates — adding a new threat to the dangers of pests, flooding, and more long-term drought that farmers in the U.S. The main reason they’re occurring faster, Yang said, is climate change.

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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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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

Climate change-induced warmer temperatures are causing many plants in temperate climates to exhibit spring behavior, like blooms and budburst, much earlier in the year. Elevated temperatures are a primary mechanism through which climate change affects crop phenology. Source: Zhang and Liu 2022.

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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. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

November 10, 2022. Agriculture plays a vital role in our ecosystem, economy, and lives, but as the world’s population continues to grow and the effects of climate change become more pronounced, many of our current agricultural practices can’t be sustained. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Panel. Register Here. General ticket: $15.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Tackling climate change can't wait and neither can we," said Mark Schneider, Nestlé CEO. "It We have a unique opportunity to address climate change, as we operate in nearly every country in the world and have the size, scale and reach to make a difference. It is imperative to the long-term success of our business.

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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.”. This threatens “many species on Earth, including our own,” the report warns.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Four additional targets for soil health, pesticide use, smallholder livelihoods, and women's empowerment are also set to be announced by the end of 2022, Better Cotton confirmed. However, McClay stressed that as the labelling scheme became more popular there was a need for farmers to further improve environmental practices. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Climate Change Committee delivers its verdict on COP26, but will the UK government heed its advice for the coming 'crucial' year ahead? Glasgow was a step forward in global efforts to address climate change, including a genuine increase in ambition to reduce emissions worldwide.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. between 2016 and 2020.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

CARB addresses California’s increasingly severe climate impacts. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. Climate Impacts. Climate Strategies. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Kevin Homrighausen.

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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. The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. Coastal ecosystems can actually store up to 5 times as much carbon as upland forests.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

The “ cosmic crops ” project is the United Nations’ first foray into space breeding, part of a global effort to address rising risks of food insecurity stemming from shifting land use patterns, population growth, and climate change-driven extreme weather. billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone. Russia, and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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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. We already use regenerative agricultural practices and have seen a marked improvement in the quality of the soil on our farm.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

As the climate warms, the ancient ice that used to cover an estimated 85 percent of Alaska is thawing. Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Its absence has already fundamentally changed how — and where — people can live.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Europe’s Green Deal.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Office of Naval Research announced in front of 300 climate tech investors at Interactive in May, the launch of Elemental’s 2022 EDICT cohort of summer interns and employers, and nearly $100M closed by the nonprofit’s portfolio companies in the month of June. This news follows an additional $32.5 M commitment from the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

But take a walk through the Barbican's recent summer 2022 exhibition, and it is possible to see how both businesses and artists could learn much from each other - and indeed, how the future of the planet may even depend on these two worlds collaborating more closely. It's beautifully done and really breath-taking," she tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These are the conclusions at the heart of the inaugural assessment of priorities for strengthened international collaborative climate action, which has been led by the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions initiative. temperature goal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

"There are some hard facts: without secure and sustainable access to the necessary raw materials, our ambition to become the first climate neutral continent is at risk," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the 2022 State of the Union Address. The Commission is preparing new rules on critical raw materials.

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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.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

💨 Yard Stick , a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon monitoring platform, raised $11M in Series A funding from Toyota Ventures, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Lowercarbon, Breakthrough, and Pillar VC. In the News Fossil fuels were subsidized to a record $7T across the globe in 2022, the IMF reports.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, it seemed that the days of an oil-by-rail facility in Portland, Oregon, were numbered. “I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. In 2022, volumes jumped again, increasing to 374 million gallons.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. more than $900 billion in health expenses annually. Because so many plastics and petrochemical products are traded internationally, some endocrinologists and public health authorities believe a global approach is needed.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

RCPP and REAP have a proven track record of promoting sustainable farming practices and increasing the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency in rural communities RCPP Nebraska Soil Health A $4.4 Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95 Key Takeaways IRA adds $8.5 Phase-out starts the later of a) 2032 or b) when U.S.

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