Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

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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. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. How does that work? These insights are key to helping them scale their risk calculation capabilities.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Climate investing in 2021. Source: 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Exacerbated by climate change, what sets these flash droughts apart is that, coupled with extended periods of low rainfall, spiking heatwaves drive extreme evaporation. Imagine an insatiably thirsty atmosphere that gets so hot and dry that it literally sucks the water right out of crops and the soil.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange's Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Robert Cardillo , Planet Federal’s Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board, was joined by Christine Urbanowicz , Senior Spatial Geospatial Data Scientist, USAID , Kathleen White , Program Director of Climate Change, DoD OSD ODASD (E&ER), U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said it was exciting to see the strong focus on forests at this week’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in Egypt, with Australia joining world leaders in committing to halting forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

Emissions are expected to rise again as economies restart after Covid-19, but net zero may still be possible with help from the world's forests and soils, explains Beth Burks of S&P Global Ratings. Hidden potential: soils and forests. The world's soils and forests have the potential to offset 3.3-6.8 gigatons (Gt) and 8.2-10.1

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Drinks giant Diageo has announced plans to invest £450,000 in innovations that can monitor and lessen the impact of the climate and water crises on smallholder farms in Africa. Even under the 1.5C Even under the 1.5C

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Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

A high-pressure system called an anticyclone reached the region from Africa and created a heat dome , thrusting the sizzling peninsula into peril with both atmospheric and land surface temperatures (LST) routinely exceeding 40°C (104°F) across the region. Climate change has a tendency to speed up the clock.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Aptly named, Justdiggit supports local farmers and pastoralists in Tanzania and Kenya to use accessible tools, like shovels, to dig bunds—semi-circular shaped pits that help the soil capture rainwater. With 300,000 hectares under regreening, Justdiggit and their partners have already brought back over 10 million trees in sub-Saharan Africa.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. percent of climate finance. For these communities, climate change is existential. If they can’t harvest, they can’t eat.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

South Africa mines 72 percent of world’s platinum output, and China has greatly increased its investments there, too. . And climate change can’t be fixed until the metals problem is solved. Australia produces 55 percent of world’s lithium, and China is its major importer. to fill the mining gap. "How

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This year, record heat and climate-fueled disasters have devastated our communities. Investors and innovators are taking note, and are pouring in to address climate change. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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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. Other companies and industry allies can join us with strong, methane-specific targets and reporting as part of climate strategies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says carbon removal will be “ required ” to meet climate targets, and the United States Department of Energy has a goal of bringing the cost down to $100 per ton (a price point Spiritus claims it wants to deliver as well ). We need a really big conversation reframe.”

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Climate change is an existential threat to the potato industry. In all regions, we are seeing escalating climate variability: cool springs, blazing heat domes, early frosts, unseasonable rain, and more. They know climate change is threatening that dream but are also nervous about new expectations.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Thanks to high precision modeling, they determined that most tropical forest aspects, including the soil , trees, and living organisms, can be restored to their natural state over time. Compared to planting new trees, it performs way better in terms of biodiversity , climate change mitigation and recovering nutrients,” said Poorter.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Ecommerce businesses gain from this in various ways, such as enhancing their corporate reputation, being ready for climate change policies, maintaining industry competition, and appealing to consumers and workers.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

As countries try to meet their climate change goals and businesses look to cancel out their carbon dioxide emissions, almost 2 billion trees are being planted every year. Trees lock away carbon in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots, making them an excellent partner in countering climate change.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

a prominent theory for its sudden explosion has emerged: climate change. The pathogen was first identified 14 years ago in Japan and then found to have emerged spontaneously in three countries on three continents: Venezuela, India, and South Africa. auris, Ostrosky said that climate change is the most widely accepted one.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide within ecosystems, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Wildebeest are particularly effective allies in the climate fight.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It keeps the focus broad, promoting itself as a leader on climate change while simultaneously downplaying global warming’s significance vis-a-vis other issues and espousing solutions that can serve the industry. But the track record in East Africa of one of its founding partners and other supporters gives a flavour of what’s to come.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2023

This includes helping better understand land use conversion in southern Africa, as well as supporting Cambodia in its UNFCCC reporting. Instituto Patrimonio Historico e Artistico Nacional in Brazil is using the data to detect deforestation and/or soil movement on unpermitted archaeological sites. and many, many more!

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A US-led sustainable farming initiative, which aims to raise billions of dollars to tackle climate change, has been criticized for favouring big business and promoting uncertain techno-fixes ahead of U.N. climate talks in Egypt in November. Launched at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last year by the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past century, the toxic additive has contaminated air, dust, soil, drinking water, and food crops, with hugely damaging impacts on human health, including heart disease, strokes and cancer, in addition to affecting the development of the human brain, especially in children.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We are clear that there is no pathway to tackling climate change that does not involve the recovery of nature.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. Not only is climate change threatening food security worldwide; more than one-third of global emissions come from food and farming. .

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

billion acres of forest the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report estimates are needed to revitalize to keep to a 1.5C Most only value the carbon weight of the trunk of the tree and don't capture the full value of the roots, soil and canopy. And those 2.3

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Credit: Extreme E "Not only will this site provide one of the most dramatic and extreme race courses we have seen in our global journey, it will tell a poignant story about transition and the changing of courses that the energy industry and communities must all take if we are to succeed in the fight against climate change," he said.

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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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