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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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. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone has already demonstrated a 14% reduction in absolute methane emissions from 2018 and 2020, with successful projects that have demonstrated benefits for farmers in Africa, the European Union and U.S., while reducing emissions per gallon of milk. Plus, it’s good for corporate bottom lines and financial futures.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Your gift will produce oxygen, improve air quality, sequester CO2, help reduce urban heat gain, prevent soil erosion, provide windbreaks, feed people, support wildlife, reduce violence and bring people together, according to Tree People, a non-profit organization that supports trees. So, this year, consider giving a tree. Help plant a forest.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. In the United States, natural disasters, many made worse by climate change, caused $21.5 billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Department of State to share how their organizations are assessing climate risk and building climate resilience.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While the UK government claims that the country's emissions have fallen by 41 per cent since 1990, this figure is based on calculations that include only emissions produced on British soil.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe. The new fund aims to help boost soil health and farm resilience as Canadian potato farmers face the escalating impacts of climate change on yield and crop quality.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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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.”. Industrial agricultural methods, dubbed ‘Climate Smart Agriculture,’ promote the use of excessive chemical inputs on plants and in the soil.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

grant to support the 'Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe' project from the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Senegal has formally opened the first large-scale wind farm in West Africa, cutting the ribbon on a 158MW project developed by UK-based Lekela. million into severe hunger.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations' Glasgow Climate Summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Venus Lun, S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A variety of smaller, but significant, commitments on accelerating the energy transition, net zero steel production, fossil fuel phase-outs globally and specifically in South Africa, EV ambitions, and exploration of nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The idea is already spreading to other countries in Africa to address the ongoing food insecurity issues. Holganix Getting in at the ground level, Holganix is a company on a mission to continually develop natural products to enhance the soil and the resulting crops.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 28, 2017

Biological pest management and plant health product producer Marrone Bio Innovations has expanded its distribution to Africa this week selling its biofungicide to Morocco for use on tomatoes, grapes and cucurbits. Marrone Bio Innovations Ships Biologicals to Morocco. Biologicals Producer Inocucor to Open Production Facility in Denver.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 28, 2017

Biological pest management and plant health product producer Marrone Bio Innovations has expanded its distribution to Africa this week selling its biofungicide to Morocco for use on tomatoes, grapes and cucurbits. Marrone Bio Innovations Ships Biologicals to Morocco. Biologicals Producer Inocucor to Open Production Facility in Denver.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

His interest in environmental resilience was born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, after accompanying his father to the region to help with reconstruction. . Johnson’s earlier work, a few years ago and 10,000 miles away in Cape Town, South Africa, brought to life another area’s long-deferred hopes. That voice is powerful." .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

His interest in environmental resilience was born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, after accompanying his father to the region to help with reconstruction. Johnson’s earlier work, a few years ago and 10,000 miles away in Cape Town, South Africa, brought to life another area’s long-deferred hopes. That voice is powerful.”

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

  💨 Agricarbon , a Dundee, United Kingdom-based soil carbon measurement technology developer, raised $11M in Series A funding from Barclays and Shell Ventures. 🚗 BasiGo , a Nairobi, Kenya-based EV buses in Africa company, raised $5M in Debt funding from British International Investment.

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