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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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And some schemes in South Africa too? Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Maybe that’s more transparent, but it hasn’t been sustainable. Here are ways we can support the environment, regenerate the soil etc, but we don’t have the money. Is that right? Is that right?

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 Of the $12.5M invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The VCM Global Dialogue group, which aims to represent the interests of the stakeholders on the supply-side of voluntary carbon markets, yesterday set out guidance for how the emerging sector can best support sustainable development and climate action in developing counties.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Need for Sustainability. The need for sustainable e-commerce is growing as customers become more environmentally sensitive. Just think about this: According to WEP, consumers in wealthy nations squander nearly as much food annually as is produced in sub-Saharan Africa every year. E-commerce is expanding globally.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Polycare Research (Germany, South Africa) – produces reusable building elements with less material and less energy, enabling even non-professionals to construct sustainable buildings without heavy construction equipment.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2023

The Bolivian Association for the Research and Conservation of Andean-Amazonian Ecosystems ( ACEAA ) is incorporating the data into monitoring systems that strengthen indigenous territory surveillance and sustainable forest management. and many, many more!

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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.”. “We believe in the promise of improved production, precision agriculture, nutrient management, and enhanced efficiency fertilizers,” U.S. Vilsack said the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. Angelini was instrumental in setting two signature goals for 2030.

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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

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. Jess Newman is senior director of agriculture and sustainability at McCain Foods. Time to get started.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. 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.,

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

But it’s more than just another annual calendar date, as Nicki Lyons, Vodafone UK's chief corporate affairs & sustainability officer, explores Starting as a US-wide forum in reaction to a Californian oil spill, the inaugural Earth Day saw more than 20 million people take to the streets in peaceful protest. million.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Continue the dialogue about ESG and green finance with the invitation-only audience of sustainability, finance and investment leaders at GreenFin 22 , taking place in New York City, June 28-29.]. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“It’s important that we recognize dairy is not just about emissions,” Donald Moore, GDP’s executive director and the public face of P2DNZ, said during a presentation at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development last July. As Moore has said at various public appearances, anyone can become a P2DNZ supporter.

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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. They are more open to sustainable practices than older generations. percent of climate finance. It isn’t too late to turn the tide.

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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

What they suggest is quite radical,” said Lauren Gifford, associate director of the Soil Carbon Solutions Center at Colorado State University who was not involved in the research. For example, Blue Carbon, a company backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been buying enormous swaths of land in Africa to fuel its offsets program. “We

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. One Tree partnered with Kula Project to train local farmers in agronomy, technical skills and sustainable practices. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. million trees. +

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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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. A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

🌾 Trace Genomics , an Ames, IA-based soil analysis technology developer, raised $10m in Series B funding from Ajax Strategies, S2G Ventures, and Rabo Ventures. The goals require more than 400 companies to publish sustainability reports by 2026 to help standardize reporting and reduce greenwashing.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 17, 2023

This instilled in me the value of conserving resources and using them sustainably.” Areas of the world where solar panel soiling is a major problem—sunny, arid regions including the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa—are also prime spots for solar energy deployment.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Dubbed the Mobilising Finance for Forests Programme, the new initiative will see the government invest £150m in businesses and investors who support and deliver sustainable land-use projects and protect rainforest regions such as the Amazon and Indonesian basins. In addition to protecting 2.1

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Positive Livestock Content’ The documents also include a messaging summary with key talking points, which present meat as “sustainable nutrition” and suggest that meat production can be beneficial to the environment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying. Defining 'regenerative' agriculture.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. 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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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. The atmosphere is like a sponge: It sucks up water from soils, plants, rivers, oceans, and lakes. But scientists can say some things with certainty.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. sustainable infra fund.  fund that invests in sustainable infrastructure.   P.S. We’re hiring for an Account Exec at Sightline Climate, apply here.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This book aims to provide an overview of the relevant discourses, but also—and above all—a stimulus for fresh thinking, with new suggestions for the defence and further development of the concept of sustainable development.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. A sustainability strategy is no longer an option, it is now table stakes. They’ve been committed to sustainability for decades and a U.N. Global Compact member since 2008.

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