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. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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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. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

million hectares of peatland are in a degraded state and are no longer actively sequestering carbon, citing figures that suggest the habitat could now be emitting more carbon annually than the nation's agricultural sector. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land. 2017, Faulk, 2019).

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Twenty-year research project comprising 30 million records unearths 'powerful and concerning' human impact on native plants A new publication from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) has revealed a catastrophic decline in native plants caused by climate change and intensive agricultural practices.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

We should claim back our food heritage and fight climate change with nutritious foods that benefit the soils we're rapidly depleting, argues Bold Beans founder Amelia Christie-Miller. If the government acts decisively, we can tackle the three pronged challenges of climate change mitigation, biodiversity net gain and the obesity crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

Negative emission technologies (NETs) also known as carbon capture or carbon sequestration are a necessary technological innovation. Rising emissions and dwindling carbon budgets make it abundantly clear that we need to find a way to drastically reduce atmospheric carbon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Farmers must avoid the pitfalls of a "false choice" between nature protection and food production, as building nature recovery into Britain's agricultural practices is the only way to put both society and the economy on a sustainable footing, Natural England chair Tony Juniper is expected to say later.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This is a forward pathway in which new, sustainable business models scale, where the goals of the global economy broaden to include rebuilding social and environmental value, where practices such as regenerative agriculture scale and where nature-based solutions become the norm. But what do we mean by systemic change? Decide where to act.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Eastman is one of the largest U.S. Media Source.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. .

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Following a public consultation which concluded earlier this year, the government said it would start to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops within two years in order to support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

The economic foundations of today’s food and agricultural systems continue to be dominated by a singular focus on productivity and increased yields. At the same time, the positive externalities — carbon sequestration, pollination services, health and wellbeing and vibrant cultural traditions — also go unappreciated. Lauren Baker.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

This lifecycle starts with the sourcing of natural resources via agriculture, to the distribution of ingredients to manufacture food items, and then the transportation of these food items across the globe for their consumption and disposal. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But climate change is not the only ecological threat - it is widely agreed that damage to the natural environment and loss of biodiversity pose a comparable risk. Whether it is raw materials, water, flood protection, biodiversity or pollination, nature provides most of the capital businesses need for the production of goods and services.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The joint statement calls on the government to urgently provide more "vision, clarity, and detail" over the rollout of its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, which were envisaged as post-Brexit replacements for the EU's Common Agriculture Policy but have been beset by political wrangling and repeated ministerial changes within government.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Eastman is one of the largest U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Accounting for all the pluses and minuses in food systems Lauren Baker Thu, 05/27/2021 – 01:00 The economic foundations of today’s food and agricultural systems continue to be dominated by a singular focus on productivity and increased yields.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. On top of that, 80% of all land available for agriculture is dedicated to meat consumption. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Absolutely.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

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