Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If you are an innovator interested in redesigning our food & agriculture systems and developing nature-based solutions with our Director of Innovation Mitch Rubin , learn more about our funding opportunities and apply today! What areas in food, agriculture, and nature-based solutions are ripe for innovation in 2022? of global GHGs.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

billion acres of forest to the world could limit global warming to 1.5 suggests that adding 2.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. But some researchers aren't so sure.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Recently dubbed regenerative agriculture, the concept is simple. What is regenerative agriculture? Regenerative agriculture describes farming practices that create a cycle of caring for the soil through responsible grazing and land management. Why do we need regenerative agriculture?

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In essence, LED grow lights epitomize the emblem of sustainability in modern agriculture and ecological defense. More so, felling trees for farming doesn’t just decimate habitats but propels global warming as carbon dioxide-absorbing trees vanish, thereby inflating the carbon trail of farming. stands out.

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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.”. More than anything, industrial agriculture has played an outsized role. degrees Celsius.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector. billion people by 2050.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 degree warming targets , unless they are slowed down. And it creates a new level of ambition on methane emissions that I hope others in the food and agriculture industry will follow. The good news?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The evidence against big agriculture’s role in driving the climate crisis is growing. of global warming. But in order to bring about the rapid, deep cuts to emissions that would slow global heating, the agriculture industry’s solutions need to be… well, serious and genuine.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. A neglected terrain? Until now, rangelands have rarely featured on international agendas.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

The rising acidity of the ocean is not only harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems, but is impacting human industries that rely on the ocean’s resources. Ocean acidification is also caused by industry runoff and agricultural runoff, like pesticides and fertilizers, washing into the ocean. Use natural fertilizers and pesticides.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

It then finds and develops habitats to plant trees and enhance biodiversity as part of a sustainable cycle. Wildlife biologist Eleanor Shield said: “Human activities have caused global warming, which is increasing to dangerous levels.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Their plan is to act on a large scale against global warming by providing simple and powerful tools to farmers that can monitor carbon sequestration on their farms. . Thanks to joint work with researchers, we identified the possibility to measure carbon sequestration in agriculture with satellite data.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency. billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. What concerns you about the current global food system when it comes to environmental sustainability and human health? To reach a 1.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Architects of Paris Agreement urge world leaders to deliver equally ambitious treaty for nature at upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit. There is no pathway to limiting global warming to 1.5C COP15 is a momentous opportunity to transition the global economy to one that works with nature, rather than against it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen. Sir David Attenborough said: "The survival of the natural world depends on maintaining its complexity, its biodiversity.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

But what is less clear is how this global warming will translate into increased weather extremes and how these extremes will then impact hugely complex human infrastructure, agricultural systems, and the economies they underpin.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

It comes as retailers in the UK face growing pressure to curb the amount of deforestation and land use conversion caused by their supply chains, amidst reports that deforestation of climate-critical and biodiverse rich tropical forests driven by livestock and agricultural production are at an all-time high.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

However, as Henry Stanier, Wildlife Trust Monitoring and Research Officer, explains; “Nothing could be further from the truth; human activity, mostly driven by agriculture, has focused primarily on water levels, and this has had a profound effect on the local ecology.”.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues. It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

global warming scenario - the more ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement - palm oil prices could rise by 29 per cent and the cost of undeveloped plantation land could rise by 52 per cent, presenting significant challenges for Indonesia's palm oil industry. The research warns that under a 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2022

In any case, the Alps - or the countries and regions sharing the Alps - will need to find a way to manage water availability… to have enough water for agriculture, energy production, domestic use, tourism, at the right time and in the right location.". "This is particularly challenging in areas which already fight for water usage.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees or even 2 degrees Celsius.”. degree C rise.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It was also the year that “solutioneering” took hold in agriculture – source of 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions – as major players announced net zero plans and began to push harder on sometimes fanciful technologies (think: capturing cow burps), at the expense of the deeper transformations needed to safeguard nature and the climate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In October, the CSB, a group of business leaders appointed to advise Defra on how businesses can achieve the government's 25 Year Environment Plan, launched the 'Get Nature Positive Campaign' to rally business efforts to protect biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, disclosure on forest impacts - often at the root of supply chains and highly vulnerable to the expansion of agricultural frontier, a key driver of climate change - remained weak, with just 18 per cent of food retailers and 28 per cent of primary food producers disclosing information on their forest impacts to CDP.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The bank confirmed it is working on a roadmap to reach its 2035 goal and will submit its plan to the Science Based Targets initiative, the independent network for assessing whether businesses climate targets are in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C. We are in the decisive decade.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the Holocene , humans depended on large, cold-adapted animals for food such as the wooly mammoth; however, once the glaciers receded, humans hunted the last of the large mammals, and the planetary conditions began to warm, humans switched to hunting smaller game and increased their gathering of plants.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity. The 2015 Paris climate change agreement set a headline target to limit global warming to 1.5

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