DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and academics have claimed that a UN summit focused on the future of agriculture helped to entrench corporate control over the global food system. Agriculture generates 34 percent of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s own Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. More so than any other sector of the UK economy, agriculture will look substantially different after Brexit.

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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

JUNE 29, 2021

The group added that the targets could be met through the development of a "climate smart" supply chain, including the adoption of science-based land management practices to maintain healthier soils, enable additional carbon sequestration, promote efficient water use, and increase biodiversity.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. This process yields biogas, predominantly composed of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be used as a fuel for heating, electricity generation, or as a natural gas alternative.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

The report from the Ruby Country Net Zero Beef Farming Forum is the result of work involving leading beef farmers, experts from agricultural research institute Rothamsted Research, and the University of Exeter. However, they told us a one-size fits all approach to net zero wouldn't work and they need further support to help with this.".

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed climate change legislation committing the region to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, after draft legislation tabled by Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots was approved by the nation's lawmakers on Tuesday.

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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. Defining 'regenerative' agriculture. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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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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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

"Planting trees without proper planning could have disastrous consequences, such as when tree-planting occurs on peatland which can result in releasing into the atmosphere vast quantities of carbon and methane that such areas naturally store," Bateman said. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Related: We need to talk about farming, agriculture and emissions This isn’t Cream Co.’s It’s bad for the environment in many ways, including sucking up resources, releasing high levels of methane and stripping the soil. Healthier soil increases the health of the animals and creates delicious, nutrient-dense food.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

and United Arab Emirates governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and food systems to support climate action. 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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Typically, a population will expand until it meets carrying capacity, or the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support without collapse; however, agriculture allowed humans to sidestep constraints of the natural environment, which gave way for society to continue to innovate and grow. .

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Biodiversity. These include CO2 sequestration or removal, protection from soil erosion and flood risk, habitats for wildlife, pollination and spaces for recreation and wellbeing. Anthropogenic.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The amount of land taken up by the animal livestock sector is disproportionate to the benefits it delivers to the UK's diets, while also posing a major threat to the UK's climate and biodiversity goals, the report concludes. The conclusions were also applauded by Helen Browning, chief executive of the Soil Association.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2022

There are big changes afoot for agriculture and land use in the UK. These targets cover a spectrum, including a legally binding aim for a net zero carbon economy and the mission to end nature decline by 2030, as well as commitments to protect 30 per cent of land for nature and reduce methane emissions by 30 per cent, also by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

And companies such as Ficosterra - which derives its name from ficos, the Greek word for algae, and terra, the Latin word for earth - believe seaweed can help transition farming back to the nature-based methods humankind used for millennia, before the invention of industrialized agriculture. A silent killer on a massive scale.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees? According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. with regenerative agriculture criteria. with regenerative agriculture criteria.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. This section also includes industry-specific waste items such as medical waste , agricultural waste , and oil and gas production waste. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees? According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. with regenerative agriculture criteria. with regenerative agriculture criteria.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. On top of that, 80% of all land available for agriculture is dedicated to meat consumption. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

Here, Danya Hakeem, our Director of Agriculture and Circular Economy Innovation, shares what drew her into her work, why Elemental is the right venue for the change she wants to see in the world, and what she’s excited to see flourish in 2020. You wear a couple different hats leading Elemental’s agriculture and circular economy work.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

This revolution will impact almost every part of the food system, from agriculture and ingredients to supply chains and workforces. Meet the Innovators Creating a Sustainable Food Sector: Startups working in food and agriculture raised almost $20 billion in funding in 2019.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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