Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

trillion in nature is required over the next three decades to successfully tackle the climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises, according to the WEF’s “State of Finance for Nature” report released on 27 May. Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. “The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Bosses of 12 agriculture and food businesses announce they will work together to push sustainable farming practices into the mainstream. The bosses of a dozen of world's largest food companies have created an action plan which aims to make regenerative farming approaches more accessible to farmers around the world.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. We rely on the biodiversity of the planet's ecosystem to provide oxygen, pollination of plants, food and much more, making this a crucial time to act.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2024

Drawing on examples from around the world, her speech and presentation - which touched on what regenerative agriculture, precision farming, and other sustainable practices can offer a pathway to a more sustainable future - can be watched back in full below.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unaddressed. The biodiversity crisis is a crisis because it won't just kill the plants and animals it is killing," he is to say. "It It will kill us too.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This year more than ever, food and agriculture sector issues were front of mind in the conversation, given companies even more opportunities and resources to take action. I came away with three main takeaways for companies in the food and agriculture sector: It’s time to act 2030 is fast approaching and a changing climate is already here.

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The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2023

The service, industrial and agricultural sectors have flourished. Over the past two decades, Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills – has made remarkable strides: poverty has significantly declined and quality of life has improved. Even in the aftermath.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Greater diversity gives greater resilience According to the researchers, a likely reason behind the result is that different tree species occupy different positions, or ‘niches’, within an ecosystem. As a result, diverse mixtures complement each other to increase overall functioning and stability of the ecosystem.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2021

In tandem, Europe has also launched a new 2030 Biodiversity Strategy which requires Member States to commit to important targets to restore biodiversity. Both initiatives are integral parts of Europe’s response to the current global climate and biodiversity crises. The panel included: .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers. Food & Agriculture. Pull Quote. Deforestation. BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Essentially, we need to plan further ahead than most policy makers' timelines to help the capital become more resilient to future environmental shocks. Nature-based solutions will be an important part of efforts to create great new city environments that also enhance biodiversity and enable active living.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. Defining 'regenerative' agriculture. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The government has today celebrated the passage into law of its Agriculture Bill, providing the legal framework for its post-Brexit plan to reform subsidies to ensure farmers and landowners only receive public money in return for delivering public goods.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. Yet beyond product innovation, the report warns food firms are not doing nearly enough to build resilience in their supply chains against drought and other climate-related risks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. Yet beyond product innovation, the report warns food firms are not doing nearly enough to build resilience against drought and other climate-related risks. But a better future is possible.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

And as extreme weather events become more rampant, it’s increasingly important that farmers have the resources they need to integrate climate smart agriculture practices to ensure our communities have a reliable food supply. Enter, Climate Smart Ag So, what is climate-smart agriculture and how can it help?

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It also builds on the company's existing 'Farms of the Future' initiative, which aims to promote regenerative farming practices that can enhance biodiversity and soil health. McCain is one of a number of leading food brands to step up investment in enhancing the climate resilience of their supply chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023, CC BY-ND. And nearly all of us use fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and products from intensive agriculture. Here’s the sum total of our impact on the planet.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With negotiations continuing through the weekend, Saturday has been designated 'Nature and Land-Use Day' and a raft of announcements are expected on how governments and businesses can ramp up efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, encourage greener farming practices, and bolster climate resilience across the agricultural supply chains.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

The principles of a circular economy offer a helpful framework to envision a more resilient and regenerative alternative — and chefs might be the missing ingredient to successfully realizing a new model. . When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . in São Paulo.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. Subscribe here.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

McCain Foods' Jess Newman reflects on how companies can best embrace regenerative agriculture, in particular across speciality crop production. We know significant research is still needed and it can take 10 years or more to see the full benefits of regenerative agriculture practices. How will it affect the bottom line?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Land management could make or break the UK's net zero transition, yet agriculture few sectors without its own decarbonisation strategy, writes WWF's Jo Furtado. Yet, our agricultural emissions have been mostly static for a decade and have even increased in some areas of the UK.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. But the debate embodies the agricultural industry in the era of climate change: As ecosystems shift and extreme weather makes farming even more precarious, ranchers are facing tough decisions about how to adapt their land use practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality. Global food security remains threatened as many farmers struggle to afford sufficient phosphorus fertiliser for their crops.

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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. It is time that they were rewarded for doing so.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

More than 20 projects across England aimed at restoring nature, reducing flood risk, cutting carbon, and boosting biodiversity win support through Landscape Recovery Scheme fund. This is such good news A major boost for biodiversity, carbon storage, drought mitigation, reduced flooding, improved water quality… & jobs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics – a firm working at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics – explains, and relates how this knowledge provides a more solid underpinning for sustainable agricultural innovation. Over-reliance on nitrogen fertilizers is leading to the collapse of soil biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to step up its climate adaptation and resilience efforts.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. 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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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF). COPA-COGECA. Hero Foods.

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