Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. This technology is invaluable for monitoring landscapes, biodiversity, and changes in terrain over time.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Soil Plastics 130

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Food and drink giant's roadmap includes major focus on scaling up regenerative agriculture across supply chains worldwide as it sets sights on net zero by 2050. The roadmap sketches a wide-ranging strategy for how the firm will adjust its operations and agricultural practices over the next decade to drive progress towards these goals.

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Agriculture Carbon-neutral Climate change Soil 98

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Innovative trial will use household food and green waste Replacing the estimated 1.7 The funding will support an initial 18-month trial that will look to enhance the quality and consistency of composted materials derived from waste streams, in a specific area. Scottish Government is currently consulting on this issue.

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Sustainability Waste Waste Retail 165

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Sustainability challenges in agriculture Outdoor agriculture (pasture and cropland) occupies around half of the planet’s habitable land, and so-called modern agricultural practices have enabled the production of increased food volumes at relatively low prices. billion people by 2050.

Energy Monitor 147

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Solar Energy Monitor 147

GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. Food & Agriculture. emissions. .

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Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 430

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

Toast Ale - which specialises in using waste bread to brew beer, delivering significant emissions reductions in the process - became the first UK brewery to certify as a B Corp in 2018. The company today also announced that it is looking to "go beyond carbon neutrality" by investing in UK regenerative agriculture practices.

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Carbon-neutral Soil Agriculture Biodiversity 83

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

Building Energy Monitoring 74

Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil 74

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 94

Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health. The need for organic agriculture.

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Soil Health Agriculture Biodiversity 94

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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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 98

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. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about. No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 142

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

The maker of Jim Beam and Maker's Mark is to pilot a cocktail of best practices designed to enhance carbon capture and water, waste, and energy efficiency in the agave fields near its Casa Sauza operations as part of a year-long pilot with environmental professional services firm Red BioTerra.

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Carbon Soil Agriculture Biodiversity 41

Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took centre stage.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Biodiversity 88

Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Soil Biodiversity 93

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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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 22, 2023

Projects should consider the application of cascading residual geothermal waste heat to neighbouring industries or the built environment and should include the integration of geothermal and heat pump systems, energy piles, or energy sheet pile walls, consider the use of alternative cycle working media.

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Cooling Innovation Soil Biodiversity 52

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Degraded peatlands will be re-wetted and replanted in the Pennines and west Wales, while rock chips that absorb CO2 as they break down in soil will be tested on farms in Devon, Hertfordshire and mid-Wales. In degraded soils, the rock chips can also help reverse acidification and replenish essential plant nutrients.

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Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 137

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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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 97

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

It's illustrated again the importance of our relationship with nature and the importance of treating nature with respect, and that the loss of biodiversity and climate change are two sides of the same coin. It is climate change that is sadly driving the loss of much of our nature and much of our biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Health 78

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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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Last year, the government said the decision to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops would support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025. Peatlands must be better protected as a matter of urgency."

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Government Waste Waste Retail 69

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Climate strategies to date have targeted production efficiency, minimising waste, substituting decarbonised energy and transport, and offsetting. Shifts that account for growers' livelihoods, the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and more. Minimising food waste and shifting to renewable energy will be just the start.

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Agriculture Resilience Biodiversity Carbon 83

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Other key areas of focus in the ESG strategy include sustainable farming, driving down packaging waste, and further slashing its water use, the latter of which is backed by a goal to replenish 100 per cent of the water used at Carlsberg breweries in high water risk areas by 2030. This is the right thing to do, for our business and society.".

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Agriculture 78

Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 148

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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Meat alternatives Soil Climate change Biodiversity 41

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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Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 77

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage. Wood and Processing Wastes. Agricultural Crops and Waste Materials.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 78

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

The Green revolution brought about in India in 1960s was a game changer, it revolutionized agricultural production and perpetuated a paradigm shift in the Agrarian scenario. The Green revolution brought about in the 1960s was a game changer, it revolutionized agricultural production and perpetuated a paradigm shift in the Agrarian scenario.

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Energy Monitor Health Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 195

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. Nature is in long term decline, with one million animal and plant species currently facing extinction.

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Biodiversity Health Climate change Soil 36

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

"Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledged. Eighty-nine percent of our water footprint is from agriculture. That is why it's very important for us to have an opinion about the agriculture model we want.".

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring 415

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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Government Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 41

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Industrial agriculture and giant monoculture farms dominate our food sector. Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. His vision of a UK agriculture that can provide this is diverse and locally-focused. But does it have to be that way?

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Added to that, without us honouring our contracts with growers and finding alternative outlets, they would have been left with a huge surplus of wasted potatoes due to COVID-19 shutting down the hospitality industry.".

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Resilience Investment Waste Waste 91

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

In addition to using more sustainable packaging, the pilot will see the beer giant use barley malt cultivated using fully organic and regenerative agricultural practices in partnership with its supplier Soufflet.

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Packaging Sustainability Plastics Soil 36

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage.

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Agriculture Climate change Soil Biodiversity 28