Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Major new study from WWF argues previous food waste data is based on a major underestimate, thanks to huge amounts of food lost before it leaves the farm. The study, which is titled Driven to Waste and has been produced in partnership with supermarket Tesco, calculates that 1.2 It highlights how a total 4.4

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Farming and agriculture are essential for life to survive on earth. Agriculture and farming also affect global warming. Regenerative farming: Many experts have suggested that regenerative farming will help farmers save the earth and lessen agriculture’s impact on the motherland.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). Methane is released into the atmosphere by humans through three major categories: agriculture, energy and industry, and waste from homes and businesses.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

They address rampant challenges such as deforestation, energy overuse, and excess waste. In essence, LED grow lights epitomize the emblem of sustainability in modern agriculture and ecological defense. Precision agriculture, employing cutting-edge sensors and digital tools to real-time monitor crop vitality, soil moisture, etc.,

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Millions of hectares of the country’s land experience an annual rainfall of less than 30 mm, and some hectares of land which is suitable for agriculture are subjected to wind and water erosion, waterlogging, loss of organic matter and salinity. The study of glaciers provides the basis for climate change and global warming.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Ocean acidification is also caused by industry runoff and agricultural runoff, like pesticides and fertilizers, washing into the ocean. Use water wisely and intentionally, and try not to waste too much unnecessary water. Read more about how to reduce your carbon footprint in our article, “ Is It Possible to Prevent Global Warming? ”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Food loss and waste is another big environmental topic.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. Among the 80 solutions evaluated for their potential to reverse global warming, educating girls and ensuring women have access to family planning resources ranked No.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

These include slashing food waste and cutting down on meat consumption in favour of plant-based diets; preventing emissions of potent greenhouse gases from chemical refrigerants; and restoring temperate and tropical forests, which are strong natural carbon sinks. If we consider the monetary value of co-benefits (e.g.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

In this report, Environmental Defense Fund, along with experts at Deloitte, have provided example pathways for six key commodities aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) guidance for food companies to more strategically work toward these ambitious climate targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, Climate change is no longer a future problem.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The system will initially track emissions from large point sources in the oil and gas sector, before eventually integrating data from lower-emitting coal, waste, livestock, and rice sectors. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide, but it is significantly shorter lived.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A third of the world’s food production is at risk from climate breakdown, and climate disasters are already increasing malnutrition in some parts of the world, according to UN scientists at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. Use city yard waste collections.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. Relevant sectors include agriculture and the waste industry. The new sensor uses an interband cascade light emitting device (ICLED).

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste account for nearly a third of total global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report. billion tonnes - is lost or wasted every year. Most NDCs worldwide also neglect ambitious food waste commitments, the research found.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. Use city yard waste collections.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 10, 2021

Habits of Waste, a nonprofit environmental organization, was formed to support everyone in their desire to make an impact — no matter how large or small. The goal behind Habits of Waste is to empower individuals to feel okay with being imperfect. Habits of Waste was also behind the work to ban plastic straws and cutlery in Malibu.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

John Constable, energy editor at the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), will speak to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee on Tuesday morning as part of its inquiry, which also looks at the role of the energy regulator Ofgem in the transition to net zero. .

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030. Methane is the cheapest and fastest way to slow down global warming in the years ahead," said Timmermans. "If

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

In early March, global food giant Tyson unveiled a new beef product line at the 2023 annual industry meat conference. Named “Brazen TM Beef”, it was the first ever product of its kind to receive the “Climate-Friendly” stamp from the US Department of Agriculture. warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

New climate goal will require retailer to slash emissions generated in the production and end use of its products, from agriculture to food waste. It confirmed it had already written to all its suppliers to ask for their support in the transition to a low carbon economy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here are a few "Possible Climate Futures" as suggested in the report's Summary for Policymakers : Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

New report argues circular economy strategies could slash emissions across the global economy, reducing waste and climate impacts across the housing, mobility, and food sectors. Circular economy strategies have the potential to slash global greenhouse gas emissions by 39 per cent, saving 22.8

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have risen by 20 per cent from pre-industrial levels, with agriculture responsible for the lion's share of the increase, researchers from Auburn University in Alabama found. Still, further efforts will be required, in Europe as well as globally.".

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors. Agriculture, forestry and other types of land use account for 23% of human greenhouse gas emissions,” said Jim Skea, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III, another contributor. “At

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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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Green Living Guy

JULY 14, 2021

The eco-conscious movement swept through the agricultural industry decades before rooftop solar panels, and electric vehicles hit the market. Rachel Carson wrote the infamous book, Silent Spring, exposing the adverse ecological impacts of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). The popular insecticide decreased the sustainability of U.S.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

First generation biofuels use agricultural crops. Second generation biofuels aspire to use industrial, agricultural, municipal or household waste, such as: used cooking oil, fat, corn husks, forest resources, or food waste. Subsidies for biofuels risk wasting public money on a false solution.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A month after the food summit, P2DNZ made a splash at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture – himself the former CEO of a major dairy industry lobbying firm – expressed his department’s “strong support”. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

This seems to imply that, somehow, both nature and humanity are being ignored in the global development discourse. The development approach following the five stages of growth , propounded by WW Rostow, is a move from agriculture to mass consumption through industrialisation and urbanisation.

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