DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 28, 2020

Due to the Pandemic world’s economy, Business Operation, Education, Transportation, Agriculture, and many other aspects of life remains stand still. NASA is monitoring our present environmental change, and for this NASA uses (OMI) Ozone Monitoring Instrument to realize the real changes of our present atmosphere condition in the globe.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

sources include vehicle emissions, coal-burning power plants, industrial emissions, and burning agricultural waste. The NOx gases are chemically reactive, and so tend to contribute to the formation of other pollutants such as ozone and PM2.5. Between NO2 and PM2.5, exceed the WHO’s guidelines (5?g.m3). contributes to this effect.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2021

In the atmosphere, there have been significant increases in the amount of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases that reduce the concentration of ozone (O3) and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O). What Are the Gases Causing Global Warming?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This approach is far from ideal and ignores other key players such as pharmaceutical companies and agriculture when tackling micropollutants. Farming and agriculture Agriculture can contribute to micropollutant contamination in several ways, primarily via the use of pesticides.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

While use of chemical warfare agents like sulfur mustard – better known as mustard gas – is banned internationally, we do rely on other strictly-controlled chemicals for agriculture, industry and throughout our daily lives, including fumigants like methyl iodide, which is used to control insects and fungi.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Scientists have warned this afternoon that targeted action to slash methane emissions across the oil and gas, agriculture and waste sectors is one of the easiest and most cost-effective strategies ways to curb global temperature rise.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

By investing in this fund, customers can help address some of the global challenges we face in areas such as climate change, sustainable agriculture, pollution and renewable energy.". Scottish Widows said the relaunch of the fund was the latest step it had taken to achieve net zero by mid-century across its entire portfolio.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. The comparatively calm, warm conditions of the Holocene encouraged the development of agriculture.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Agricultural worker during wildfire smoke episode. 2021) predict that agricultural workers will have a 35 percent increase in wildfire smoke exposure days across California by mid-century.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. The authors of the study suggest the use of nitrogen fertilizer in regions where there is already a large nitrogen surplus will have to be reduced, to achieve N20 emissions targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Kerry said the partners behind the Pledge are now working on methane reduction pathways for the global waste sector and the agriculture and food industry, both of which are among the leading contributors to methane emissions alongside oil and gas. Implementation of the Pledge is now really moving forward," said Kerry at the event.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

.” Related: Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , “Pollutants with the strongest evidence for public health concerns include particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2).” It’s a win-win.”

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The nine planetary Boundaries are: Stratospheric ozone: filters ultraviolet rays (UVR) coming from the sun, which would otherwise place the system is at risk. Freshwater: freshwater is severely affected by climate change and human activities such as deforestation, agricultural need, urbanisation, and industrialisation.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Healthy soil is critical for environmental sustainability, food security and the agricultural economy — even large food companies are starting to fold soil health efforts into their sustainability programs as they understand the impact it has on creating a viable, cost-effective supply chain. . And now we have the tools to investigate. .

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.” ” These VOCs not only spell trouble for the environment but for human health, too. ” Via Grist , Smithsonian and JSTOR Daily Images via Pixabay.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Prior governmental analyses only scrutinized costs related to property, agriculture and infrastructure losses. But with the NRDC-UCSF findings, links can now be established correlating health data with climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fluorinated gases are another, less prevalent type of GHG that are still significant as they have a long atmospheric lifetime and are attributed to ozone depletion. . 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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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Moreover, campaigners allege that none of the governments to have signed the pledge have yet set out comprehensive plans to cut emissions across all the three key sectors that drive methane emissions: agriculture, energy, and waste. trajectory. of global heating by the 2040s. It is also a call for deeper, more transformational change.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Healthy soil is critical for environmental sustainability, food security and the agricultural economy — even large food companies are starting to fold soil health efforts into their sustainability programs as they understand the impact it has on creating a viable, cost-effective supply chain. And now we have the tools to investigate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The White House enjoyed a surprise breakthrough earlier this year when it secured bipartisan backing for the Kigali Amendment, which requires signatories to phase out HFCs alongside the ozone-destroying CFCs that were covered by the original Montral Protocol.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). What’s the relevance of these different GHGs to carbon accounting?

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. But Ohio’s agriculture nutrient-reduction strategy has yet to show results.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell’s emphasis on scientific uncertainty was evident again two years later, in September 1992, when the company’s Group Planning department published a “ Business Environment Occasional Paper ” on the “Potential Augmented Greenhouse Effect, & Depletion of the Ozone Layer.”

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He meets with innovators and change-makers in technology, civil society, agriculture, education, and sustainability. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground presents Harrelson’s story of discovery as he looks into regenerative agriculture and how it can be used to mitigate our climate and environmental crises. 7: I Am Greta.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 23, 2020

Everyone was saying the right things, and to some extent doing the right things – passing legislation on water, on air, fixing the hole in the ozone layer. As the debate went on, it turned out that my pro-capitalist opponent was a member of a community energy scheme and a community-supported agriculture scheme. Those things happened.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For starters although it was finalized in energy legislation, it was an amendment to the Clean Air Act to remove the oxygen requirement in reformulated gasoline used in the nation’s largest cities to control ozone. Third was the need to increase demand for agricultural products and provide a stimulus to the rural economy.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. In June of 1988 James E.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

When action is taken on these so-called classical pollutants - particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), ozone (O2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) - it also has an impact on other damaging pollutants, according to WHO. The world is at a crossroads.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

However, to fulfill a campaign promise to farmers, Trump removed Obama-era clean water protections intended to protect rivers, streams, wetlands and other bodies of water from pollution and runoff from industrial facilities and agriculture.

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