Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Commercial agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation across the world, with land dedicated to growing trees and other plants cleared to grow crops or support livestock, causing soil erosion and animal and plant extinction. By protecting the environment, wildlife and biodiverse habitats we can help prevent the next pandemic.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

According to the best available science, we now have less than a decade to undertake civilization-scale, concerted action if we are to avoid ‘locking in’ the worst effects of climate change, and the risks from the collapse of biodiversity and the loss of nature are no less existential. Consider agriculture. This is inherently unsustainable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. Those invasives, the study says, will cause major impacts to biodiversity around the world. Then if you think, wait, what if we lost all hemlocks?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen. million metric tons from 2.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R. Irvine, Aletta Bonn, 2019 This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services. Political advocacy.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Agricultural transformation to systems that work with nature, that support carbon sequestration, renew soils and biodiversity, will be essential to enabling viable, thriving food production. The future of food is regenerative.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We need to protect and improve the carbon sequestration by agricultural soils and grazing lands. Even what we think of as mature forests are still accumulating carbon because carbon makes up about roughly half of the dry weight of wood, but it is also in the soils. Even older forests continue to accumulate carbon in the soils.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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