Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. Soil should be healthy, waterways protected and the health and wellbeing of workers guaranteed. The fertilizers are all wasted.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. But what are so-called 'nature-based solutions'?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. They are more open to sustainable practices than older generations. percent of climate finance. It isn’t too late to turn the tide.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Organic urban agriculture, renewable energy and beautiful landscaping come together at the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF), Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm that spans 236,806 square feet. Read more from the original source: Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm can grow 20 tons of food annually.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The findings come amid soaring food and energy prices, driven in part by the conflict in Ukraine, which had been one of the world's largest wheat producers and exporters, and crippling heat waves in parts of Europe and Asia that have impacted agricultural yields.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Dubbed the Mobilising Finance for Forests Programme, the new initiative will see the government invest £150m in businesses and investors who support and deliver sustainable land-use projects and protect rainforest regions such as the Amazon and Indonesian basins. In addition to protecting 2.1

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Your gift will produce oxygen, improve air quality, sequester CO2, help reduce urban heat gain, prevent soil erosion, provide windbreaks, feed people, support wildlife, reduce violence and bring people together, according to Tree People, a non-profit organization that supports trees. So, this year, consider giving a tree. Help plant a forest.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world. Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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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. "The

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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. "The

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Positive Livestock Content’ The documents also include a messaging summary with key talking points, which present meat as “sustainable nutrition” and suggest that meat production can be beneficial to the environment.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

One Tree partnered with Kula Project to train local farmers in agronomy, technical skills and sustainable practices. Once the coffee Arabica seedlings mature, they should provide a sustainable income for up to three decades. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Following the unexpected deaths of two close friends, she took a year to travel and soul search, which ultimately led her to pursue sustainable architecture. And your family?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Focusing on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education , with an architectural emphasis on integral sustainability, Camp Trivera is the first Girl Scouts campground of its kind. Inhabitat: What are some of the sustainability design aspects of this project? How will it limit environmental impact? Excerpt from:Â .

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

However, the report - which draws on an SMF roundtable that was sponsored by Impossible Foods - argues that the absence of a formal strategy from the UK government for supporting the nascent market contrasts with ambitious plans from governments in Europe and Asia.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Glad to see your commitment in paving the way towards a sustainable future, strengthened through the adoption of a quantitative BAU target and increased sectoral coverage of the #NDC. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa welcomed the Rwanda's submission. ????Congratulations — Patricia Espinosa C. PEspinosaC) May 20, 2020.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

With a national average of 232 people/km2, Vietnam has the highest population density in Southeast Asia after Singapore. Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Inter- and intra-seasonal rainfall, drought, and dry season will be seen more significantly.

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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. At the same time, these measures will help prevent further deforestation and fight climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Europe opens largest solar plant, Poland advances SMR plans, and Canada seeks more sustainable potatoes in this week's Global Briefing. There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Asia dominates the market with 97.4 They just need a way to sustain themselves," said co-founder and CEO Andrés Bisonó León, a Dominican Republic native. The birth of what is essentially a new industry (outside of Asia anyway) doesn't happen overnight, and investors don't always have a lot of patience.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 26, 2019

For folks who read — and write — about sustainability, dire projections are revealed every day. Banana leaves as packaging If you’ve ever had the good fortune to visit a southern Indian restaurant in Asia, you may have been served dinner on a banana leaf instead of a plate. However, 2019 also brought good news.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Chief executive Hugo Verkuil reflects that plant-based meat has arrived at a major tipping point, driven by big improvements in the taste of alternative meat products and an animal-borne pandemic that has encouraged people to cook more creatively at home and think more sustainability and carefully about the food system.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Maybe that’s more transparent, but it hasn’t been sustainable. Here are ways we can support the environment, regenerate the soil etc, but we don’t have the money. Most land in Kenya was fertile soil 200 years ago. Brazil is amazing.

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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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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Planting garlic ( Allium sativum ), a crop native to Central Asia and grown for more than 5,000 years, is a quintessential fall garden activity. Plant cloves two to three inches deep into loose soil with the pointed end covered but going up. When you apply the mulch, sprinkle a little loose soil over the mulch and wet it down.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. SUSTAINABILITY AND BUSINESS Humans in the Global Ecosystem: An Introduction to Sustainable Development, by Pierre Ibisch, 2020 The term “sustainability” is on everyone’s lips, but nevertheless we struggle to transpose the idea into our economic and social structures. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Even if they’re moderately successful, they’ll have an opportunity to capture a meaningful portion of the $1.5

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

All eyes were on the Asia-Pacific region as Planet gathered the Earth observation community from key global industries with leading experts, research innovators, and industry disruptors from all parts of the world in Planet On The Road 2023. A complete overhaul of our analytics pipelines for faster analysis-ready and reliable data.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Thanks to dire warnings from scientists and economists alike, there is growing understanding that nature loss, climate change, and other sustainability priorities, such as social inequalities, need to be tackled together to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), she tells BusinessGreen.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. Angelini was instrumental in setting two signature goals for 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. 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

The upcoming UN Food Systems Summit highlights the urgent need to produce and consume food more sustainably, explains Forum for the Future’s Lesley Mitchell. As the United Nations Food Systems Summit approaches, the spotlight has been cast on the urgent need to produce and consume food more sustainably.

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