Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

A major report exploring the potential role of different types of 'nature-based solutions' in tackling climate change in the UK has raised the alarm over the need to restore the nation's degraded peatlands. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon 49

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Organic 64

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

Energy Monitor 147

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Demand 147

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Thinking about these three focus areas, are they enough to infer whether an organization is sustainable or not?

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The changing natural settings of ecosystems, due to human activities, have increased the risks of sudden collapse and irreversible changes. The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services.

Biodiversity 53

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Resilience Real Estate 53

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene. The Anthropocene.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 142

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 94

Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. He’s also a climate tech entrepreneur. Meet Mitchell Hora.

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Soil Carbon Carbon-negative Agriculture 52

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

“We are thrilled to announce the selection of Greentown Labs’ inaugural location in partnership with RMC, the City of Houston, the Partnership, and leading global energy and climate impact-focused companies,” said Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs. “In gener8tor, Impact Hub Houston, and others.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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Organic Ethics Government Sustainability 78

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

Biodiversity 50

Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 50

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging.

Sustainability 539

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 539

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Industrial poultry operations are also a startling contributor to climate change. Though the poultry industry is responsible for less greenhouse gas per unit of meat than beef or dairy, its effect on the climate is substantial. In West and Southern Africa, the rate was substantially higher. “As

Africa 94

Africa Agriculture Health Investment 94

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The wood pellets Drax produces are treated as “carbon neutral” under international accounting rules, based on an assumption that new-growth trees will capture the carbon lost by wood burnt for electricity. Drax already operates 18 wood pellet plants across the U.S. But scientists and campaigners have long disputed these claims.

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Logging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Health 129

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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Ocean acidification Carbon Carbon-negative Energy Monitor 476

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

If planned wisely, population decline could, in the words of British conservationist David Attenborough, provide an opportunity to "rewild" nature by relieving major stress points upon critical ecosystems and species that could enable a gradual regeneration of biodiversity. Innovation marches forward.

Politics 466

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 466

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Every proactive and positive thing we do, has an adverse reaction.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. But how long can tropical forests remain one of Earth’s greatest carbon sinks?

Africa 72

Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

That’s despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. The question is whether states can regulate and try cases having to do with climate change.

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Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 28

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. It was social media kryptonite.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Biodiversity Waste 87

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

According to Stanford Social Innovation Review, 90% of CEOs know sustainability is vital for their company’s success in today’s changing business landscape. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic Energy Monitor 78

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The last few hundred years of human activity have stored up changes in climate that threaten human existence. But climate change is not the only ecological threat - it is widely agreed that damage to the natural environment and loss of biodiversity pose a comparable risk. What is natural capital?

Biodiversity 48

Biodiversity Climate change Investment Soil 48

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. "It Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

Climate change 147

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

At CES 2020, French startup myfood presented a smart greenhouse that it says can grow up to 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of organic fruits and vegetables a year with only a few hours of work a week. The startup has distributed nearly 200 smart greenhouses in 14 countries around the world and hopes to target the North American market next.

Energy Monitor 36

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 36

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

If planned wisely, population decline could, in the words of British conservationist David Attenborough, provide an opportunity to “rewild” nature by relieving major stress points upon critical ecosystems and species that could enable a gradual regeneration of biodiversity.

Politics 36

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world.".

Biodiversity 87

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Politics Agriculture 87

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Disruptive Software That Fights Climate Change. Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. decline in GDP per capita due to climate change and is set to lose $83 billion by 2050 from biodiversity loss.

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Technology Climate change Biodiversity Sustainability 147