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Ethical beef? Fresh range goes UK-wide with 'wildlife-friendly' red meat

Business Green

Online ethical grocer Fresh-range announces it is to expand its operations to cover England, Wales, and most of Scotland. There has been widespread coverage of the outsize environmental impact of eating lamb and beef in recent years, but now a new range of products is aiming to try and make red meat ethical again.

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Does offsetting really distract from carbon reductions?

Terra Infirma

One of the allegations flung at the Net Zero concept, and Carbon Neutral before it, is that the offsetting element acts like a get out of jail free card, letting polluters carry on emitting with their conscience clear. Thirdly, under Net Zero, there is a much bigger focus on carbon reductions than under its predecessor Carbon Neutral.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Low carbon diamonds? De Beers pledges to reach carbon neutrality across operations by 2030

Business Green

New climate target will be achieved by transitioning mining operations to clean energy, improving energy efficiency, developing proprietary carbon capture technology and purchasing offsets, company said.

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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. Here’s how major environmental components benefit from these innovative practices: Reduction of carbon footprint.

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Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK

Grist

Climate-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in major new trials across the United Kingdom. The best large-scale ways to use trees to capture carbon will also be examined across the UK, including on Ministry of Defence and National Trust land. Enhanced rock weathering.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

But even if we are really successful with renewables and clean tech, we will still have to take millions of tonnes of carbon down from the atmosphere. The new regime will shift towards an economic rewards system that actually encourages carbon sequestration in woodlands and soils, as well as biodiversity uplift."

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