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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. Mitigation of soil degradation. Preservation of natural resources.

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Forget me not: The importance of COP15

Business Green

The RSPB's Mark Varney sets out why the outcome of the upcoming biodiversity talks in Montreal matters for anyone with a stake in the UK food system. Next month, COP15 on biodiversity will take place in Montreal, seeking to implement the protocols of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. But why does biodiversity matter?

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Waitrose to ban sales of peat compost from 2022

Business Green

Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership, stressed that peat bogs were critical carbon stores that would help tackle the climate crisis. "If Restoring peatland is vital to tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity.

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

Business Green

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And So that's my aspiration."

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You are invited to 'New Climate Conversations: where we go from here' with E8 and Climate Solutions

E8 Cleantech Angels

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Drivers of Change. Stay tuned for Conversation II.

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

Grist

Degraded peatlands will be re-wetted and replanted in the Pennines and west Wales, while rock chips that absorb CO2 as they break down in soil will be tested on farms in Devon, Hertfordshire and mid-Wales. The coordination hub for the new trials will consider the social, ethical, and legal issues related to removing carbon.

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You are invited to 'New Climate Conversations: where we go from here' with E8 and Climate Solutions

E8 Cleantech Angels

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate. Drivers of Change. Stay tuned for Conversation II.