Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will. It’s not complicated,” Thiaw said. “It

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed climate change legislation committing the region to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, after draft legislation tabled by Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots was approved by the nation's lawmakers on Tuesday.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

"To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. Damaging climate impacts are inevitable, varied and here today. Net zero is unachievable without climate adaptation. Here are some of the top takeaways.

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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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. These natural assets are also fundamental tools in making places more resilient to the shocks of climate change and in locking away carbon. Far from it.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

In the recent high profile report by esteemed economist Professor Partha Dasgupta that was commissioned by the government - The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity - the key finding was clear: we must properly reflect the value of nature in our measures of economic success in order to counter the global decline in biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed. You would be hard pressed to argue the Treasury suddenly adopted a climate hawk mentality in the wake of its publication.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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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. Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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 And so, with proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury, he ploughed £3.3m

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The amount of land taken up by the animal livestock sector is disproportionate to the benefits it delivers to the UK's diets, while also posing a major threat to the UK's climate and biodiversity goals, the report concludes. The conclusions were also applauded by Helen Browning, chief executive of the Soil Association.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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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.

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

They offer shade, soil retention, healthier soil, carbon sequestration, and in some cases increase property value and even offer food. According to Kathleen, “Our goal ultimately is to make the lives of people better, reduce carbon, bring back biodiversity and look at a tree as the essence of life. The polls show this is 70%.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

The UK's climate advisory body has tabled an ambitious set of policy measures to deliver net zero farming – here are the key takeaways. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today unveiled what its chair Lord Deben described as "one of the most important reports that we have ever produced". We're not getting it.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

UK Prime Minister delivers passionate paean to green economy in major climate speech at UN General Assembly. Action on climate change means action on jobs. Greening the economy can grow the economy. We can achieve those ambitions if we take the action required ahead of @COP26. UNGA pic.twitter.com/6w0KT3AdFd.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Meanwhile, Britain will still no doubt perform dismally in the Eurovision Song Contest in May, and the global ecological and climate crisis escalates by the day. Plus ça change. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. That could have severe geo-political consequences. Inconvenient truth two: Climate change may make things worse before they get better. Two years ago I gave a speech called Defusing the Weatherbomb. • As our waters have improved, nature has recovered.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

In a remote and heavily forested region of northern Maine, a critical resource in the fight against climate change has been hiding beneath the trees. Those interpretations might be augmented with laboratory analyses of soil and rock samples, as well as data collected by aircraft and other remote sensing instruments.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. billion.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

As countries try to meet their climate change goals and businesses look to cancel out their carbon dioxide emissions, almost 2 billion trees are being planted every year. Trees lock away carbon in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots, making them an excellent partner in countering climate change.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 21, 2021

With neonicotinoids back in the news this month, Nick Mann of Habitat Aid shares his views on the growing threat they pose in combination with climate change. Then neonics started turning up in unexpected places – they weren’t just disappearing on contact with the soil but were mobile in the environment. The answer?

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