GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

It is more urgent than ever to shift from linear, use-it-up-and-throw-it-away models to a circular economy: where waste and pollution are designed out, products and materials are kept in use for longer, and natural systems can regenerate. billion tons) and play a crucial role in averting the dangerous impacts of climate change.

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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. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. NFM is viewed as a key way to address the challenges of the biodiversity and climate crisis, by improving resilience to flooding, enhancing biodiversity, storing carbon and helping regulate the local climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change Alex Thornton Fri, 08/07/2020 – 00:30 How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? They act as oases for biodiversity, supporting up to 20 times as many species as non-native, managed forests. Photo by Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite being on the same west-facing elevation, one of those sections had been retrofitted with an exterior living wall façade, comprised of a flexible felt fabric sheet system with pockets allowing for soil and planting. lower than that of the original structure.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Contracts, however, are a secret weapon in the fight against climate change that are often forgotten. Every relationship and every transaction must change to recognise and stay within our planetary boundaries. The net zero transition requires a transformation of the way we do business.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Another shows that spending the same amount of money on clean energy to replace fossil fuels is more effective at reducing emissions, air pollution and other costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Climate change is likely to be the primary cause of the declines of some mountain plants such as Alpine Lady-fern, Alpine Speedwell and Snow Pearlwort which depend on areas where the snow lies late in the spring and summer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Many young people are already asking themselves these questions, and the answers are only getting more important with climate change. Climate change and food systems Extreme weather threatens food production cycles, and by extension, what food we each have access to. What food options do I even have access to?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between. Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Land use changes such as set-aside, switching arable to grassland or restricted hillside cropping, can improve infiltration and increase water retention.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Corporates' understanding of their impact on nature continues to lag far behind their understanding of their climate impact, according to a new report from the World Benchmarking Alliance. Companies must measure and report on how they interact with nature - including how their activities affect deforestation, pollution, and nature loss.".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This means the company would remove water from the pond, pack soil around it, then seal the ash with a combination of crushed rock, artificial turf and plastic. Before the Clean Air Act of 1970, things were easier for polluting industries, as they were free to pump coal ash into the air. Alabama Power says this is enough.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I've always found it curious how, on the whole, the business community has been much slower to ‘get' the seriousness of the global ecological crisis and the profound threat it poses to the future of business, the global economy and - well - humanity, as compared to the threat posed by climate change.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Flooding events are now becoming more common, with the adverse impacts of climate change taking the world to its grips. These flooding events have long been known for having a direct or indirect link with biodiversity loss. Every ecosystem is tied to its biodiversity, another fragile component of nature.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A stronger focus on "better regulation, not deregulation" after Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic are critical to helping businesses to thrive while protecting England's air, land and water from threats such as climate change, according to Environment Agency (EA) chief executive Sir James Bevan. for environmental offences.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The are beneficial in so many ways, including biodiversity, community cohesion, local food, carbon storage and human well-being. Here, they explain an approach called ‘nature-based solutions’ Orchards against climate change: nature-based solutions. We are also protecting our orchards against climate change.

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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.”. This threatens “many species on Earth, including our own,” the report warns.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Patrick Holden CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, HRH Prince of Wales, NFU President Minette Batters, Morrisons CEO David Potts, and others, are set to launch the initiative later today with at a virtual TEDx event titled Farming and Climate Change: Measuring Success.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues. Whilst the worst impacts of climate change are foreseen in the coming decades, I would argue that for some aspects of nature loss, they're already here.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The group added that the targets could be met through the development of a "climate smart" supply chain, including the adoption of science-based land management practices to maintain healthier soils, enable additional carbon sequestration, promote efficient water use, and increase biodiversity.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Runoff from fields also pollutes water bodies, leading to toxic algal blooms. Climate change is only exacerbating the problem, since warmer waters hold less oxygen to begin with. Cereal grasses use nitrogen that’s already in the soil — it comes from animal manure, as well as all the life churning in the dirt.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday confirmed service stations in Algeria ceased selling leaded petrol last month - the final country in the world where Tetraethyllead had still been available - officially drawing an end to the use of the highly toxic and polluting petrol additive worldwide.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change, such as building defences to protect against rising sea-levels, to reduce risk or benefit from opportunities where possible. The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Biodiversity. Climate finance.

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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. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files.

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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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