Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

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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. million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan set out his vision for Natural Flood Management (NFM) on 9 December. What is it?

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2022

It is time for soil health to rise up the climate agenda, in particular at the companies whose products depend on it, argues Moët Hennessy's Sandrine Somers. Healthy soil is the common thread between agriculture, viticulture, and fighting climate change. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. I think it's really important to reinforce the point that net zero doesn't solve this problem - the climate will go on changing, at least until 2050," she explained.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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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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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

AUGUST 11, 2020

McCains, the UK's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, has unveiled the 'McCain Potato Farmer Pledge' backed by a £25m investment designed to help its supply chain better manage the impact of both climate change and the coronavirus crisis.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

According to a slate of new scientific research published this week in Nature, however, the threats that climate change poses to these terrestrial carbon sinks are greater than previously understood. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

As part of the plan, farmers are provided with training and support as they adopt regenerative farming methods that reduce pesticide use, carbon emissions, and soil erosion, while simultaneously improving organic soil matter and biodiversity. We also know that this will only get worse due to climate change. "By

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Six new projects to explore how to maximise nature’s ability to capture carbon and minimise climate impacts Natural England has today announced £4.3m in new funding for a wave of projects that aim to trial the most effective ways of capturing CO2 and bolstering climate resilience using nature-based solutions.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. Instead, we need to plan better and - in some cases - adapt to future flooding and climate change.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. But the largest challenges we face are related to climate change. The pandemic has put a spotlight squarely on the precarious nature of our global food system," said Max Koeune, McCain's CEO. "The

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. The Lancet Via EurekAlert Image via Shutterstock.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With negotiations continuing through the weekend, Saturday has been designated 'Nature and Land-Use Day' and a raft of announcements are expected on how governments and businesses can ramp up efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, encourage greener farming practices, and bolster climate resilience across the agricultural supply chains.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. Other companies and industry allies can join us with strong, methane-specific targets and reporting as part of climate strategies.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Second, our nonprofit mission: Redesigning systems at the root of the climate crisis drives our work with startups, to help fast-track the sustainable and equitable deployment of technologies the world needs to help solve climate change. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Zero Carbon.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

What inspired you to work fighting climate change? If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. What’s one thing about climate innovation that you wish more people knew? That there’s hope!

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. based environmental organization.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to boost adoption of regenerative farming practices globally, in a bid to reduce the food system's significant impacts on climate and biodiversity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

HSBC has announced the birth of an innovative new green approach to asset management, outlining plans to partner with climate change consultancy Pollination Group to create a new investment fund focused on "natural capital". Investing in the resilience of nature is investing in the resilience of the economy," he added.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the plan, Nescafé said it would work with its coffee farmers to improve soil health and fertility, protect water resources, and support biodiversity in order to increase yields and help improve farmers' livelihoods, while also helping to sequester carbon through healthier soils.

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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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