DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. Biodiverse crops: Just four crops provide 60% of the world’s calories.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It comes just weeks after COP26 talks drew to a dramatic close with 196 countries agreeing to a host of fresh commitments as part of the Glasgow Climate Pact, including the "phase down" of unabated coal power, the phase out of "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies, and ramping delivery of climate finance.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. We must simultaneously transition away from fossil fuels while we remove the nearly 50% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide seen since the dawn of the industrial era. Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems.

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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. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tech startup sustainability demands startup founders, owners, and operators to follow an effective sustainability program. In terms of the environment, research from the Center for Research into Energy Demand Solutions at the University of Sussex (UK) found that working from home can reduce an employee’s emissions by up to 80%.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. This is exactly what cogeneration power plants do.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse. This can sometimes be difficult when developing healthcare facilities, however it is important as it ensures natural sustainability and keeps our air, water and soil clean and healthy.

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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 26, 2020

Analysis by Carbon Tracker last week tallied up total oil sector write-downs at $87bn over the past nine months, thanks to a combination of lower oil demand and the accelerating clean energy transition. Similarly with soil erosion, mangrove destruction, and loss of peatland, all of which pose myriad threats to both climate and nature.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  The S&P Global Clean Energy index dropped 30% YTD weighed down by higher interest rates and supply / demand imbalances.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action.]. billion people.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels. where population density is lower).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

5 opportunities of a circular economy David McGinty Fri, 03/05/2021 – 00:12 More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. percent gets recycled and used again.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

That is the core message from research by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) this week, which outlines a set of five key actions banks and other financial firms can take to help respond to the biodiversity and climate crises, de-risking their investments in the process.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Typically, the talk is about demand side interventions, like you can get schools or, or individuals to give up meat,” she says. But I’m a little worried that some of this [meat] production is so baked into subsidies and policy, that even with decreased demand, this apparatus will just keep flowing. “We

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

At the same time, it would create enormous demand for forest and other biomass and come at serious risks for land use, agriculture and biodiversity in the UK and abroad.".

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. 🌳 NatureMetrics , an Egham, United Kingdom-based DNA-based biodiversity monitoring platform, raised $13M. Danish crowns ($3.9B

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

These include a growing world population, unsustainable consumption, a rapidly increasing number of people living in cities, significant inequality, continuing poverty, land degradation, biodiversity loss due to land-use change, ocean pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction as well as a global pandemic.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. Yet the most common waste types here are industrial non-hazardous waste and fossil fuel combustion waste. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

For example, 23,000 hectares of bioenergy crop cultivation each year, 30,000 hectares of tree planting, and a 50 per cent increase in upland peatland restoration, are all envisaged, alongside a move towards greener on-farm practices, such as controlled fertiliser use, flood protection measures, and improvements to soil health.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. A mixed result of negotiations was that mention of the reduction of fossil fuels was included in the final agreement for the first time since the original 1995 COP.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

All this comes at the same time the demand for food is rising and may increase by 100 percent by 2050 as the global population soars from 7.6 And as the world shifts from fossil fuels to plant-based materials, such as biofuels or bioplastics, experts say it will require a 30 percent increase in agricultural production.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Access to affordable, quality healthcare keeps employees healthy, making sure they’re able to come to work and meet work demands.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

government frets over shortages of the metals and minerals needed to transition off fossil fuels, it also lacks the basic geological knowledge needed to say where many of those resources are. While the U.S. But the benefits of extracting those minerals, Riofrancos said, “should not be presumed.”

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. What can we learn from these early implementations?

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