Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The well-documented retreat of mountain glaciers will have severe ecological and societal costs as the shift to a post-glacial landscape represents one of the largest and fastest ongoing ecosystem changes. Mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are experiencing extensive and increasingly fast loss rates as global temperatures warm.

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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. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There have been growing calls for more robust policing and governance mechanisms in the rapidly-growing voluntary carbon market sector, amid concerns that a corporate rush towards carbon credits will fail to deliver promised benefits to the climate, biodiversity and communities living near offset projects.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

But documents on a Canadian forestry database also showed that just 11 per cent of the logs delivered to the two Drax pellet plants in the past year were classified as the lowest quality and unable to be used for wood products, the BBC investigation found.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Given agriculture accounts for almost 70 per cent of England's land mass, or around 8.9

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

On top of storing carbon, the trees planted through the programme protect soil, boost local biodiversity, and provide new income opportunities to farmers from timber and fruits, according to the company. Even if you put a dollar value to it, the dollar value on water and on biodiversity would be much bigger than carbon.".

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. You’ll use this platform to access various resources and tools, assemble your project team, collect any required documentation, and submit payment and your application for certification. Submit required documentation.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Researchers documented a hemlock stand that started producing carbon instead of sequestering it. The forest can behave as a source of carbon with the loss of the hemlock,” Orwig, who helped document that shift from sink to source in a 2020 study , said. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

There are not many uncontested benefits arising from Brexit, but there is a wide consensus that leaving the EU presents a once in a generation opportunity to improve the agricultural subsidy regime, providing a massive boost to UK biodiversity and sustainable farming practices in the process.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. As has been well documented, these impacts are reaching, and have arguably surpassed, crisis levels. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? Forest loss continues at an alarming rate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A key focus of the new ELM scheme will be delivering on targets in the government's 25 Year Environment Plan and the UK's statutory goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to the documents released today.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Restoring forests, then, would mean more protection for native wildlife, nurturing local biodiversity and the overall stewardship of the environment. Soil quality and quantity are maintained. Besides conserving the forest, its wildlife , soil and landscape, trees are imperative for the maintenance of local water resources.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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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. billion and 3.6

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

See the tracker here This is a living document, let us know if there’s anything we’re missing by submitting this form. 🌳 NatureMetrics , an Egham, United Kingdom-based DNA-based biodiversity monitoring platform, raised $13M.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

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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. Tip #6 – Go completely paperless : Instead of using paper documents, communicate through email, instant messenger chat, via video meetings, and save everything safely in the cloud. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

To begin with, the government would need to introduce targets that deliver improvements in four key priority areas, including air quality, water quality, nature and resource efficiency - although this could be broadened over time to other key areas such as soils. Legally binding green targets have strong backing from business.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a gift or have set a New Year’s resolution to be more organized, having a weekly planner is a great way to keep a record of important dates and documents. It means that the area is monitored to maintain biodiversity and replanting schedules. In fact, every component in the planners can be recycled.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Drawing on more than a hundred interviews, confidential legal filings, and corporate documents unearthed after years of reporting in Honduras, Lakhani paints an intimate portrait of an extraordinary woman in a state beholden to corporate powers, organised crime, and the United States. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Develop a plan document that outlines the terms and conditions of the plan. Select a plan provider.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 10, 2021

The problems with meat and seafood It’s well-documented that a plant-based diet is a huge win for the planet. Firstly, plants absorb carbon dioxide and store it in the soil , while releasing the oxygen we breathe. Secondly, overfishing is decimating the ocean ecosystem with a direct impact on all types of marine life.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Ambitious targets covering everything from waste and water quality to soil and air pollution are set to have huge influence, potentially providing a raft of environmental issues with a long term goal and focus akin to that provided for the net zero transition by the Climate Change Act and the CCC.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. USIPA, whose members include Drax and top pellet producers Granuul and Enviva, sent the document to select MEPs in early March.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

The UK now has a Critical Minerals Strategy , a document which sets out a broad vision for securing a steady and secure supply of minerals and metals needed to build the technologies that form the bedrock of a net zero economy, from electric vehicles to wind turbines. Reuse, recycling and energy efficiency.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Overwhelmingly, Assembly members supported natural solutions above all else as a means to both sequester carbon emissions and boost biodiversity. Nearly two thirds of Assembly members - 62 per cent - also backed enhancing the storage of carbon in the soil. Natural solutions are favoured over CO2 capture technologies.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We need to protect and improve the carbon sequestration by agricultural soils and grazing lands. Even what we think of as mature forests are still accumulating carbon because carbon makes up about roughly half of the dry weight of wood, but it is also in the soils. Even older forests continue to accumulate carbon in the soils.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Advocates point out that large bioenergy systems have the potential to not only displace fossil fuel emissions but sequester carbon in soils of feedstock crops, biochar, or when coupled with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS). (To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.)

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