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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. billion people by 2050.

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Plant Lights and Environmental Conservation

The Environmental Blog

They address rampant challenges such as deforestation, energy overuse, and excess waste. By diminishing the reliance on traditional light sources, they champion energy conservation and slash emissions. Old-school farming techniques have their drawbacks, often guzzling resources like land, water, and power. stands out.

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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. This is followed by strategic greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives, the implementation of renewable energy solutions, and then carbon offsetting. The right carbon reduction service can offer you all of these.

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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

Business Green

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Biodiversity. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. Black carbon.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Nitrogen and phosphorous are both essential for plant growth, thus they are made into fertilizers that pollute waterways and coastal zones, and accumulate in the world’s soil and land. The WAIS holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by around 3.3

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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'Unintended consequences': Road to net-zero must harmonise different climate priorities, warns Nature Capital Committee

Business Green

For example, unregulated tree planting rolled out en masse in a bid to meet the government's manifesto pledges and reduce carbon emissions could inadvertently exacerbate global warming, the report suggests, highlighting how trees planted on peatland risk drying out carbon-rich soil and releasing more greenhouse gas than they capture.