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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #1: Renewable energy.

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Are Food Systems Harming the Planet?

Sustainability Consulting

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 Food distribution and processing methods have become more energy intensive since the 1990s, even in the developing world where the use of mechanization and pesticides has grown rapidly. ? Packaging accounts for 5.4%

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Negative Emission Technologies are Our Last Hope

Green Market Oracle

However, other NETs are ready to be deployed at scale, this includes land management practices that store more carbon in agricultural soils and forests. We cannot afford to ignore proven approaches, such as improving energy efficiency, promoting cleaner transport, eating less meat and scaling up renewable energies.

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The critical role of biodiversity in creating business value

Business Green

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

” The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined.