ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 22, 2023

It must be ensured that negative impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, including negative impacts on (or pollution affecting) air, water or soil quality, are addressed through mitigation policies. The applied technologies should not significantly harm the environment (Do No Significant Harm principle).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. Salomé Roynel from campaign group Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN) called the PR partnership a “well-known tactic”.

Agriculture 84

Agriculture Health Europe Biodiversity 84

Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The case for action is clear and many businesses, investors and policy makers are asking big questions in search of the best solutions, such as: Should we be growing insects to feed animals instead of importing soy linked to deforestation? There is noticeable improvement in biodiversity, soil health and rebalancing of ecosystems.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Ignoring the risks that biodiversity loss can create for operations and supply chains is risky business, writes Oxford Economics' Sarah Nelson Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to pause. Along with increasing in importance, however, environmental concerns are diversifying.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Rather than relying on unreliable traditional growing cycles, soil health or weather conditions to grow crops, urban centres should turn to a range of tech-based solutions such as vertical farms and precision greenhouses to bolster their food supplies, while supporting and expanding community gardens and urban food forests.". by 2035 and?

Agriculture 69

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

Fossil fuels 92

Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 92

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. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

Agriculture 88

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 88

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A clutch of sobering reports published this week that set out the threat posed to the global economy by nature and biodiversity loss have further bolstered the case for nation states and businesses to funnel investment into nature-based solutions that can slow escalating climate impacts.

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Resilience Biodiversity North America Climate change 99

Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

These authors designed their analyses so that satellite data producers can convey a comparable, reliable, and consistent message on global biomass estimation methods to create actionable policy impacts. Pairs plot comparing mean AGB at the ecoregion level between Diligence, GEDI L4B, and ESA CCI. What’s next for the Forest Ecosystems team?

Carbon 137

Carbon Policy Technology Innovation 137

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 18 works in the exhibition encompassed visual art, sculpture, film, and sound, taking visitors on a journey through forests, soils, seas, cities, and innovations. Dubbed 'Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest', by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Andres Roberts, the work in question is the very first visitors saw upon entering the exhibition.

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Fashion Soil Innovation Sustainability 68

Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

The world lost a football pitch of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest every six seconds through the course of 2019, as almost 120,000 square kilometres were destroyed - an area larger than Cuba, Portugal, or Austria - principally to make way for the production of agricultural commodities.

Agriculture 54

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But it also highlights work carried out by the three organisations in recent years aimed at developing policy and strategies to build greater resilience to coastal erosion and flooding as severe weather increases in future, and suggested the government should take heed of this advice.

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Resilience Government Climate change Agriculture 58

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 142

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Carbon Foregone.

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon 108

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And And so, with proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury, he ploughed £3.3m

Ethics 36

Ethics Biodiversity Carbon Agriculture 36

Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While voluntary carbon markets and policy regulations are rapidly evolving, we need corporations to develop sound, tactical strategies for managing their emissions abatement and removal. Most notably, these include increased biodiversity, food security, job creation, and adaptation. What to Do About Scope 3 Carbon Offsets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. In its 2024 manifesto, PVV says it plans to “overhaul” European climate and energy policies.

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Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring Climate change Organic 99

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 46

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This aims to promote a new farming model that rewards climate-friendly practices via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and efficient carbon markets. There is common understanding that Earth Observation data is the primary technology to support and monitor the implementation of the policies,” said Proti ?. “It

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Agriculture Sustainability 98

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity.

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation. It has been getting easier.

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Business Energy Monitoring Government Sustainability Health 40

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The insatiable demand for consumer wood products has been the primary cause of deforestation there, but the growing new demand is for wood pellets that are burned in overseas biomass plants to produce electricity, primarily in Europe. It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Analysis by DeSmog found that more than two thirds of some 300 partners are located in the United States or Europe.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 86

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

How can they accelerate their still underpowered decarbonisation efforts at the same time as bolstering climate resilience, especially when governments are routinely failing to provide the necessary policy frameworks and underlying infrastructure investment?

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Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

But for the green economy, the clearest continuity with the past few years is also the least welcome: the huge chasm of political and policy uncertainty that stretched across almost every aspect of the Brexit process will still be there tomorrow. Plus ça change.

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Government Policy Agriculture Law 41

Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Government Politics 62

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So far, the farmers have won key concessions, with the EU decision on Tuesday to drop its plans to cut pesticide use, hot on the heels of the same move by France on Friday, despite numbers of birds and pollinators plummeting in Europe. Yet the reality on the ground in Brussels last week was more mixed.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Europe Biodiversity 122

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. Europe is the leading consumer region of wood pellets globally. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Logging Carbon-neutral Europe 98

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Agricultural transformation to systems that work with nature, that support carbon sequestration, renew soils and biodiversity, will be essential to enabling viable, thriving food production. This is not just a challenge for developing regions - more than 33 million people across Europe are at risk of malnutrition.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

There are no new policies or funding announcements, but the roadmap does set out how the government anticipates working with industry, financiers and other global leaders to reach its aim of stable, sustainable mineral supplies. The Strategy also sets out a plan to maximise domestic production of minerals from UK soil, where possible.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. In this session, entrepreneurs, policy experts and investors will forecast the future of the market and explain how your company can capture a part of it. That economy is now taking shape.

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

William Moomaw has had a distinguished career as a physical chemist and environmental scientist, helping found the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and serving as lead author on five reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. and in Europe? billion tons.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Biodiversity Soil 91

Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

She found that current carbon accumulation rates vary by a factor of a hundred, depending on climate, soils, altitude, and terrain. But overall, besides being better for biodiversity, the study showed, natural regeneration can capture more carbon more quickly and more securely than plantations. million acres.

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Soil Carbon Climate change Organic 110

Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

But a lot of countries in Europe have done better than Sweden. Talking about academics, how can academics influence policy makers when the corporate world has so much sway, and the corporate world sure as hell don’t want anyone to question economic growth? So Sweden has a much better performance than the UK. Lockdown saves lives.

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