Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To help scale research in this field, Horizon Europe , the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation, now supports a number of novel projects that can reveal insights into exploring, quantifying, and validating efficient carbon farming practices. . CEO and Co-Founder of Gilab.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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Energy Monitor Carbon-neutral Agriculture Soil 110

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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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? ” 2. .”

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

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Soil Association reveals that lockdown sparked a sales surge for organic certified products. Louisa Pharaoh, director of fundraising at the Soil Association, said: "Organic September is a brilliant opportunity for us to talk to people about the Soil Association and all the work we are doing to restore nature, health and a safe climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Beer giant's partnership with the Paper Bottle Company and Avantium leads to Europe-wide trial of new Fibre Bottle. The outer shell of the bottle, produced by the packaging manufacturer The Paper Bottle Company (Paboco), consists of sustainably-sourced wood fibre and is also bio-based.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our infrastructure can be established in almost any country in the world, regardless of climate and soil quality, giving economically disadvantaged and water-scarce regions the opportunity to transform their food supply chains and revolutionise their economies by ultimately evolving from net food importers to becoming entirely self-sufficient."

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

To coincide with new sustainability strategy agri-business giant Syngenta releases poll showing growing concern worldwide about impact of climate change on crop yields and farmers. Indeed, 63 per cent said climate change would have a greater impact on their business than coronavirus over the next five years, according to the poll.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. But what are so-called 'nature-based solutions'?

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 22, 2023

” The tender will be under the HORIZON programme and will be part of the call for “Sustainable, secure, and competitive energy supply.” Activities are required to assess the environmental sustainability of geothermal heating and/or cooling applications.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

These included “showing the general public that French agriculture is sustainable and respectful of the environment” and that “it takes into account the expectations of society and younger generations”. France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Brewing giant claims regenerative agriculture programme is among largest ever in Ireland and will help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. We already use regenerative agricultural practices and have seen a marked improvement in the quality of the soil on our farm.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

A leaked version of the European Commission's green recovery plan suggests the bloc will focus on ramping up hydrogen production and expanding renewables capacity, as well renovating Europe's housing stock and decarbonising transport systems, as its attempts to revive the bloc's coronavirus-stricken economy.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Before European settlers arrived, the land Pepperwood now stewards sustained around 100 trees of varying sizes and species per acre. Thirty years later, it tightened that approach, striving to extinguish all fires by 10 a.m.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 88

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. A commercial business with sustainability and tech for good at its core, Dryad was set up in 2020 with a mission to digitize the forest and help protect and regrow the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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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. Glad to see your commitment in paving the way towards a sustainable future, strengthened through the adoption of a quantitative BAU target and increased sectoral coverage of the #NDC.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 91

Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

to wood pellets that can be burned to produce electricity in Europe and elsewhere. We need to protect and improve the carbon sequestration by agricultural soils and grazing lands. Even older forests continue to accumulate carbon in the soils. and in Europe? And, by the way, which biodiversity are we shortest of?

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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. Sarah Nelson is senior economist in economics & sustainability at Oxford Economics

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Carbon-negative Health 51

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The BBC has been accused of “selling the public’s trust” by producing “totally biased” documentaries on the future of sustainable food sponsored by Corteva, one of the world’s largest pesticide firms, potentially in breach of the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines. billion in 2021.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Technology Energy Monitor 85

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

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

JULY 26, 2022

BusinessGreen gets the low-down from green experts on the government’s vision for building up a sustainable supply of critical cleantech minerals and metals. The Strategy also sets out a plan to maximise domestic production of minerals from UK soil, where possible. Diversifying supply chains. Reuse, recycling and energy efficiency.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past century, the toxic additive has contaminated air, dust, soil, drinking water, and food crops, with hugely damaging impacts on human health, including heart disease, strokes and cancer, in addition to affecting the development of the human brain, especially in children.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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Methane Biodiversity Carbon Soil 65

Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

You might well think the UK's green and pleasant land is a perfect ally in tackling climate change, able to soak carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it as carbon in the leaves, trunks and roots of our much-loved flora and in the soils beneath. So, do these plans match the lofty ambitions? How to grow a forest.

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Soil Government Agriculture Climate change 39

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries. Positive Livestock Content’ The documents also include a messaging summary with key talking points, which present meat as “sustainable nutrition” and suggest that meat production can be beneficial to the environment.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A US-led sustainable farming initiative, which aims to raise billions of dollars to tackle climate change, has been criticized for favouring big business and promoting uncertain techno-fixes ahead of U.N. A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable. A Narrow Vision of Agriculture.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 86

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 111

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 97

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. SUSTAINABILITY AND BUSINESS Humans in the Global Ecosystem: An Introduction to Sustainable Development, by Pierre Ibisch, 2020 The term “sustainability” is on everyone’s lips, but nevertheless we struggle to transpose the idea into our economic and social structures. Climate impacts 2.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

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

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