Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The are beneficial in so many ways, including biodiversity, community cohesion, local food, carbon storage and human well-being. It is important that they provide benefits to both biodiversity and human wellbeing. NbS must support or enhance biodiversity. Let’s looks at why community orchards fit the bill.

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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.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

Although the ability to offset emissions with low-quality credits may “satisfy” net-zero claims, they often don’t deliver the promised climate benefits, and more importantly, perpetuate continued pollution. Given they are directly linked to burning fossil fuels, offsets of Scope 1 and 2 emissions should be truly net-zero.

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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. University of California fossil fuel-free after ditching $1bn of investments. The conditions will also apply to some of Canada's most polluting industries, including airlines and oil.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

5 opportunities of a circular economy David McGinty Fri, 03/05/2021 – 00:12 More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Take the textiles industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tip #3: Minimize fossil fuel usage by data centers. And the majority of this power is generated by the burning of fossil fuels. Effects include erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, plus contamination of soil, groundwater, and service water.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whether these write-downs were accelerated significantly by Covid-19 or simply part of a longer ongoing trend, they clearly demonstrated that the risks posed by climate change and the net zero transition are now firmly on the radar of some of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS? A SUMMARY OF BEST PRACTICES.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s At COP27 in Egypt, DeSmog revealed that the firm gained access via Brazil’s country delegation. “But

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy. Media Authorship.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity?

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Innovation marches forward. Innovation marches forward. A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

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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.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. She attributes her exploding case of asthma to air pollutants from the mill. “I communities and destroyed U.S. I use a nebulizer now.

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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. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution? Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

For example, 23,000 hectares of bioenergy crop cultivation each year, 30,000 hectares of tree planting, and a 50 per cent increase in upland peatland restoration, are all envisaged, alongside a move towards greener on-farm practices, such as controlled fertiliser use, flood protection measures, and improvements to soil health.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As Norton pointed out, deforestation presents long-term risks for companies and their investors "including decreased agricultural yields caused by depleted soils, regulatory risks, stranded assets, supply-chain disruptions and reputational fallout". Indeed, the initiative didn't even commit these institutions to stop financing fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

She says that Indigenous people occupy around 20% of the world’s land area, yet protect an estimated 80% of the remaining forest biodiversity. ” This loss is mirrored in the erosion of other cultural aspects, such as land stewardship. In short, we need to help them so they can help us all.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy.

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Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco, 2020 The author, an acclaimed journalist/cartoonist best known for his graphic novels about war zones, travels to a different kind of conflict: the fossil-fuel and mining industries’ destructive influence on a First Nations community in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Innovation marches forward A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

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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. Utilizing renewable energy sources diversifies your energy supply, reducing risk and dependence on finite fossil fuels.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

government frets over shortages of the metals and minerals needed to transition off fossil fuels, it also lacks the basic geological knowledge needed to say where many of those resources are. While the U.S. But the benefits of extracting those minerals, Riofrancos said, “should not be presumed.”

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