Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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Soil Fossil fuels COP Climate change 46

Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health.

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Soil Health Agriculture Biodiversity 93

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Projects can range from local planting of trees to the funding of projects that empower families in developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Carbon-neutral Policy Carbon Carbon-negative 111

GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Soil Agriculture Health Meat alternatives 288

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. based environmental organization.

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Building Energy Monitoring Soil Agriculture Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Leaded petrol is no longer officially being sold or used anywhere in the world, in a move hailed by the UN as "a huge milestone for global health and out environment" and an exemplar of successful multilateral efforts to phase out harmful fossil fuels. Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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Health Fossil fuels Africa Pollution 94

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Another shows that spending the same amount of money on clean energy to replace fossil fuels is more effective at reducing emissions, air pollution and other costs.

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Climate change Carbon Fossil fuels Soil 93

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, last week’s Food Systems Summit illustrated the rift between agribusiness giants and smaller food producers about how to transform the food system to achieve these cuts and address hunger, malnutrition and biodiversity loss. This data typically isn’t owned by farmers.

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Agriculture Biodiversity Fossil fuels Methane 92

Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 142

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said.

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Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 137

Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

It estimates the trial could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 per cent in the first year alone compared to using conventional fertiliser, which is typically made from ammonia produced using fossil fuels and also releases nitrous oxide emissions when used.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Waste Waste 79

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Degraded peatlands will be re-wetted and replanted in the Pennines and west Wales, while rock chips that absorb CO2 as they break down in soil will be tested on farms in Devon, Hertfordshire and mid-Wales. In degraded soils, the rock chips can also help reverse acidification and replenish essential plant nutrients.

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Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 135

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. Biodiverse crops: Just four crops provide 60% of the world’s calories.

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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 52

EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Even if we completely eliminated fossil fuel emissions today, global food system emissions would cause us to exceed our 1.5 Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. The good news?

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Methane Agriculture Climate change Global warming 98

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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Biodiversity Climate change Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 72

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. We must simultaneously transition away from fossil fuels while we remove the nearly 50% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide seen since the dawn of the industrial era. Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems.

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Stormwater Resilience Smart Cities Startups 98

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. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 97

Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As a refresher, Scope 1 emissions are those directly produced from combustion of fossil fuels in the furnaces, boilers, or vehicles owned by a company. Scope 2 emissions come from all the electricity, steam, heat, and cooling that a company purchases to run its operations, which is often first produced by combusting fossil fuels.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Organic 64

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. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 92

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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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

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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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

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?

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon 108

Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse. This can sometimes be difficult when developing healthcare facilities, however it is important as it ensures natural sustainability and keeps our air, water and soil clean and healthy.

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Health Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 76

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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Business Energy Monitoring Startups Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 147

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. where population density is lower).

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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.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action.].

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

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. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

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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Climate change Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil 101

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said.

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Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 52

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. percent gets recycled and used again.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Fossil fuels 28

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. Industrial monocultures are destroying ecosystems, poisoning watercourses and removing soil, and don’t produce as much per hectare as small farms anyway. But not enough people want to be small farmers, do they?

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

That is the core message from research by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) this week, which outlines a set of five key actions banks and other financial firms can take to help respond to the biodiversity and climate crises, de-risking their investments in the process.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Government Policy 70