DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

of global warming. We also plan to take a closer look at influential groups such as the UAE-US led Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate (or “AIM for Climate”), which last year attracted criticism for favouring big business and promoting uncertain techno-fixes.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. Innovation – a research facility has been established to trial new crops and different growing conditions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Architects, urban planners, building managers and developers need to implement and apply new guidelines and innovative design and technology solutions that minimize the impact of heat on buildings and their surroundings and better accommodate the needs of building users.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. It found food companies are responding to growing consumer demand for healthy and sustainable products primarily through product innovation, such as alternative meat made from plant proteins.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

As we recruit for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. What’s one thing about climate innovation that you wish more people knew? That there’s hope! One third of crop land in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. But we can only do it by joining forces.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

It comes as retailers in the UK face growing pressure to curb the amount of deforestation and land use conversion caused by their supply chains, amidst reports that deforestation of climate-critical and biodiverse rich tropical forests driven by livestock and agricultural production are at an all-time high. To limit global warming to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C A properly functioning carbon price covering a large number of countries would send clear signals across global supply chains and help address the distributional impacts of the energy transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Alongside climate change, we are also facing a biodiversity crisis. The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), guides companies towards targets that tackle global warming while boosting competitiveness. The Amazon has suffered four severe droughts in less than eight years.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9 percent of the world population were undernourished.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry specializing in innovative solutions to environmental protection. About the author: Dr. Torill Bigg is the chief carbon reduction engineer at Tunley Engineering.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The update also calls on industry players to step up efforts to avoid negative environmental and biodiversity impacts, contribute to responsible ocean governance, and enable more sustainable decision making through transparency and accountability.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

A record $1.4tr was poured into renewables globally last year - investment that's expected to keep growing, hitting $2tr annually by 2030. Venture capital is already moving through the pipeline the kinds of innovation, ranging from clean cement to hydrogen technologies, that jumpstart new markets and investment opportunities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity. Data from the race is contributing to the development of a map of plastic in the ocean and helping inform understanding of how microplastics transfer into marine ecosystems. degrees Celsius.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s such that when I researched laundry sheets, I struggled to discern whether “polyvinyl alcohol” which was farther identified as “a biodegradable monomer/polymer” was an innovative solution or waffle-stomping to avoid saying it’s plastic. Even now, I’m not 100% certain.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Global warming of 1.5 C An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 GtCO 2 per year.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The report suggests that embracing more sustainable practices at the level of feed-production could play a crucial role in limiting global warming, while also addressing other major issues such as land use change, deforestation, and falling biodiversity - all of which are impacted by feed production.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The report suggests that embracing more sustainable practices at the level of feed-production could play a crucial role in limiting global warming, while also addressing other major issues such as land use change, deforestation, and falling biodiversity - all of which are impacted by feed production.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Covering 71 per cent of our planet's surface, oceans are both vital to sustaining human and natural life on Earth and a key part of tackling the dual crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss. These impacts are only expected to get worse with global warming reaching 1.5°C °C and beyond.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet growth in global emissions has also slowed, and the authors of today's report maintain that mobilising the finance, scaling up the technologies, and incentivising behaviour changes needed to drive a "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use" remains eminently feasible and - crucially - affordable. °C," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale. Last year, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears. I am confident that in due course, with resilience and determination, when it is safe to meet in-person again, we will hold these meetings and advance on our journey to Kunming and the successful adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.".

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations? “Negative emissions—”Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects.”

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

In order to help ramp up these vast and wide-ranging green business opportunities across virtually all sectors of the global economy, the WEF today called on government finance ministers to place the right incentives in place alongside recovery stimulus measures.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. Young people understand that the climate crisis will require real leadership, as well as bold and innovative solutions,” Eder said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. At no point does the industry acknowledge the serious and public health and environmental harms of livestock, which are also the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. Young people understand that the climate crisis will require real leadership, as well as bold and innovative solutions,” Eder said.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. If we manage to take advantage of the momentum spurred by this global public health emergency to build back better, we can prepare our cities for a warmer future and create healthy living spaces where people and biodiversity can thrive.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

"We own three per cent of the mitigation problem, but we own 100 per cent of the adaption problem," he said at the event to wrap the near £19m UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) - a four-year scientific research programme led jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Met Office with NERC. What innovation is already happening?

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

ENGIE's demonstrator has validated the integrated operation of the entire chain of innovative technologies under industrial conditions, the company added. This landmark largest ever sovereign Green Bond highlights the diversity of environmental levers which need to be tackled to address the climate and biodiversity crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

As such, SAF is increasingly touted by airlines and policymakers as among the most viable technologies for reducing aircraft emissions in the short to medium-term, which is of course critical given the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are likely to be determined within the next eight years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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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. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Undoubtedly many of these initiatives will help firms better understand how to unleash more innovation and investment - and put us at the forefront of global climate action ahead of COP26. Cash for innovation projects will help make the most of our world leading science and technology advances.

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