Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

“There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Alternative investments can also be made in initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as in cattle feed that reduces the methane output of cows. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C ” “Global warming of 1.5°C The planet has warmed at an unprecedented rate, the IPCC report states. ” António Guterres, secretary-general of the U.N.,

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. gigatons of CO₂ annually, the researchers found. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Biodiversity. Anthropogenic.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The IPCC report stresses that global emissions must peak by 2025 at the very latest to keep alive any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 1.5C Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Backing the report's findings, UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen said business had "a critical role to play in environmental stewardship of our planet", such as in addressing biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

But this doesn’t include the fossil carbon emitted in the form of methane through the mining and distribution of fossil fuels, which globally is more than the volume of methane emitted by livestock. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity. REFERENCES.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The pact also features a push for Parties "to consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane", piling on further pressure on oil and gas companies to tackle leaks and flaring, and perhaps even agricultural firms to deal with their methane impact. Nature and biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

To stabilise global temperature rise at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emissions must then reduce by 43 per cent by 2030, according to the scientists, with emissions of methane cut by a third. Overall, the scientists stress that immediate mitigation action will deliver long term gains for the global economy.

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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. It's different with methane. When it's flooded, the bacteria will actively produce methane."

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

We must reduce deforestation to slow global warming,” said Yu Feng. Cattle farming, palm oil, soy, cocoa, rubber and coffee are all leading causes of tropical forest loss , destroying some of the most biodiverse places on Earth, home to species including jaguars, sloths, orang-utans, toucans, and lemurs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Methane emissions soar to record high. The level of methane in the Earth's atmosphere surged to a record high for the second year in a row during 2021, according to analysis published on Thursday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Germany plots major wind and solar drive to shore up energy security. "As

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC. 

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