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. Undeterred, De Decker responded by publishing an article on the sustainable benefits of harvesting coppice wood. ” 2. .”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen. Sir David Attenborough said: "The survival of the natural world depends on maintaining its complexity, its biodiversity.

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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. of global GHGs. One third of crop land in the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

We recognise the need for beef to be more environmentally sound, more socially responsible, and more economically viable,' says Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between. Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

Securing a sustainable future for the Great Fen depends, in many respects, upon restoration derived from managing water levels. In 2001, five organisations came together to set out a vision for the Great Fen, with the aim of providing a more sustainable future for the area.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Several Aim4C “innovation sprints” are based on regenerative agriculture, including one on “sustainable beef”.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . The Holocene.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 23, 2021

Related: Casa CBC incorporates greenery at every level Choose Your Own Adventure Balmori Associates from New York present this work, inspired by the effects of global warming. The message simplifies our relationship with the soil, water, air, plants and animals.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. Why start a community garden?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Methane (CH4) has a higher global warming potential than CO 2 , such that 1 tonne of CH 4 is equivalent to 21 tonnes of CO 2 over a 100-year time period.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA files also namecheck influential pro-meat individuals such as author and podcaster Diana Rodgers, who has been referenced by the Global Meat Alliance in a previous campaign, which targeted the UN Food System Summit. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries.

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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. Biodiversity. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more sustainability insights from Schroders > But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. It is entirely possible the worst case warming scenarios can be averted.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations? Estimates of the amount of land required for BECCS biomass production depend on land availability and productivity assumptions and characterizations of what is considered sustainable. GtCO 2 for afforestation and reforestation, 0.5–2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

To limit global warming to 1.5C global emissions must start to fall immediately, and 10 per cent of the carbon dioxide generated from the continued use of fossil fuels must be injected back into the Earth's crust by 2030, with 50 per cent injected by 2040 and 100 per cent by 2050. Time for Cumbria to call in some chips.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. There are also a number of slower-moving threats to buildings in the UK, such as the impact drying soils have on building foundations.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Initiatives to reverse deforestation have been underway to contribute more trees, protect woodlands and ensure the ecology , sustainability and longevity of Scotland’s forest resources. Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. The problem is that terrestrial ecosystems can quickly flip from sources of life-sustaining abundance into actively hostile environments when they are exploited unsustainably. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the years, anything “organic” is associated with something healthy. This explains why organic labeled food sells at a higher price compared to others. As more people learn about the benefits of organic herbal farming, it is becoming popular. Not only is organic herbal farming beneficial to humans alone but.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." While sustainable business planning to date has largely focused on reducing carbon emissions, the inevitable impact of climate change on economies, livelihoods, and assets, mean it is paramount that businesses think about how they can adapt to climate shocks.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Sustainability and business 3. It addresses the position of humans in the global (eco)system, and interprets and applies sustainability as a multi- and inter-disciplinary concept. Climate impacts 2.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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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. degree Celsius warming trajectory. degrees Celsius, not enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 10, 2021

With the topic of sustainability in every headline these days, many people are feeling guilt, shame, frustration or irritation at the constant pressure to go vegan or eliminate every scrap of plastic from their lives. Firstly, plants absorb carbon dioxide and store it in the soil , while releasing the oxygen we breathe.

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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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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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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

While Moomaw lauds intensifying efforts to plant billions of young trees, he says that preserving existing mature forests will have an even more profound effect on slowing global warming in the coming decades, since immature trees sequester far less CO2 than older ones. Even older forests continue to accumulate carbon in the soils.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Advocates point out that large bioenergy systems have the potential to not only displace fossil fuel emissions but sequester carbon in soils of feedstock crops, biochar, or when coupled with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS). (To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.)

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