DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Transportation, injection and storage of carbon dioxide bring health and environmental hazards, such as the risk of pipeline ruptures , groundwater contamination and the release of toxins , all of which particularly threaten the disadvantaged communities historically most victimized by pollution. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The authors highlight the stark shift in politics the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on governments around the world. When economies were growing steadily, policymakers were more open to exploratory clean initiatives, whereas now the political focus is on immediate economic gains and job creation. As such, Hanna et al.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading UK firms have signed up to a new Nature Positive Business Pledge, but reversing nature loss remains a daunting challenge After centuries of despoiling the environment and forcing nature into retreat, could the private sector play an integral role in reversing the decline in global biodiversity?

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.". Far from it.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

In the recent high profile report by esteemed economist Professor Partha Dasgupta that was commissioned by the government - The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity - the key finding was clear: we must properly reflect the value of nature in our measures of economic success in order to counter the global decline in biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Focused mostly on England, due to devolved responsibilities across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, it sets out clear roles for local and national governments, private investment, the farming industry, and the circular economy in helping to restore nature, bolster natural resources, and enhance biodiversity.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Innovation marches forward.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

There are not many uncontested benefits arising from Brexit, but there is a wide consensus that leaving the EU presents a once in a generation opportunity to improve the agricultural subsidy regime, providing a massive boost to UK biodiversity and sustainable farming practices in the process.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2010, Blanchard graduated to political battles with BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a spill that sent 4.9 The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Spike Johnson. million barrels of oil into his fishing ground.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone. We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.". It takes a lot of education.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . Wide-ranging, radical change.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The “Follow the Food” documentaries, which featured a total of 28 episodes over three series, showcase “solutions” to climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and food security in the farming sector. Corteva is the fourth largest pesticide company worldwide, with annual revenues of $17.5 billion in 2021. billion in the year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Indeed, it is widely accepted Britons could on the whole do with eating less red meat and more vegetables and nuts for health reasons alone. This is such a timid, cack-handed, unscientific report that I think @theCCCuk must be tailoring its conclusions to current politics. There's a double task here for farmers," says Stark.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. One in five is Black.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2021

It will sustain inter-cropping, livestock, pasture, biodiversity, water services, carbon sequestration, recreation and educational services. It's about the soil. In a net zero world, land will not be used for mono-cropping. And farmers will be stewards of land, not producers of a specific crop.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The joint statement calls on the government to urgently provide more "vision, clarity, and detail" over the rollout of its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, which were envisaged as post-Brexit replacements for the EU's Common Agriculture Policy but have been beset by political wrangling and repeated ministerial changes within government.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. 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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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

But for the green economy, the clearest continuity with the past few years is also the least welcome: the huge chasm of political and policy uncertainty that stretched across almost every aspect of the Brexit process will still be there tomorrow. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework promises to end the decline in nature, but can it really catalyse the transformation in business models that is required? Did the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework deliver on that promise? The answer is yes, and no.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Biodiversity in many of our rivers is a lot better than it was. We should remember though that rivers have never been maintained for human health but for wildlife and nature. That could have severe geo-political consequences. That is the highest number since new tougher standards were introduced in 2015. It makes up only 2.5

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. One in five is Black.

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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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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Bendell’s approach is to look at the field of psychology for clues as to how to communicate about what’s happening and how bad things are going to be, and in fact, psychology has been used as another way to criticise predictions of collapse – because it might cause widespread mental health problems.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Agricultural transformation to systems that work with nature, that support carbon sequestration, renew soils and biodiversity, will be essential to enabling viable, thriving food production. Market volatility and shocks such as extreme weather events or political upheaval will necessitate resilience.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. We can present the data, but what you do with the data is ultimately a political decision,” he says.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health. In this session, you'll be introduced to the key points to consider before doing so.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. Overwhelmingly, Assembly members supported natural solutions above all else as a means to both sequester carbon emissions and boost biodiversity. Nearly two thirds of Assembly members - 62 per cent - also backed enhancing the storage of carbon in the soil.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

UN warns global soil health under threat. The UN has marked tomorrow's World Soil Day with the publication of a new report warning signifcant gaps in knowledge about soil biodiversity could present a threat to food production, human health, and climate change.

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