AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Fashion Biodiversity Soil Health 28

Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The global business group today published its new Nature Benchmark , just days ahead of the report being presented at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal which kicks off on Wednesday. The urgent first step for companies is to carry out a deep assessment on nature.

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Biodiversity Biotech Fashion Pollution 69

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. For example, could your carbon cardboard waste be shredded to become their packaging material or could waste heat from your processes be used for their hot water or offices?

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Carbon-neutral Policy Carbon Carbon-negative 111

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

More than 20 projects across England aimed at restoring nature, reducing flood risk, cutting carbon, and boosting biodiversity win support through Landscape Recovery Scheme fund. This is such good news A major boost for biodiversity, carbon storage, drought mitigation, reduced flooding, improved water quality… & jobs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Other key areas of focus in the ESG strategy include sustainable farming, driving down packaging waste, and further slashing its water use, the latter of which is backed by a goal to replenish 100 per cent of the water used at Carlsberg breweries in high water risk areas by 2030.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Agriculture 73

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The initiative includes plans to leverage over $4bn billion of new public sector investment in agricultural innovation, including the development of climate resilient crops and regenerative solutions to improve soil health, and support for making these techniques and resources affordable and accessible to hundreds of millions of farmers.

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Government Carbon Agriculture Biodiversity 91

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 73

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Using multi-purpose cleaners to cut down on cleaning costs and product packaging. Use native plants as a vegetative buffer – Incorporating native plants into your yard is a great defense against runoff that requires minimal care and simultaneously supports biodiversity. Reusing mop water to water plants. Reusing old toothbrushes.

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Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability HVAC Soil 148

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 71

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Wetland International calls for protection of crucial ecosystems ahead of the delayed COP15 Biodiversity Summit. On average 200 new species are discovered in freshwater wetlands each year and these precious habitats store almost a third of global soil carbon.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Packaging Soil 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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 Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To

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Soil Fossil fuels COP Climate change 43

Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Carbon 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our infrastructure can be established in almost any country in the world, regardless of climate and soil quality, giving economically disadvantaged and water-scarce regions the opportunity to transform their food supply chains and revolutionise their economies by ultimately evolving from net food importers to becoming entirely self-sufficient."

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Agriculture Europe Soil Biodiversity 75

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

Building Energy Monitoring 74

Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil 74

Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. of food system emissions. ?

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Retail Biodiversity Medicine 52

Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package. Hepburn et al.

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Policy Packaging Fossil fuels Politics 59

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.

Agriculture 89

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 89

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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Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 72

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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Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 36

The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution.

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Global warming Waste Waste Ozone 195

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

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

Bic has partnered with TerraCycle, however, to offer a Stationary Recycling Program that accepts all brands of empty writing instruments, glue sticks, and flexible packaging. a sofa that upcycles 200 plastic water bottles) and renewable sugar-based packaging. Here are some eco-friendly landscaping products for your business.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Biodegradable Energy Monitor 148

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

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Added to its crowdfunding push, Heal intends to seek support from companies and charitable foundations and intends to explore its eligibility for the Nature for Climate Fund, the £640m package unveiled in the government's recent Budget to support tree planting, afforestation, and peatland restoration programmes in England.

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Government Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 88

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

As part of a £166m industrial decarbonisation funding package announced this morning , the government earmarked over £30m for a series of five projects designed to deliver 'negative emissions' by enhancing the UK's natural carbon sinks. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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Government Carbon-negative Carbon Methane 75

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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

Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

The overwhelming majority of MEPs demanded that all forthcoming investments must comply with the Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Europe's net zero and biodiversity goals. It also pledged to double the number of charging and alternative refuelling stations by 2025.

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Hydrogen Transportation Europe Investment 94

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The consultation comes ahead of the anticipated passage of the Environment Bill this autumn, which lays out a raft of measures to protect the environment, including the adoption of legally binding targets for enhancing biodiversity and expanding tree cover in the UK.

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Government Biodiversity Carbon Soil 69

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

by the end of the century, the proposed legislation also aims to address the biodiversity crisis, by placing a stronger legal requirement for the government to protect and restore forests, soils, and ecosystems so as to deliver a natural means of absorbing CO2. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Climate change Aviation Carbon-negative Government 101

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 88

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. 1] Vijay Jarhdhari , ”Barahnaja: Traditional Biodiverse Crop System in Uttarakhand”, Pg.114. The aftermath has revealed it fangs in ways never seen before.

Energy Monitor 195

Energy Monitor Health Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 195

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

Soil 148

Soil Biodiversity Recycling Recycling 148

GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity decline, water scarcity — all these issues are interconnected, and we must address them all simultaneously," he said. "In If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems," he said. "In

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Carbon-neutral Plastics Biodiversity Blockchain 439

Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Past topics range from agrobiodiversity and packaging to aquatic foods. Detailed information on five verifiable benefits of responsible farming - water, soil, equity, biodiversity and air - aims to enable consumers, retailers and food service operators to make value-based purchases. But that's much further into the future.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Organic Retail Packaging 73

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Close Authorship. Media Source.

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Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 538

The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Composting is another excellent way to divert organic waste from landfills and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden. Choose products with minimal packaging or packaging made from recycled materials. Installing bird feeders and baths can invite a variety of bird species, contributing to the biodiversity of your surroundings.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Sustainability Energy Monitor 195