Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the initiative, launched late last week, the CEOs of McCain Foods, McDonald's, Waitrose & Partners, Olam, and PepsiCo have produced a joint action plan detailing how to boost adoption of regenerative farming practices globally, in a bid to reduce the food system's significant impacts on climate and biodiversity.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, built on the belief that it takes more than funding for companies to succeed, we surround them with holistic support across equity and access, fundraising, policy , corporate partnerships , community engagement , and a network of other CEOs and innovators. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Zero Carbon.

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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 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. How effective are they are drawing down CO2 and boosting nature's resilience?

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today a 600-page Review on the Economics of Biodiversity aims to similarly influence opinion on how best to turn the tide on the ongoing destruction of the natural world, which it warns threatens the wellbeing and livelihoods of humanity unless transformative action is urgently taken to address market and governmental failures.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We also need public policy that supports farmers in the transition to climate-smart agriculture. The good news?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The cultivation of biomass can lead to alterations in land use, occasionally resulting in the depletion of valuable ecosystems, including forests and grasslands, which in turn jeopardizes biodiversity. For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But with Ministers yet to go on the record with their detailed policy plans and several departments said to be at loggerheads over key parts of the new programme, environmental groups remain fearful that the UK's green policy framework is about to fundamentally weakened. Far from it.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

It's illustrated again the importance of our relationship with nature and the importance of treating nature with respect, and that the loss of biodiversity and climate change are two sides of the same coin. It is climate change that is sadly driving the loss of much of our nature and much of our biodiversity.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. Meanwhile, the Treasury's long-awaited review of the costs of delivering the UK's 2050 net zero goal is not expected incorporate cost considerations for adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is the first of three pilot schemes being considered by the government as a post-Brexit replacement for the system employed under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which had divided out payments to farmers largely based on levels of land ownership.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Nature-based actions within and beyond corporate supply chains can be taken today to boost resilience to shocks like floods, droughts and other extreme weather, explains Urs Dieterich, from the Landscape Resilience Fund. Climate adaptation, or efforts to build climate change resilience, has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A wave of bankruptcies could sweep across the UK's farming industry unless the government helps farmers shift their production methods to enable a biodiverse and low-carbon future, according to a report published today by the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN).

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough. For one, the report lists a number of specific areas of government policy failure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Claims of 'newt counting' slowing down development are a misnomer - biodiversity net gain approaches can improve design, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer. The long-awaited Environment Bill which is due be part of UK legislation by Christmas, is expected to incorporate mandatory biodiversity net gain with the support of nature recovery networks.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

The report argues that a range of high and low-tech solutions are already available that could support cities in growing a significant proportion of their own fruits and vegetables, with more tech innovations in the pipeline, but few places are utilising them as part of their resilience planning.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Shifts that account for growers' livelihoods, the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and more. For example: How can a business support growers to transition to better soil health and regenerative practices that sequester carbon, while gaining carbon accounting benefits from insetting?

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

It will give governments, policy makers, and companies emissions data to be able to identify areas of the food system that produce the most emissions and develop ways to reduce them. 32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 gigatons of CO2e emissions globally in 2015).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A clutch of sobering reports published this week that set out the threat posed to the global economy by nature and biodiversity loss have further bolstered the case for nation states and businesses to funnel investment into nature-based solutions that can slow escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The government said the Act would provide a boost to the farming industry after years of "inefficient and overly bureaucratic policy dictated to farmers by the EU". Our landmark Agriculture Act will transform the way we support farmers," said Environment Secretary George Eustice.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. Leaving the European Union has opened the door to new opportunity for reviewing historic EU rules and processes to ensure our regulations work for us," it states. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to the report, the UK has an opportunity to demonstrate global leadership in the development of a sustainable agriculture and land-use policy, based on a robust, shared, and accessible evidence base. But he stressed that "productivity is about much more than food, timber and products that can be sold on markets". "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

With the rug having been swept from underneath the global economy by the coronavirus crisis, huge numbers of companies, investors, and auditors have been forced to confront the resiliency of their business and supply chains, particularly in relation to non-financial threats. Many will not have liked what they discovered.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

A number of degraded peatlands in the Pennines and Wales will be re-wetted and replanted, while a project will be launched to explore how rock chips can be added to soil to boost their carbon capacity and biochar is to be buried at a sewage disposal site, on former mine sites and railway embankments to assess its carbon capture potential.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Kenya for example, where half of UK tea imports come from - amounting to over 62,000 tonnes each year - and which is the biggest exporter of black tea worldwide, boasts several regions with ideal climates for growing tea due to tropical soils and long, sunny days. degrees," she added.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Last year we welcomed the news that the UK Government would ban the sale of bagged peat compost in England by the end of 2024," said Allis Watt, peat policy officer at The Wildlife Trusts. Peatlands are resilient to drought and store vast quantities of carbon, serving as a powerful nature-based solution to climate change," they said. "A

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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