Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna. But deforestation has slowly eaten away at its edges, and drought and fire have limited rainforests’ ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Up to one billion tonnes of CO2 are estimated to be released each year from degraded coastal ecosystems worldwide - equivalent to the total emissions from all of South America in 2019 - and their protection and restoration is therefore critical to protecting the climate and biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The rapid expansion of the palm oil industry to meet demand for food, cosmetics, cleaning products, and biofuel is a major driver of deforestation and degradation of tropical forests in Asia and Central and South America.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In addition to on-site renewables and recycled cladding, the site features a Drive-Thru lane made from recycled tyres, kerb stones made from recycled plastic bottles, and a biodiversity garden and nature trail. Customers also have access to an array of on-site EV charging points.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. North America: Fraser, Columbia and Northwest United States, Pacific and Arctic Coast, Saskatchewan-Nelson, North America-Colorado. ? billion people.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. North America: Fraser, Columbia and Northwest United States, Pacific and Arctic Coast, Saskatchewan-Nelson, North America-Colorado. ? billion people.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

While an exact tipping point remains difficult to identify, experts believe the Amazon could soon reach a crisis point that would trigger dieback and turn much of the forest into savannah, with major impacts on biodiversity, global carbon storage, and climate change.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

South America is often depicted as a lush landscape full of diverse ecosystems. There are six collections in the botanical garden: humid forest, dry forest, useful plants, special collections, biodiversity and superpáramos. And once, Colombia was like that.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2021

Related: Aztec-inspired eco home sits lightly on the land in Mexico Chiapas 168 is made up of four residential apartments positioned adjacent to an ancient jacaranda tree, a subtropical plant native to south-central South America and brought to Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

This company is a big deal in South America with 132.5 The second, the Corridors for Life Project run by Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas, aims to recreate wildlife corridors important for regenerating biodiversity within coastal forests that have been encroached upon by farmland and ranches. million active users and 649.2

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. .” Assisted natural regeneration happens when humans speed up natural processes by planting seedlings and protecting them as they grow. million trees. +

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Many of the things that might limit the viability of that as a mitigation technology are not necessarily included in the model, including competition with food, competition with ecosystems, the need to meet biodiversity goals, issues with land rights with respect to indigenous land titles,” Matthews told Grist.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

As we look to overcome challenges like food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss, foods like fava beans could also help us establish a circular food system, as they can also be used in different crop rotations and be fed to animals. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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Soil South America Sustainability Retail 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

Similar creatures live in other rivers of South America and Asia, but they all face threats from humans. Extending the moratorium could be a way to protect the dolphins, alternative baits could be a way, but we need to have a balance between development and biodiversity conservation,” Oliveira said.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction. When species become endangered , the ecosystem and its biodiversity equilibrium are imbalanced, triggering chain reactions where one loss leads to another.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While the palm oil commitment requires zero deforestation in all sourcing regions, soy and cattle mainly focus on South America's Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco regions. Grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and other carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems are also being plowed up too.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, DeSmog revealed with the Financial Times how UK power plant Drax was at the heart of lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. In 2023, I will be watching what happens with oil and gas fields in Alaska, the Arctic, Africa, and South America.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

This company is a big deal in South America with 132.5 The second, the Corridors for Life Project run by Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas, aims to recreate wildlife corridors important for regenerating biodiversity within coastal forests that have been encroached upon by farmland and ranches. million active users and 649.2

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2023

To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around the credibility of many of these pledges and whether these goals will be met. Together, countries with net-zero targets — which.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Some of its goals are to restore forests after natural disasters, create jobs and enhance biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. “Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What provides habitat for half the world’s known plants and animals, is a vital component of biodiversity and an important economic crop? Central and South America lead in number of tree species, followed by tropical parts of Southeast Asia and Africa. Nor is climate change helping.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Forest farming, for instance, involves growing a variety of crops under a forest canopy — a process that can improve biodiversity and soil quality, and also support the root systems and carbon sequestration potential of farms. There are similar benefits to other types of agroforestry practices. A changing debate.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, he is set to directly call on the 40 heads of major economies who are slated to attend the virtual meeting to come to the Kunming Biodiversity Summit in October and the Glasgow Climate Summit in November "armed with ambitious targets and the plans required to reach them".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As well as being the primary driver of the calamitous collapse in global biodiversity, deforestation is responsible for around 11 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Bold and urgent action from these producers is the critical first step in tackling deforestation throughout the supply chain.".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services. Political advocacy.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

Forest farming, for instance, involves growing a variety of crops under a forest canopy — a process that can improve biodiversity and soil quality, and also support the root systems and carbon sequestration potential of farms. There are similar benefits to other types of agroforestry practices.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, climate and environmental threats loom large over WEF's long-term risk outlook, with climate action failure, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural resource crises, and human environmental damage making up the entire list of the top five risks facing the global economy over the next decade.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo.

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