Remove Blockchain Remove Global warming Remove Innovation Remove Soil
article thumbnail

The Biggest Sustainability Stories of 2019 (and what to watch for in 2020)

Andrew Winston

A good indication is the accelerating pace corporate commitments to 100% renewable energy (through the group RE100 ), setting science-based targets (more than 740 companies now), and pursuing the most aggressive carbon reductions in order to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

article thumbnail

In focus: How to push climate resilience up the corporate agenda

Business Green

"We own three per cent of the mitigation problem, but we own 100 per cent of the adaption problem," he said at the event to wrap the near £19m UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR) - a four-year scientific research programme led jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Met Office with NERC. What innovation is already happening?

article thumbnail

SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.