DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The groups said the summit disregarded “the urgent need to address the gross power imbalances that corporations hold over food systems.”. And a recent investigation by Greenpeace’s Unearthed revealed how a coalition of meat industry associations have been pushing for the summit to boost global meat consumption. Corporate Capture.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It gave rise to an era of unprecedented groundwater pumping fueled by free and subsidized electricity. Introduction.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It’s clear from these interviews that without addressing the problems driven by the expectations of the industrial supply chain (retail and catering), encouraging public goods through the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) will be like pedalling a bicycle with the brakes on.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Europe’s Green Deal.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Planet’s monitoring data provide an unprecedented combination of frequency, scope and resolution, allowing observation of large-scale events as they unfold. meters per pixel. Up-to-date information — on everything from vegetation health to fire behavior — is critical in the effort to combat wildfires. During a Fire .

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Sustainability certifications are becoming increasingly important for businesses as global leaders, industry experts and the public are taking climate action. Certifications can be issued by government agencies, non-profits or private companies. Green building certifications. OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Joint IEA, IRENA, and UN assessment of COP26 Breakthrough Agenda sets out priorities for collaborative climate action between businesses and governments. With greater collaborative action, the report estimates some technology costs could drop by as much as 18 per cent by 2030, while accelerating the green energy transition in line with a 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Switch to battery powered machines. Customers Are Demanding Sustainability.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. In today’s current carbon market, verifiable data enables governments to receive global incentives to protect and restore their carbon sinks.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2021

Environmental Specialist (Senior Energy Specialist) | City of San Francisco. Are you interested in improving energy usage in San Francisco? Are you a team leader with the creative and organizational skill to pilot new approaches and policies which will advance energy efficiency and clean transportation? Who We Are.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Human Health . Image source: The Hound. Vulnerable Populations .

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

As Bill Torbett and his colleagues went about their work, handling the sloppy radioactive detritus of oilfields in a cavernous building in eastern Ohio, their skin and clothing often became smothered in sludge. Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. Credit: Marco Kaltofen.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Earth observation data can serve as a powerful tool for increasing peace and security because of the enhanced situational awareness it provides. For more than a decade, Becker-Reshef and other NASA-funded scientists have been developing innovative satellite-based techniques to monitor commodity crops such as wheat and maize in Ukraine.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The basalt aggregate produced at the Orrock Quarry has made its way in roads, bridges, paving, and buildings and been used in tar and cement production for the best part of 50 years. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

Learn how Earth observation data can help governments scale monitoring efforts and accelerate decision-making to minimize wildfire risk. Improved data frequency, resolution, and reliability are key to success, as is prioritizing digital transformation in government workflows.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Electrified technologies are already well understood and many are widely available to consumers, such as electric stovetops and heat pumps, Griffith noted.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’? Silviaterra ).

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Government and Non-profit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Royal Society of Chemistry is calling on the UK Government to overhaul its water standards. The RSC is calling on the UK Government to reduce the cap on PFAS concentration levels that require immediate water treatment with its #CleanUpPFAS campaign, saying the current limits do not go far enough.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. They think that building a levee is going to protect them from rising seawater.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

A circular economy isn’t just about fixing environmental wrongs, though: Evidence shows it can bring big opportunities and positive impacts across industries, sectors and lives. Take the textiles industry. Protect human health and biodiversity Every year, more than 9 million deaths occur due to air, water and soil pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Government and Non-profit.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

By Harrison Dreves, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Low-Impact Development of Solar Installations Could Be Win-Win-Win for Food, Water, and Renewable Energy. Others press double-forked meters into the ground, measuring the soil moisture below the solar panels and in open ground.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Today, there are over 6,000 certified B Corps , in more than 8 countries and over 150 different industries.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

With humble beginnings as a small business selling to Vancouver’s dock workers in 1918, Watson Gloves is now Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of gloves to the industrial and retail market. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved. Ginkgo Sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the headline conclusion of a new report from the Green Finance Institute (GFI) published today, which emphasises how there is a huge opportunity to build a net zero emission, nature-friendly farming system in the UK.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

That’s because government figures indicate that much of the gas that will be shipped to Europe may come from the Marcellus and Utica , black shale formations in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. However, it appears nobody in the United States or European governments behind the recent LNG deal is discussing radioactivity.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We will switch to electric vehicles in huge numbers. We will bear witness as the massive climate-action energy gathering strength in city halls, schools, and boardrooms turns kinetic and steers markets away from extraction and toward life-sustaining systems. WeaveGrid enables widescale electric vehicle adoption on the grid.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilised seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. Sixty-nine million US homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. Electrified technologies are already well understood and many are widely available to consumers, such as electric stovetops and heat pumps, Griffith noted.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The global food system is complex, requiring inputs from a diverse set of industries, such as agriculture, transportation logistics, plus marketing, and retail. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The specific criteria set by the ESG framework endeavor to define environmental, social, and governance systems as sustainable. 2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted. Each business has the power to create solutions and drive sustainable change. Our planet is 4°C (39.2°F)

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