Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Advocates of BECCS argue that by sourcing sustainable biomass feedstocks for power plants and then capturing the resulting emissions, the technology can deliver both reliable renewable power and negative emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. Sharma likened accepting the industry’s proposed climate solutions to “‘putting band aids on an extractive system”. based sustainable farming research organization.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A sort of climate boomerang. It was a critical message that was easy to miss.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because Myno’s process for producing biochar and carbon-negative energy from wood waste and forest-thinning slash piles will help our state reduce the risk of wildfires on our public lands. Within the CRF, some carbon in the feedstock will be converted into 18 MW of renewable baseload power at the Kettle Falls Generating Station.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But these tools aren’t enough to keep pace with changes fueled by climate change, population growth, new compliance requirements, and rising geopolitical tensions — especially in inaccessible or difficult to access areas. This helps enable quantification of carbon stocks and regulation of forest degradation.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

A major report exploring the potential role of different types of 'nature-based solutions' in tackling climate change in the UK has raised the alarm over the need to restore the nation's degraded peatlands. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

Negative emission technologies (NETs) also known as carbon capture or carbon sequestration are a necessary technological innovation. Rising emissions and dwindling carbon budgets make it abundantly clear that we need to find a way to drastically reduce atmospheric carbon.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. By better understanding and preparing for the coming changes, the UK can prosper, protecting its people, its economy, and its natural environment.

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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. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

New report warns UK livestock farming is fuelling climate change, nature loss, and food insecurity. Far too much of the food we eat is produced in ways that are fuelling the climate crisis and driving catastrophic nature loss, yet failing to deliver affordable, healthy food for all.".

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The new ETC analysis, released yesterday , sets out how rapidly increasing demand for bioresources from the manufacturing, construction, and energy industries could outstrip environmentally sustainable supplies unless alternative zero carbon options are rapidly scaled up and the use of biomass is carefully prioritised.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. The 10 Point Plan, the national infrastructure strategy, the climate change committee's sixth carbon budget and the Treasury's interim report on its Net Zero Review. Climate change action has never looked more appealing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. Damaging climate impacts are inevitable, varied and here today. For one, the report lists a number of specific areas of government policy failure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recent data shows that of the 30 raw materials the EU classifies as critical, 19 are predominantly imported from China, a country where Covid restrictions and impacts continue to negatively affect the production and supply of goods. EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. See Table.). A full data set of the evidence behind this table is available on request from DeSmog.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) is the government's flagship post-Brexit farming subsidy initiative, which aims to pay farmers for providing a range of environmental services such as boosting flood protection, tree planting, and improving air, water, and soil quality.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

This biodiversity crisis is unleashing equally well documented risks for human civilisation, including but not limited to diminished soil fertility, pollinator loss, increased flood and wildfire impacts, eroded food security from land and sea, rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource insecurity, and, of course, new and dangerous disease vectors.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

In addition to improving profitability and productivity, the technology enables better grazing techniques that can improve soil health, stimulate grass productivity and root growth, and turn our vast grasslands into more efficient carbon sinks. And if it did, it would actually have a negative impact on the entire globe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is this trajectory that needs to become the dominant version of our future if we are deliver the systemic change needed to solve our climate, biodiversity and public health challenges. But what do we mean by systemic change? Design for transformational change at these points. Decide where to act.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Nature takes root on the balance sheet Richard Mattison Mon, 03/08/2021 – 00:15 ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. The Financial Stability Board recognized that climate change presents a financial risk to the global economy.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Every ton of carbon emitted raises the temperature a tiny bit and reduces air quality, but companies never pay for those costs to society, also known as externalities. Many leading companies internalize the externalities by putting a “shadow price” on carbon inside the business (some collect real money as a self-imposed tax).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published".

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Following a public consultation which concluded earlier this year, the government said it would start to remove peat-based compost from sale in shops within two years in order to support its climate and biodiversity goals, including its target to restore 35,000 hectares of peatlands by 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And, as the film's director Adam McKay explained in a recent podcast with Volts David Roberts , no metaphor is ever going to be exactly right, especially for something as complicated as climate change, but a comet that the world chooses to ignore is not the worst parallel for our current predicament. billion and 3.6 And it gets worse.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The case for action is clear and many businesses, investors and policy makers are asking big questions in search of the best solutions, such as: Should we be growing insects to feed animals instead of importing soy linked to deforestation? So procuring sustainable fats and oils relies on a wider change in how we approach agriculture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The final deal also included landmark references to the need to reform decision-making at the multilateral development banks and other financial institutions to better tackle climate change. The report notes that that 'nature-negative' financial flows are currently three to seven times larger than investments in nature-based solutions.

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