GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. Microsoft , JetBlue and Royal Dutch Shell are among those seeking to offset a portion of their carbon footprint by investing in forest protection and reforestation.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

DarkBlack Carbon was only officially founded four months ago, but believes it is already primed to be a market leader for biochar in the UK "It's got everything, hasn't it?" says Liz Casely, co-founder of UK start-up DarkBlack Carbon. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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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. Corporations are also working to build momentum around soil carbon markets, where carbon is trapped in the earth and plants’ roots.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. In addition, they disrupt soil microbes, which play a critical role in the ability of soils to sequester carbon. By degrading soil health, agrochemicals limit the capacity of soils to store carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

We should claim back our food heritage and fight climate change with nutritious foods that benefit the soils we're rapidly depleting, argues Bold Beans founder Amelia Christie-Miller. British plant-based 'meat' brand, The Meatless Farm, has raised over £38m investment, while another - THIS - has raised £11m in the last year.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The tech giant has lifted the lid on its efforts to soak up more carbon than it emits. While other organizations are focused primarily on getting to carbon neutral for current emissions, Microsoft plans to offset its entire historical emissions going back to when the company was founded in 1975.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

There are high hopes the rock could play a major role in the industrial-scale carbon removal scientists have warned is required to slow spiralling global temperatures. 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2020

1, venture capitalists invested a whopping $1.5 dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? The twist: No one disputes that these efforts will be good for soil health. But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim? Or back in March at Horizon Organic, a U.S.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Certainly, it appears that significant drops in pollution levels all over the world as carbon emissions plummet from a stumbling global economy is a good thing. The intended consequence of doing so will be a significant reduction in carbon emissions leading to a permanent and lasting halt of our climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains. How might these regenerative approaches restore the health of ecosystems? This is an opportunity to flip how we frame impacts.

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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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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It shows that, by significantly increasing public and private investments in nature-based solutions, it is possible to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation - and at the same time harness many societal and economic benefits. The science is undeniable," said Inger Anderson, executive director of UNEP. "As

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.". While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. The impacts of this would be profound and severe around the world, including here in the UK.".

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. Even major polluters such as Shell are getting in on the act, investing in forestry protection and management projects in Peru, Indonesia, and Scotland.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Plastic pollution is a problem greatly impacting the health of NYC waterways. I very much left feeling like I have the power to ensure my future career aligns with my values for sustainability and justice.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. Microsoft , JetBlue and Royal Dutch Shell are among those seeking to offset a portion of their carbon footprint by investing in forest protection and reforestation.

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling 4. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. New types of manufacturing processes with the promise to infinitely reuse plastics.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

"First, there is strong support for the airline industry to take the lead in investing in greenhouse gas removals to balance remaining emissions from air travel. Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.".

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption. On the one hand, people are at home, preparing many more meals, and starting to experiment more.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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