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Blenheim Estate project aims to boost reforestation effectiveness

Envirotec Magazine

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim.

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Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience

Greentown Labs

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Additionally, deeply rooted social impacts exist within the current food system; 18.8 million people in the U.S., million people in the U.S.,

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

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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Big Ag Influence Over UN Food Systems Summit Criticised by Green Farming Advocates

DeSmogBlog

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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The story in the soil: Meet the start-up trying to pioneer a UK market for biochar CO2 removals

Business Green

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.

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TED Talk: What Farmers Need to Be Modern, Climate-Friendly and Profitable

Sustainability Consulting

To make farms more resilient to the effects of a warmer climate, Ford argues that farmers need a way to make better decisions about sustainable business practices. Truterra collects information acre by acre about the soil, water situation, the type of tractor to use and how many passes to make, among other things.

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'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

Business Green

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.