Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

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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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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. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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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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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Harmful Carbon Emissions from Equipment and Vehicles . The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Negative Impact on Ecosystem.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Yes, I love having a tree, but if it ends up having a big negative environmental impact, I was willing to make a change. Forests are more efficient at capturing carbon and will, of course, store carbon for longer than a monoculture that is grown to be chopped down when it reaches maturity. Three of them simply said no.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

Compiled by almost 9,000 botanists over the past 20 years, Plant Atlas 2020 dug up a raft of negative trends in British and Irish flora since the 1950s, most startlingly revealing that non-native plants now outnumber their native counterparts in the wild.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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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. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

It stresses that, with effective safeguards in place livestock can play a critical role in fertilising the soil and making use of areas of grazing land that is unsuitable for growing food crops at scale.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. billion people in 2050 even with current production levels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. The idea of ‘green fertilizers’ to market the company’s products as less polluting, however, is seen by some as corporate greenwashing.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. The ROBT partnership has recommended an approach to management to help avoid the negative impacts of these creatures whilst allowing benefits to be maximised.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

Our economy relies entirely on inputs from the natural world, from the things we grow and dig up to the harder-to-measure benefits, such as providing a free dumping ground in the sky for pollution. Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. Solution: Price the unpriced.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other findings suggest that nearly 570 million people could face risks of increased flooding, bigger storms, and soil and water salinification that could result in them being permanently forced to leave their homes. At best the trends in emissions, renewable energy and tackling pollution have improved only very slightly.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. Planes remain among the most polluting means of transport. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy. Media Authorship.

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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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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. Meat Industry Playbook.

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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. The price of these resources is also increasing. Today we are experiencing a polycrisis.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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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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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. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. Posing an investment risk.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

These figures must grow rapidly if environmental goals are to be met, through investments in sustainable supply chains and redirecting nature-negative investments towards schemes that conserve and protect biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As burger wars wage in Brussels over whether plant-based products can deploy terminology traditionally used for meat and dairy, some of the world's most prolific meat producers have been gobbling up small plant-based start-ups in order to launch their own low carbon meat lines.

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GreenBiz

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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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate.". "Stabilising the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions," said Zhai.

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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. There will be critical skill shortages in key professions, fewer consumers will drive future growth and social interactions and culture will be experienced very differently.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Sixth Carbon Budget report published today encompasses around 1,000 pages which offer the most detailed roadmap ever developed on how to transform a modern economy so that it delivers net zero emissions within the space of just 30 years. The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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