Grist

MAY 10, 2024

But trees are increasingly being prized for one thing: their ability to capture carbon and counteract climate change. Indigenous peoples are getting pushed out of their lands because of carbon offset projects. That’s because forests can enrich the soil, increase rainfall , and help with pollination. The result?

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Planet Pulse

MAY 17, 2021

Can carbon farming provide a sustainable way to make agriculture truly green? The threat of climate change is radically changing the world and farmers are feeling the effects as they seek to increase yields while battling extreme weather events, accelerating crop diseases, and price uncertainty.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Planet has joined the newly formed European Carbon+ Farming Coalition to accelerate progress toward European Green Deal carbon neutrality goals. Earth observation data is a powerful tool for monitoring and assigning value to these natural resources in order to edge closer to carbon neutrality.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Often accompanied with: carbon storage, no till, crop rotation With host country the UAE spearheading a new “Regenerative Landscapes” project in close partnership with the likes of Pepsico, Nestlé and fertilizer giant Yara, the term “ regenerative agriculture ” is likely to be a hot topic at COP28.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Tackling climate change can't wait and neither can we," said Mark Schneider, Nestlé CEO. "It We have a unique opportunity to address climate change, as we operate in nearly every country in the world and have the size, scale and reach to make a difference. It is imperative to the long-term success of our business.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Deal between Carbo Culture and carbon credit specialist will enable companies to invest in biochar in order to offset their emissions. The partnership will allow South Pole's clients to purchase carbon credits that support the production of biochar, a carbon-rich charcoal that can sequester carbon for more than 1,000 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Deal between Carbo Culture and corporate climate solutions provider will enable companies to invest in biochar in order to meet net zero goals. The partnership will allow South Pole's clients to purchase carbon removal credits that support the production of biochar, a carbon-rich charcoal that can sequester carbon for more than 1,000 years.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Asian girl watering green plant in dry land, Crack dried soil in drought and ,Climate change from global warming. With the sharp rise in human population and increased economic activities, the climate has had its fair share of woes. They cover all aspects of climate change in-depth.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Forage-based diets that limit cows' methane-rich burps and better soil management to boost grass growth are all part of a new plan by Ben & Jerry's to cut greenhouse gas emissions to half the industry average by 2024. Brand hopes new project will help meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to half industry average by 2024.

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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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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

APRIL 24, 2020

These various components, particularly Indigo Carbon, which fuels agricultural carbon sequestration, are part of the company's ambitious Terraton Initiative , which aims to sequester one trillion tons of carbon. Indigo Carbon streamlines the ability of farms to tap into the market for carbon offsets.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "A

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Latham & Watkins’ first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. Climate Impacts. The Draft Scoping Plan begins by highlighting many of the growing climate change impacts that Californians are already experiencing.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Mimi Casteel of Oregon's Hope Well Wine uses regenerative practices to combat climate change. By planting varied crops, by not tilling, and by actually encouraging wild plant and animal life, she believes that we can restore the land to its natural balance while sequestering carbon.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

We learned we’re (1) changing the earth’s land so much that we threaten our food security and the land’s ability to capture carbon, (2) heading toward devastated oceans that are coral-free, and (3) not cutting emissions even remotely fast enough to avoid these outcomes. The costs are not theoretical any more.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 4, 2021

Aether takes carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere and turns it into beautiful, precious stones. For example, reckless diamond mining in Angola has led to deforestation , soil erosion and forced relocation of residents. As carbon atoms align into crystalline form, the diamonds grow one fractal at a time.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Carbon Debt. Firewood is the new meat.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. 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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are some hard facts: without secure and sustainable access to the necessary raw materials, our ambition to become the first climate neutral continent is at risk," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the 2022 State of the Union Address. The Commission is preparing new rules on critical raw materials.

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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. Industry is widely promoting one such innovative approach, dubbed “climate-smart agriculture”.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Farming is widely acknowledged to be critical to meeting the UK's net zero emissions by 2050 target given its role as major source of direct emissions and a manager of land that is likely to be required to expand natural carbon sinks. That's not only fair but also in all of our interests.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. kilometers) traveled by the US driver.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

If we can turn the Montreal pledges into reality it would be as significant an achievement for the planet as fulfilling the main goal from the COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris in 2015 to seek to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5C. All play a role in absorbing carbon.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

billion based on exchange rates this week) over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature. "If

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The next step is for our research to be included in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s assessment reports, which are currently based on outdated energy scenario research.". He urged "all countries to revisit and strengthen their NDCs to deliver on the Glasgow Climate Pact by the 23 September deadline".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. It was social media kryptonite.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

How do they contribute to our overall goal of slashing emissions, countering climate change, and ensuring that the environment and communities thrive together? Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share. Hawaii goal.

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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". The Sixth Carbon Budget also brings with it a clear need to act in the short term.

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