Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We evaluate if this sustainable agricultural practice can serve as a climate-smart agricultural practice in terms of food production, soil health, and environmental sustainability. What is biochar?

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EDF + Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Moreover, by breaking out prominent agricultural GHGs—methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide—for six primary commodities as examples, our guide helps sustainability teams deliver a new approach to drive emissions reductions efficiently and in highest service to their climate strategy. Our Recommendations Cattle: Methane.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. As far back as 2008 we thought it eco-crazy to dig up knotweed infested soils from one site only to dump it in a landfill site, many miles away.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. The researchers argue that these essential species disperse seeds, facilitating the growth of carbon-sequestering trees and plants.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers will develop new ways to monitor carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland after winning almost half a million pounds to develop new sensors that can be used in remote areas. Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Carbon neutral fertiliser production and use to be discussed at Agri-TechE event on 24 March. They have each developed an alternative approach to generating fertiliser, using renewable energy sources, operating from a shipping container, offering the potential for carbon-neutral production.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the fight against climate change by locking carbon away for thousands of years.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Flue gas cleaning removes contaminants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide, VOCs, heavy metals, and particulate matter from flue gas. To break it down, flue gas pollutants can acidify the soil and water, making them unusable for farming and fishing.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2020

Almost exactly a year ago, we reported that June and July wildfires in the Arctic had released as much carbon as Belgium does in an entire year — an unprecedented summertime burn that would amplify the region’s climate change–fueled fever. Following months of warm weather , fires began flaring up in northern Siberia around the start of May.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Biodigesters are an effective way to reduce the carbon footprint of a business, easily manage food waste, and save money. Of course, one of the great benefits of biodigesters is they are eco-friendly and will reduce a facility’s carbon footprint significantly. One way for a business to be more sustainable is by utilizing a biodigester.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Navigating the complex world of carbon credits can be challenging for companies because not all are equal. . A new report highlights differences in the approaches used to produce agricultural soil carbon credits and how this can cause uncertainty for companies looking to purchase or generate them.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Findings from BeZero Carbon reveal that nearly nine in 10 people would welcome greater business and government support for nascent carbon removal sector. The findings also reveal there is a general lack of awareness around carbon offsetting, with just 45 per cent of respondents knowing what the term means.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Every year, we generate over 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (sewage, food waste, garden waste, food and drink-processing waste, farm and agricultural wastes), which release harmful methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they decompose.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. The researchers argue that these essential species disperse seeds, facilitating the growth of carbon-sequestering trees and plants.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The group added that the targets could be met through the development of a "climate smart" supply chain, including the adoption of science-based land management practices to maintain healthier soils, enable additional carbon sequestration, promote efficient water use, and increase biodiversity.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With more than 80 times the warming of CO2 in the near term, one of the most potent greenhouse gases is methane–and it’s clear that we’re in the midst of a methane moment. Companies should also support farmers by investing in innovative solutions, particularly to tackle enteric methane.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Trial in Buckinghamshire confirmed new technology that converts dairy herd waste into fertiliser can slash ammonia and methane emissions. N2 Applied has developed a technology, called N2 Unit, that it claims can reduce both ammonia and methane emissions and enrich livestock manure. million tonnes a year by 2035.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The hope is that by preventing the screenings from going to landfills and adding biochar to boost biological wastewater cleaning, treatment plants will require less energy to operate, which in turn will help reduce their carbon footprints. Carbogenics is a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2021

As worldwide anxiety about the climate crisis soars, conscious consumers are embracing the idea of carbon tech, or ways to turn excess CO2 into marketable products. Which is probably why the new Potted Carbon planters attained full Kickstarter funding in less than 36 hours. Each planter comes with DEN sustainable soil.

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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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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. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Econaur

MARCH 19, 2020

It eliminates the formation of ethane and methane types of greenhouse gasses from garbage dumps. It eliminates contamination of groundwater and soil due to highly acidic Leachate formed from garbage dumps. The compost also adds benefits of nitrogen-fixing microbes in the soil while maintaining the pH balance of the soil.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

The type of initiatives that a company implements often depends on their financial resources and the extent to which they are willing to reduce carbon emissions and promote social sustainability. Without thoughtful management, organic waste can emit methane gas as they decompose. The use of these irrigation methods could avoid about 1.13

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

And their expectation is that this summer isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime fluke; rather, it’s indicative of rapid changes that could alter the fabric of Arctic ecosystems, unleashing even more billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Not to pick on Belgium again, but that’s the same amount of carbon the country emitted in all of 2018.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A study conducted by the University of Kentucky found that the dominant contributor to the carbon footprint and variable costs of field-grown trees is equipment use, or, more specifically, the combustion of fossil fuels which occurs at harvest time. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of 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.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 7, 2022

US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ingredients. Getting feed from the point of production to consumption is complex and carbon intensive. Those miles rack up carbon emissions, Prapas says.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Greenhouse Gases and their Carbon Dioxide Equivalents. It’s important that businesses understand which gases matter and how to measure these gases using the common approach of carbon dioxide equivalents. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

HiiROC’s new technology produces zero carbon “turquoise” hydrogen. Zero-carbon technology company HiiROC this week announced it has attracted around £26m in fresh investment, in the latest vote of confidence in the fast-expanding hydrogen sector.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To warming target.

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