Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

The biomethane industry, policy makers and regulators need to work closely together to fully realise these benefits, prioritising organic waste and residue feedstocks, incentivizing sustainable agricultural production and valorising biomethane co-products (digestate and biogenic CO2).”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But balancing a reduction in carbon emissions with the need for profit isn’t always easy. The AD process also produces an organic biofertiliser and soil conditioner, called digestate. Benefit #5: Soil health AD offers significant benefits in terms of soil health. Marc McElhinney is Managing Director of GFD.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, A Healthier Earth will have a central plot to demonstrate biochar’s role in both carbon capture and soil improvement, including its ability to tackle food and water security in desert environments.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

One answer is for executives to offset their airlines’ emissions through carbon mitigation and sequestration projects. Airlines can pay farmers to effectively absorb airlines’ carbon emissions back into their land through regenerative farming practices. So how, then, can they do it? A lack of available alternatives.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. Its approach involves drawing carbon directly from the air and burying it, but others sink it in the ocean.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Net-zero carbon pledges are heating up. It's become increasingly clear that we're unlikely to reach net-zero at any significant scale without some pretty heavy carbon management. It's become increasingly clear that we're unlikely to reach net-zero at any significant scale without some pretty heavy carbon management.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

6 differences between forestry and soil carbon offsets Jesse Klein Wed, 11/04/2020 – 01:00 Carbon offsets are a big, confusing topic. Carbon credit projects vary widely, from urban forestry projects to air carbon capture to regenerative agriculture. ” Soil credits are much newer.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

A new report by the think tank claims the UK can achieve its statutory net zero emissions targets for the land-use sector by supporting farmers and land managers to create healthy natural carbon sinks, such as woodlands, peatlands, and soils.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon removal. A lot has changed since then. Last year, a major U.N.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The initiative, like others emerging in the past several years from Cargill , General Mills, Danone and other big companies in the food system, is aimed at promoting natural carbon sequestration practices — and it is piloting ways farmers can be rewarded for embracing them. division of Tate & Lyle, the 160-year-old U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

Peatlands store huge amounts of carbon in their natural state, but due to human activity they are now a net source of greenhouse gases. Rapid climate change is hampering efforts to restore peatlands, increasing the likelihood of them being pushed beyond the point of recovery and releasing even more carbon into the atmosphere.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 5, 2024

A root-dense sample of wet meadow soil. The soil microbiome is a complex life system dominated by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and numerous other microorganisms. However, climate change may alter the function and composition of soil microbial communities. 1) and has direct consequences for agricultural productivity.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Soil and biodiversity. Envirotec reports.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The UK government has this week launched a major new consultation on how to reduce ammonia emissions from solid urea fertilisers, which have been widely blamed for exacerbating air pollution and soil degradation. Peat bogs are a vital carbon sink and their conservation is critical for tackling climate change.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. In its simplest form, a carbon tax or fee reduces emissions due to the elasticity effect.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Here’s how major environmental components benefit from these innovative practices: Reduction of carbon footprint. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentions agriculture as one of the significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide. Mitigation of soil degradation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding. He argues the move could "provide a very significant income stream to the Treasury whilst incentivising positive behavioural change".

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The University of Cardiff and University of Manchester found that UK soils have the highest level of microplastic contamination amongst European countries, with 500 – 1000 microplastic particles applied per square meter of agricultural land each year. Worse in fact, as the sludge poisons the soil before seeping into waterways.

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Drax has come in for renewed scrutiny over the environmental sustainability of its supply chain, with a major investigation having found evidence of carbon-rich primary forests in western Canada being felled to supply wood pellet feedstock for Britain's biggest power station in North Yorkshire.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Michael Clarke, Scotland Chair, Nature Friendly Farming Network, says: “As Scotland sets forth future food, and farming policies and funding for environmental restoration, we stand on the precipice of transformational change. Six in ten want to support carbon storage (61%), improved water quality (64%) and high-welfare farming (66%).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the right policies and processes, golf course managers can reduce waste and minimize the risk of polluting the environment. Use electric eco-friendly lawn mowers and landscaping equipment in order to reduce/eliminate the harmful carbon emissions released into the environment. Top 5 Sustainable Golf Course Management Initiatives.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the right policies and processes, golf course managers can reduce waste and minimize the risk of polluting the environment. Use electric eco-friendly lawn mowers and landscaping equipment in order to reduce/eliminate the harmful carbon emissions released into the environment. Top 5 Sustainable Golf Course Management Initiatives.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

New farming policy stripped of ambition to aid nature recovery, says conservation group. Our global food systems are reliant on thriving natural systems to provide healthy soils, safe and plentiful water, beneficial pollinators, and a stable climate, and investing in nature-based solutions will be key to securing food security.

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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. Native grasslands are getting turned into forests, even though grasslands themselves are huge, overlooked reservoirs of carbon.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If countries fully implemented their plans to cut carbon emissions as currently promised under the Paris Agreement framework, the planet will still warm 2.9 Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With negotiations continuing through the weekend, Saturday has been designated 'Nature and Land-Use Day' and a raft of announcements are expected on how governments and businesses can ramp up efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, encourage greener farming practices, and bolster climate resilience across the agricultural supply chains.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.”. This strategic pivot was on display at the Glasgow climate summit and at a Congressional hearing in October 2021, where CEOs of four major oil companies talked about a “lower-carbon future.” uses the captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While voluntary carbon markets and policy regulations are rapidly evolving, we need corporations to develop sound, tactical strategies for managing their emissions abatement and removal. Here, I will discuss how to fund active carbon sequestration today as well as R&D for these more durable solutions in the future.

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. Sometimes Cusworth conducts aerial surveys of landfills and is relieved to find nothing.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

into climate solutions and will spearhead the development of 15 transformative technologies crucial for heating and cooling our homes, reimagining critical resource extraction, advancing carbon removal and transforming our food system. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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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? HOW ARE OFFSETS USED?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Forest carbon off-setting projects suffer a credibility issue: they're either accused of giving big business a licence to pollute or there's the question of whether they'll be around long enough to work. We need to enable businesses to assess the amount of natural climate solution they are investing in and its performance.

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