Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Relevant solutions in the water category could include soil additives for water retention, hyper-local weather forecasting, or probes for taking readings from the field, it said.

Biodiversity 67

Biodiversity Soil Africa Resilience 67

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It's not the end of the journey just because the biochar goes in the soil, we should see what its true impact is."

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Soil Carbon-negative Carbon Agriculture 36

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Regenerative farming is an approach that aims to build soil health and fertility, sequester carbon and reduce emissions, enhance watershed quality, and increase biodiversity, while also improving farmer livelihoods and resilience.

Agriculture 93

Agriculture Biodiversity Resilience Sustainability 93

EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Agriculture can build resilience and provide climate solutions Despite these challenges, many farmers are at the forefront of developing climate solutions. For example, recent studies indicate that farmers who adopt soil health practices are less likely to file prevent-plant crop insurance claims after heavy rainfall events.

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Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 52

EDF + Business

MAY 30, 2024

More than ever, your renewable energy and climate commitments have a clear impact on demand and grid build-out. The benefits of climate-smart agriculture offer economic benefits by improving yields, reducing input costs and making agricultural operations more resilient to extreme weather. See EDF’s statement. See EDF’s statement.

Policy 52

Policy Agriculture Investment Soil 52

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Nature-based actions within and beyond corporate supply chains can be taken today to boost resilience to shocks like floods, droughts and other extreme weather, explains Urs Dieterich, from the Landscape Resilience Fund. Climate adaptation, or efforts to build climate change resilience, has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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Resilience Climate change Agriculture Investment 69

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 144

Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The data crunched by the platform will help farmers boost their yields, improve soil health, and enhance the efficiency of their water and energy use, all while providing consumers with direct insights into the supply chain behind the beer.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

They must examine ways to decrease the use of all materials, improve resilience and minimise the negative environmental, health and social impacts associated with the extraction, use and end of life of these resources. Third, policy attention is mainly given to the supply side of the economy, while the demand side is largely ignored.

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Carbon-negative Europe Climate change Resilience 36

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

In recent years, the UK has seen a surge of interest in rewilding, an approach to land conservation that advocates maintain can unlock a raft of ecosystem services, such as improved biodiversity, flood resilience, and soil health.

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Government Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 88

The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Human Health . Image source: The Hound. Vulnerable Populations .

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Climate change Sea level rise Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 150

Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

With this in mind, it is imperative that we encourage communities and stakeholders to form an environmental net gain mindset, as this can be an effective way to successfully achieve this demand. This will also promote a "working with nature" approach whilst mitigating some of the common delays cited above.

Biodiversity 72

Biodiversity Soil Climate change Resilience 72

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Looking at carbon strategy alone risks significant unintended consequences across the food system, for example: Reducing emissions by substituting pasture-reared extensive beef with intensive chicken could automatically increase demand for land use for animal feed production, and potentially confine millions of animals to lives in barren conditions.

Agriculture 82

Agriculture Resilience Biodiversity Carbon 82

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

Biodiversity 97

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 Emissions from the food retail sector tripled between 1990 and 2015 from increased demand for refrigeration to prevent food spoiling. Food generates about 2 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) per person annually.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Retail Biodiversity Medicine 52

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The newly built Pu’er Tea and Coffee Industrial Development Centre (to the right) opposite the Pu’er Tea Quality Control Centre (Image: Karoline Kan/China Dialogue) However, a booming demand for low-cost coffee is putting pressure on coffee-growing areas already suffering serious deforestation from agricultural activities.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Soil Organic Agriculture 40

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 142

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health. Food production is breaching planetary boundaries.

Technology 67

Technology Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 67

Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. These natural assets are also fundamental tools in making places more resilient to the shocks of climate change and in locking away carbon. Far from it.

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Government Soil Agriculture Policy 101

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales],” Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. “But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand.” They also looked more agile and resilient.

Sustainability 36

Sustainability Organic Resilience Agriculture 36

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

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Policy Fossil fuels Carbon Packaging 87

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Despite lower carbon dioxide emissions, the combustion of biomass can release other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds, which may affect local air quality and raise health concerns.

Energy Monitor 89

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 89

Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Consumers are disconnected from the seasons, demanding produce that must be grown abroad, or in hothouses which guzzle energy (not usually from renewable sources). 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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Ethics Agriculture Packaging Organic 62

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2020, the US health/sustainability market was $355 billion and growing 10% per year. With our fully compostable packaging, you’re adding soil nutrients, not paying to clog your landfill.”. Encourage community resilience and disaster preparedness. Demand that those responsible take responsibility.

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Sustainability Climate change Organic Waste 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty.

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 49

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. The price is determined by supply, demand and speculation.

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Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Montreal meeting was delayed two years by Covid-19 and, with the end of this decade looming fast, we must act now with pace, determination, and coordination if we are to have any chance at all of meeting its demanding ambition.

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity COP Carbon-neutral Government 40

Planet Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

Fuels Management: A Need for Better Data for Better Wildfire Risk Modeling Over Broad Areas Fuels management activities — such as prescribed burns, vegetation thinning, invasive species removal, and fuel breaks — build wildfire resilience and are a major focus of wildland fire preparation and mitigation.

Energy Monitor 102

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Soil 102

Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

LUT University and 14 other contributing universities suggested an energy system based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and direct or indirect electrification of almost all energy demand could plausibly meet global energy needs. "A

Europe 36

Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Soil 36

EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

RCPP and REAP have a proven track record of promoting sustainable farming practices and increasing the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency in rural communities RCPP Nebraska Soil Health A $4.4 The device is expected to generate $10,662 per year in savings , reducing electricity demand from the grid by 211,611 kWh.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 453

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. It is looking at the elephant in the room, and going after it piece by piece.

Biodiversity 366

Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring 366

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean.

Energy Monitor 139

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 139

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 businesses and organisations from across the UK's farming, food, and retail sectors have today urged the government to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of its embattled, post-Brexit green farming subsidy programme so as to build a "productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future".

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Demand Agriculture Government Resilience 36

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Now we discover that only three have made the cut and the long term health of our seas has been sacrificed to the short term interests of the fishing industry - even though the industry has the most to gain from the spillover benefits of HPMAs of increased crab, lobster and other commercial species."

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 40