Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Recent works completed in South Croydon used the proprietary soil enhancement system developed by Soil Science. But new technologies and new ways of conceptualising the problems are starting to appear, as specialist contractor Soil Science explains. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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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.

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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

We must have effective resilience measures in place to withstand the impacts of such events. Over the next few decades, with the impacts of climate change and the demand for new properties to be built on floodplains, the level of investment and choice of resilience measures seen in the past decade will not be enough. Summary.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin inspired more than 20-million Americans (10 percent of the population at the time) to gather at “teach-ins,” rallies and protests to demand cleaner air and water. Heart & Soil , CinemaKC. Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Competing demand for UK land from livestock farming, housebuilding, energy crops, tree cover, and nature protection is expected to intensify in the coming years as businesses and policymakers grapple with inter-related challenges such as climate change, nature loss, and food security.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

These land use techniques are designed to reduce the soil compaction which increases run-off. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water. Conveyance. Monitoring NFM.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. How effective are they are drawing down CO2 and boosting nature's resilience?

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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 In the end they were pulled back from the precipice by the concerted effort of developing countries standing firm and by climate activists' demands for the blockers to step up.".

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Climate Resilience. We must scale equitable solutions that can bolster resilience and enable a healthy, thriving planet for all. Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems. To date, we’ve invested in more than 130 companies and 100 projects.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. What areas in food, agriculture, and nature-based solutions are ripe for innovation in 2022?

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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.

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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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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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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Swiss-based Energy Vault, which develops grid-scale energy storage solutions, is developing a 2GWh gravity energy storage project alongside deployment of their Energy Resiliency Centers (ERCs) for China’s zero carbon industrial parks.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2022

The 6,400 square metre indoor farm in Newmarket is expected to be fully operational from early next year, following the conversion of an existing disused warehouse site where the firm plans to grow a range of herbs and salad leafs on-demand for retailers and other customers in the region, according to OneFarm.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

As the UK space sector continues its rapid evolution, the UK government strategy focuses on unlocking growth and delivering resilience. That regime was brought in to govern the launch of satellites from UK soil, such as the Virgin Orbit mission from Newquay in January. All of these are of course complex issues.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Current global events highlight more than ever the importance of landmark renewable energy projects like Hornsea 2, helping the UK increase the security and resilience of our energy supply and drive down costs for consumers by reducing our dependence on expensive fossil fuels.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The results of the poll also reveal significant demand for businesses to do more to tackle the problem, with 35 per cent of respondents believing companies are primarily responsible for ensuring goods sold in the UK do not support the destruction of nature overseas, according to WWF.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 1, 2020

Like watching plants sprout from beneath the soil, we have seen Hawaii’s entrepreneurial ecosystem grow. Recently, their online marketplace has been reaching maximum capacity within minutes due to the increase in demand for produce deliveries and quickly needed to find more space to run its operation.

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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.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Investing in nature can provide a short-term boost with thousands of jobs, and it can provide long-term, cost-effective protection against costly risks like flooding, soil degradation, and climate change," Benwell said. How and where our governments choose to invest will shape the kind of world that we build out of this crisis," he said. "If

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Investing in nature can provide a short-term boost with thousands of jobs, and it can provide long-term, cost-effective protection against costly risks like flooding, soil degradation, and climate change," Benwell said. How and where our governments choose to invest will shape the kind of world that we build out of this crisis," he said. "If

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Prices on other carbon markets have also risen over the past year, although by smaller increments, demonstrating the significant resilience global ETS markets have demonstrated in the face of the economic disruption wrought by the pandemic, IETA said.

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