Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the planet, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. Looking at more than 1,000 drought and flood events around the globe from 2002 to 2021, researchers analyzed their size, duration, and severity.

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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. It integrates three key concepts: environmental health, financial viability, and social and economic justice. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

"From the deadliest floods in Pakistan's history to the worst drought across the continent of Europe in five centuries, 2022 has been another devastating year for climate change events," said Maia Kutner, interim global director, cities, states, and regions at CDP.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The combined factors of this continued drought and the unprecedented heat waves sapped the soil moisture of the region, threatening a range of crops , including wheat, berries, and evergreen trees harvested for the Christmas season. Such severe weather events present unpredictable and damaging impacts for the agricultural industry.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

And as extreme weather events become more rampant, it’s increasingly important that farmers have the resources they need to integrate climate smart agriculture practices to ensure our communities have a reliable food supply. Enter, Climate Smart Ag So, what is climate-smart agriculture and how can it help?

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As the AP reported , “grassroots anti-hunger groups and food experts blasted the event as too corporate, tech-focused.”. 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. based environmental organization.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate impacts on agriculture, from catastrophic weather events to temperature and rainfall variability, increase risks for farmers and their financial partners. Agriculture can build resilience and provide climate solutions Despite these challenges, many farmers are at the forefront of developing climate solutions.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Deep Roots KC and its partners will host this second annual event featuring keynote speakers: Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer and MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. Margo Farnsworth, author of Biomimicry and Business: How Companies are Using Nature’s Strategies to Succeed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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EDF + Business

JULY 26, 2023

While cover crops can help improve soil health and make farms more resilient to extreme weather, farmers continue to have questions about the types of financial impacts cover crops will have on their operations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Europe’s Green Deal.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

EA2025 strategy vows to strengthen UK climate resilience and enhance natural habitats in pursuit of net zero goals, as Flood Re warns flood mitigation efforts must continue to evolve. This action plan sets out how we will help to accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon and more resilient future," she said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

He added that the agricultural sector has to urgently embrace more climate resilient farming techniques or risk further food price inflation. The proposed new subsidy scheme, known as the Environmental Land Management (ELMS), has been designed to support farmers in restoring soil health so as to minimise their use of chemical fertilisers.

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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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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Planet’s monitoring data provide an unprecedented combination of frequency, scope and resolution, allowing observation of large-scale events as they unfold. Up-to-date information — on everything from vegetation health to fire behavior — is critical in the effort to combat wildfires. meters per pixel.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

Environment Secretary George Eustice’s address at the COP26 Business Leaders Event hosted the Council for Sustainable Business. We have a new emphasis on sustainable farming, a new emphasis on nature and allowing habitats to recover and on animal health and animal welfare. There's a new Fisheries Bill.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Through practical orchard design and site management measures, we are making our orchard ecosystems as resilient as possible. With the harrowing IPCC report published this month, and news of extreme weather events across the world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless when it comes to climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

First Covid-19, then the war in Ukraine and a summer packed with extreme weather events have left global commodity chains, like much else in the world, in a fragmented state. "Cooperation in a fragmented world " is the title of the gathering of the great and the good at Davos this year. Today we are experiencing a polycrisis.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The number of cold fronts has decreased over the span of the last 20 years but at the same time, anomalous events have occurred more frequently.High-intensity Typhoons tend to occur more frequently as the mean sea level rose at a rate of 3 mm per year.Above is an overall image of climate change in Vietnam. Human Health .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Stark new report argues governments and businesses risk coming to COP26 with 'grievously undercooked' climate resilience plans. We are in a climate and ecological emergency that is already causing serious ill health and death around the world," he said. billion extra litres of water per day if no action is taken before 2050.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

To help your family, here are a dozen ways to reduce food waste that can save you money, help people in your community, enrich your garden soil, preserve fresh harvests and even feed local farm animals. Transform food scraps like potato peelings, melon rinds, corncobs and stale bread slices into soil by composting them. Start small.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I have to say, when I'm asked to come to an NFU event, I never quite imagine a venue like this. That courage and resilience was absolutely incredible to see. They can't plan properly if the soil beneath their feet isn't secure. That's not protectionist, it's the reality of delivering national resilience in our era.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. Soil should be healthy, waterways protected and the health and wellbeing of workers guaranteed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In the wake of the Brexit vote the government saw an opportunity to replace the CAP with a new subsidy regime that would pay landowners in return for the public goods they provided in the form of clean soil, air, and water, wildlife habitats, and climate resilience.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often. How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. Land changes, such as deforestation and desertification, also contribute to extreme weathers events.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To better prepare the village for these events, Mana and his team coordinated a disaster response. With that in mind, he and his team planted trees to slow land erosion, filter the air and balance nutrients in the soil. They trained the villagers how to respond to flooding, earthquakes and fires.

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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.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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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.”. All events signed for our deaf customers.”. Encourage community resilience and disaster preparedness. Ethnic/Subculture.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The findings are sure to prompt renewed calls for more urgent action from global governments, businesses, and civil society to do everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of worsening cimate risks.

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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. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Department of Agriculture can take advantage of tools and money it already has to help farmers transition to more climate-friendly practices that can also lead to improved farm economic resilience in the long term," said Chris Adamo, vice president of federal and industry affairs at Danone North America. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock.

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