AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups.

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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

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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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They also stabilize soil, provide food and shelter for animals, and purify water. A tree’s life cycle is an important process that helps to sustain the environment. Trees produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the air, which helps to regulate the climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 8, 2023

They’re everywhere — in our walls, our coastlines, our roads and our soils. Solutions are all around us Vesta Co-Founder & President Kelly Erhart shared that we need to increase the scale of CO2 removal by a factor of about 10 million to limit global warming. What do these things all have in common?

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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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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Yet efforts to adapt to the changing climate and improve resilience are not keeping pace with the growing threats, according to the CCC. The government is not taking climate resilience seriously enough. Indeed, 60 per cent of the risks and opportunities assessed in the report have been given the highest urgency score.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Also , soil and agriculture. That’s because there’s a good reason for this. Put simply and in China for example, the Pinduoduo company deals with supply chain management for eco or sustainable crops. The post Agricultural Practices That Are Both Practical and Eco-Sustainable appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between. Have you ever thought about how your food gets to your plate? Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Poverty status, social security, and access to resources; these are the three main factors that are extremely affected by global climate change. The effect of global warming has already started to impact Vietnam.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. It is entirely possible the worst case warming scenarios can be averted.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. Higher temperatures also fuel droughts causing snow pack melt, more moisture to evaporate from lakes, reservoirs, and soil, and drier shrubs and trees.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

More frequent and more intense storms create land runoff that can overwhelm water treatment facilities, contaminating drinking water with hazardous waste or soils with intestinal parasites. Furthermore, elevated CO 2 concentrations can result in greater uptake and concentration of soil toxins (such as arsenic or cadmium) in rice.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. It can either be used to reduce carbon emissions or promote ways in which to adapt, mitigate and build resilience to the effects of climate change. Climate finance.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Soil quality and quantity are maintained. Landscapes are also preserved, made more versatile and resilient. The more trees planted, the better they are at making a positive impact.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Flood risk product used for investment decisions, vulnerability assessments, and infrastructure resiliency planning. But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Overstory (Seed | $1.8M Applications.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 10, 2022

For most of us, our homes are our biggest investment, and, like any investment, we want to protect them from any potential harm. Unfortunately, nature can sometimes be one of the biggest threats to our property. From severe weather to wildfires, there are several ways that the forces of nature can damage or destroy our […].

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 9, 2022

Agriculture modernization has made incredible strides in creating a more efficient ad sustainable agricultural landscape across the globe. Farmworkers are not subjected to such rigorous working conditions, therefore lessening chronic musculoskeletal pain, all thanks to agricultural modernization.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 21, 2022

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is a national award that celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from across the U.S. and Canada. Established in 2001 by author T. Barron, the Barron Prize annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant […].

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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. The scale and scope of what is needed to reduce these climate risks has increased worldwide, and action to boost adaptation and resilience is also increasing. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Gardening, whether in hanging buckets or in the backyard, promotes sustainability and helps save on some costs that would have been incurred on things, such as groceries. It also plays a vital role in the integrity of the environment. In addition, gardening instills the spirit of naturing or caring for something in you. Keep reading […].

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2020

A while ago I wrote shout the plea of the Native American. We live in a world so conflicted and disingenuous. So let’s try to stay connected here. I reported the following: RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR NATIVE AMERICANS FORT CHIPEWYAN, AB, Aug. 8, 2019/CNW/ – The Government of Canada is.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For nearly 20 years, the International Young Eco-Hero Awards have annually honored global youth ages 8 to 16 […].

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We believe ourselves lucky as the inhabitants of the solar system’s only planet capable of sustaining life. But we are continuing to only take from our environment. Ever thought about giving back to the planet? If you feel your government or political leaders will take necessary strides to sustain the.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the years, anything “organic” is associated with something healthy. This explains why organic labeled food sells at a higher price compared to others. As more people learn about the benefits of organic herbal farming, it is becoming popular. Not only is organic herbal farming beneficial to humans alone but.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 27, 2021

Millennial and Generation Z students learned about the importance of car pollution in school. Many educational facility pickup lines encourage parents to turn off their vehicles while waiting for their kids. These efforts solidify the information students learn in the classroom. Fortunately, transportation technology is constantly evolving.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 15, 2021

There is broad consensus within the scientific community that the climate is changing and that humans are the primary cause of this. Despite this, it seems like society never makes any necessary improvements to avert this problem. It can feel hopeless as if the issue is constantly mired by politics.

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