Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Findings from BeZero Carbon reveal that nearly nine in 10 people would welcome greater business and government support for nascent carbon removal sector. Government and businesses must act boldly and at a pace to build trust and legitimacy in the voluntary carbon market if it is to succeed as a solution to tackling climate change.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

Biodiversity is a top priority for the Government-owned company, which changed its name from Highways England last year, and would-be suppliers are encouraged to demonstrate their ability to deliver environmental gains. Dead grass that’s simply left to rot can also build up the bank of soil over the years.

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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 Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. Sean McDermott / Grist.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The group added that the targets could be met through the development of a "climate smart" supply chain, including the adoption of science-based land management practices to maintain healthier soils, enable additional carbon sequestration, promote efficient water use, and increase biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

‘Prioritising Stakeholders’ Ahead of the UN meeting, members of the People’s Autonomous Response to the UN Food Systems Summit – a group of indigenous and smallholder food producers that advise the UN on hunger and food security – held a press conference on the growing influence of industrial agribusiness in global food system governance.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint. Create a composting area since wasted food may enrich the soil with nutrients and lower your carbon footprint. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint. When you can, share or contribute to food banks.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Mitigation efforts could include stopping deforestation , decarbonizing operations , and slashing methane emissions. For instance, companies can support farmers to transition to more climate-smart agriculture practices that are known to improve soil health, making soils more spongy and able to hold and retain water in floods or droughts.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The UK waste sector can be an enabler of wider economic decarbonisation while delivering the government's 'levelling up' agenda, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray. The end of 2020 saw a flurry of publications from the government and relevant agencies on the green agenda. COP26 is the platform to drive this government's agenda.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2022

Imperatives to halt climate breakdown and the decline of nature have led to a growing number of government targets requiring more action in the coming years. The new markets need to be well governed to be trusted. A fair and robust system that maximises the possibilities depends on carefully designed governance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It means that with just weeks to go until the G20 Summit in Italy and then COP26 in Glasgow, the latter of which in particular promises to be among the most important global summits ever held on British soil, the need for a 'decade of action' is more acute than ever, and there is less than a decade to deliver it. pathway by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to the report, those involved in the beef sector in Devon's 'Ruby Country' are taking steps to promote biodiversity and soil health, but their efforts are being hampered by a lack of clarity about future incentives, such as which net zero and sustainable farming approaches will be provided with government subsidies and to what extent.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

A focus on increasing carbon storage in soil and soil health in general - by adopting nature friendly farming practices such as reduced cultivation and cover cropping - will also improve his farm business' bottom line and resilience in the next 5-10 years. It is time that they were rewarded for doing so.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. . Industry and the Anthropocene.

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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. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Government-commissioned report argues UK's food system must be transformed to protect the climate, nature, and the NHS. With the right leadership from government, it is well within our power to change the system so it makes both us and the planet healthier.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

In the wake of government orders and notifications of managing wet wastes by commercial complexes and residential societies at local level in decentralized manner some of the commercially eccentric product manufacturers are spreading claims of creating compost in as low as 15 minutes time. Which will now rotten in the open soil.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Higher temperatures also fuel droughts causing snow pack melt, more moisture to evaporate from lakes, reservoirs, and soil, and drier shrubs and trees. Lobby governments on behalf of climate change. How about lobbying for government investments in green technologies and improving infrastructure?

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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. C or well below 2C - provided governments with the "foundation to act".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Pivot Bio's microbial nitrogen technology uses a biological approach to "reawaken and rediscover" microbes in soil, so that farmers don't have to apply as much synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. The microbes in the soil can already do this; we just have to figure out how to wake them up," Pivot Bio CEO Karsten Temme told GreenBiz.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The capacity for trees, soils, and oceans to naturally soak up human-caused CO2 would be reduced under higher emissions scenarios, the report warns, further limiting the planet's ability to help regulate the climate. All major governments worldwide have backed the IPCC's findings.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

Nearly a quarter of that is beef, with environmental impacts ranging from methane emissions (aka cow burps) to land-use changes to water stresses. There’s data that shows when you manage animals in that way, it has a much more dramatic impact on the soils. It’s a labor and capital resource constraint thing.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. The South Australian government has recently announced A$1.5m

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Others need consumers to change behavior, or governments and businesses to reform policies,” write the report’s main authors Tim Searchinger , Craig Hanson , Richard Waite and Janet Ranganathan in an accompanying blog post. (Restore peatlands; 80 million hectares of reforestation.). Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Additional emissions result from tilling soils and applying fertilizers for agricultural production. Sequestration approaches such as agroforestry and low- or no-till agriculture also have significant co-benefits such as soil and water conservation. Several combinations of mitigation strategies even increased animal production.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

As such, it posits that investment and collaboration on a scale never seen before between policymakers, farmers, industry, and other stakeholders will be required, recommending "a target-driven structure" like that pioneered by the US government in the 1960s through its Apollo missions to reach moon.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. 50 companies , representing over 40% global oil production, committed to reduce methane emissions to 0.2% See our issue on interconnection issues here ].

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), produce more methane than cows that graze on grass. This was no esoteric inquiry. A changing debate.

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