EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2022

Quantifying the long-term financial benefits of conservation practices that build farm resilience and recognizing that value in the financing offered to farmers would be transformative for farms, lenders and the environment. Nitrogen losses to the environment are invisible and have historically been difficult to measure and monitor.

Agriculture 108

Agriculture Soil Resilience Innovation 108

GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

He found that protected areas around temples, shrines and cemeteries in Japan contained a huge variety of native vegetation that co-existed to produce resilient and diverse ecosystems. The method is based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Urban forests bring many benefits to communities beyond their impact on biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Climate change Carbon Soil 420

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It more clearly shows how human activities like farming, mining, forestry and industry can contaminate water, cause soil erosion, and pollute the atmosphere. Professor Larissa Naylor, of the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, led the design of the new diagram and is the paper’s corresponding author.

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Soil Sustainability Climate change Government 147

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 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4%

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Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. This makes securing equitable access to affordable, climate resilient and healthy food a personal issue for our generation.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Climate change Health Soil 52

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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. It takes a lot of education.".

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 48

EDF + Business

MAY 30, 2024

Removing the climate guardrails and repurposing those conservation funds would make farmers and ranchers more vulnerable to extreme weather events and undermine efforts to maintain productive soils, clean water and healthy ecosystems. See EDF’s statement.

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Policy Agriculture Investment Soil 52

Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Despite clean energy’s economic and job opportunities, and scientific warnings that net zero emissions are needed by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change , Trump’s federal government has worked to implement policies that increase pollution. It is also designed, at its core, to generate economic and health benefits.

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Policy Health Agriculture Climate change 105

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

The Draft Scoping Plan anticipates that these activities will restore health and resilience to overstocked forests, prevent carbon losses from severe wildfire, reduce health costs related to wildfire emissions, and improve water quantity and quality. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Carbon-neutral Global warming Health Agriculture 52

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

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human destruction of natural habitats on land and at sea, climate change, pollution, invasive species and over fishing and hunting are responsible for the loss of nature "at a rate never seen before", according to the latest edition of the long-running report, which provides one of the world's most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity.

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Resilience Biodiversity North America Climate change 99

Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But a resilient intruder that does not succumb to the same old tricks has shaken up the remediation community and led Sales to look outside of his field for a solution. It’s a chemical that’s been found in water, soil, and food all over the planet: PFAS.

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Carbon-neutral Health Technology Soil 123

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That's why forward-looking companies are investing in their value chains and working with suppliers to build resilience and prepare for the worst. This must focus on those vulnerable communities - and the women within them - that have polluted the least and now suffer the most.

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Government Climate change Resilience Investment 36

Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The cooling effect of community orchards, as well as their potential to capture carbon and reduce air pollution, make them a great contribution to climate change solutions – particularly in urban areas! Through practical orchard design and site management measures, we are making our orchard ecosystems as resilient as possible.

Biodiversity 72

Biodiversity Climate change Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 72

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. EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs.

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Carbon-negative Europe Climate change Resilience 36

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

In a bid to cushion farmers from surging energy and commodity costs, the UK government today announced it is to delay planned restrictions on the use of some fertilisers linked to air pollution, while also setting out plans to encourage organic and sustainable agricultural production in the longer term.

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Soil Agriculture Government Sustainability 36

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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Resilience Climate change Government Sea level rise 50

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”.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

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. There’s no future in cultivating low-quality coffee, to pollute the environment and get stuck in the vicious circle,” said Ms.

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Sustainability Soil Organic Agriculture 40

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Reducing asthma in a polluted urban neighborhood through clean energy.”. 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.

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Sustainability Climate change Organic Waste 78

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. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 95

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Less heralded but no less important was the commitment to reduce all pollution to levels not harmful to wildlife and ecosystems, taking in significant cuts to nutrients, pesticides, and plastic waste.

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Biodiversity COP Carbon-neutral Government 41

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is a long overdue and highly welcome ambition - although perhaps not entirely surprising given the government now has 13 legally binding environmental targets and a suite of interim goals to meet over the coming decade and beyond, covering areas such as air pollution, water quality, biodiversity, woodland cover, and waste reduction.

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Government Biodiversity Policy Agriculture 41

Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. However, there is a growing body of thought on how best to measure and minimise environmental impacts, before then developing strategies that can actually enhance the health of life on land.

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Health Biodiversity Logging Fossil fuels 69

Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

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. Shopping at farmers’ markets can help strengthen resilient and transparent local food supply systems. Yet, at present, this is not the case.

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Ethics Agriculture Packaging Organic 62

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. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 143

GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more.

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Organic Agriculture Soil Biodiversity 356

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 50

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. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. But by how much?

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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Agriculture Pollution Stormwater Ozone 147

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

He found that protected areas around temples, shrines and cemeteries in Japan contained a huge variety of native vegetation that co-existed to produce resilient and diverse ecosystems. The Miyawaki method The method is based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki.

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Biodiversity Climate change Carbon Soil 28

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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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 83

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 466

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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Sustainability Politics Government Global warming 52

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."

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Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 41