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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

In order to ensure this growth is done in a sustainable manner, climatetech innovation in the agtech space must be scaled and integrated into the world’s largest organizations—like Bayer—that are leading this growth. The incubator is currently home to more than a dozen agtech-focused startups. Learn more about them here. ###.

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Inflation Reduction Act Activation Guide: Climate-Smart Agriculture

EDF + Business

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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Establishing urban orchards to benefit people, communities and nature

Low Impact

However, we are passionate about orchards representing a powerful way that people can get involved at a community level. Through practical orchard design and site management measures, we are making our orchard ecosystems as resilient as possible. This is because they make ideal homes for thousands of species of flora and fauna.

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Reality check: How's the transition to regenerative agriculture going'

Business Green

Their sustainability teams love telling me about ambitious goals of transforming hundreds of thousands of acres to regenerative stewardship and storing significant amounts of carbon in the soil. They include: Which type of cover crop makes sense for your soil type, weather and crop rotation? When is the best time to plant it?

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

Through Green Alliance's Tech Task Force programme, we've already investigated the transformative potential of smart green tech in the energy efficiency, transport and construction sectors. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

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.