AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the agrifoodtech ecosystem, upstream technologies — those operating on the farm or in the production of food — are where the greatest climate opportunities are, and investment in these categories will be critical to improving Africa’s climate resilience. These were BIV’s first African startups.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With negotiations continuing through the weekend, Saturday has been designated 'Nature and Land-Use Day' and a raft of announcements are expected on how governments and businesses can ramp up efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, encourage greener farming practices, and bolster climate resilience across the agricultural supply chains.

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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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Soil Fossil fuels COP Climate change 46

EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Agriculture can build resilience and provide climate solutions Despite these challenges, many farmers are at the forefront of developing climate solutions. For example, recent studies indicate that farmers who adopt soil health practices are less likely to file prevent-plant crop insurance claims after heavy rainfall events.

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Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 52

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 76

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 73

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

"The opening of this fund complements the significant work already underway through Countryside Stewardship and the Sustainable Farming Incentive to support regenerative agriculture and promote soil health and financial resilience for farms," he added.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Carbon 36

Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 71% of food system emissions come from the use of land for agriculture. ? of food system emissions. ?

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

Added to its crowdfunding push, Heal intends to seek support from companies and charitable foundations and intends to explore its eligibility for the Nature for Climate Fund, the £640m package unveiled in the government's recent Budget to support tree planting, afforestation, and peatland restoration programmes in England.

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Government Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 88

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s 'compatible with the planet'. The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. Turning algae into straws that are 'designed to disappear'.

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Technology Building Energy Monitoring Packaging Carbon-negative 542

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

As part of a £166m industrial decarbonisation funding package announced this morning , the government earmarked over £30m for a series of five projects designed to deliver 'negative emissions' by enhancing the UK's natural carbon sinks. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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Government Carbon-negative Carbon Methane 79

Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. Experiments like these carry risks, Mohanta pointed out.

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Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 66

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey has confirmed the government's post-Brexit agricultural subsidy regime is to roll out as originally planned next year, as she sought to alleviate widespread concerns among farmers about the government's ability to deliver the sweeping reform package.

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Agriculture Government Soil Policy 36

Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, created to deliver comprehensive climate policy recommendations for Congress to act upon, has released their recommendations in a report titled Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient and Just America.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

More than 40 percent of food that is grown, processed, packaged and shipped ends up uneaten, and in many cases dumped in the landfill, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Transform food scraps like potato peelings, melon rinds, corncobs and stale bread slices into soil by composting them. Additionally, U.S.

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Waste Waste Organic Soil 85

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The government has unveiled a package of measures designed to support farmers amid surging energy and artificial fertiliser costs. Investing in healthier soils and reducing reliance on chemicals is a triple win," he explained. "It The costs of war keep adding up.

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Soil Agriculture Government Sustainability 36

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. Food is often packaged in unnecessary plastic or other non-sustainable packaging – posing a waste problem of massive proportions.

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Ethics Agriculture Packaging Organic 62

Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

As well as destroying critical habitats, the loss of forests is exacerbating the climate crisis as trees and soils are natural carbon sinks thought to hold huge amounts of CO2. This is just one piece of a much larger package of measures that we are putting in place to tackle illegal deforestation," they added in a statement.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

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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. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

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. Companies that rely on water for food production, packaging, and other manufacturing processes are also at risk as well as the companies they supply. Plant trees.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

It may not happen fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but all around the world the disruption caused by increasingly cost competitive clean technologies and the growing clamour for green economic recovery packages demonstrate how net zero emission economies could emerge over the next three to four decades.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Soil Policy 81

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

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. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

Low Impact

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Save money (by buying fresh wholefoods rather than more expensive processed and packaged goods, or paying a premium for food grown abroad or with large amounts of energy). Learn new skills to help you boost your resilience and live more sustainably in future. Avoid harmful toxins associated with industrial food preservation.

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Cooling Ethics Sustainability Fossil fuels 78

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

With our fully compostable packaging, you’re adding soil nutrients, not paying to clog your landfill.”. Encourage community resilience and disaster preparedness. “Forget HVAC headaches—the earth-friendly ventilation system has no moving parts to break down.”. “50-year You’ll never worry about waste disposal again.

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Sustainability Climate change Organic Waste 78

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

That makes certifications ideal for consumer marketing and packaging. You can find your specific application process on the organization’s website which includes products in 500 categories that meet 27 standards, including cleaning products, adhesives, and packaging. Types of Green Certifications.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Food Processors Beverage Companies Grocery Stores Wholesale Clubs Agricultural Producers Restaurants Packaged Food Companies Meat Producers On average, two-thirds of food sector companies’ emissions are generated by farm-level production, making on-farm sustainability critical for abatement. Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95 All rights reserved.

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Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Charged

APRIL 13, 2023

As a pre-packaged service entrance switchgear it supports the rapid deployment of high-speed charging (Level 2 and Level 3) on your premises without changing the existing electrical infrastructure. Microgrids can improve customer reliability and resilience to grid disturbances.” Your operation is never left in the dark with E-Bloc.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Electricity 98

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

What started as a farm-led movement to reduce the amount of chemical inputs used on crops became a moneymaker for farmers, supermarkets and consumer packaged goods companies, while also supposedly being better for the planet, but even that is disputed. Nothing will destroy the soil microbiome faster than those."

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

It also urges the government to more clearly set out the priority environmental outcomes it wants to deliver, harnessing "explicit and simple messaging around key outcomes required from those across the food value chain", in order to help farmers to better identify opportunities to boost resilience, efficiency, and nature-protection efforts.

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Government Sustainability Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring 36

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s ‘compatible with the planet’ Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials.

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Technology Packaging Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 28

Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Even the Prime Minister's most loyal allies would be hard pushed to argue he has delivered on last summer's promise of a Roosevelt-style stimulus package capable of remaking the British economy along net zero lines. It has been an undeniably good week for the government's occasionally-sighted green recovery agenda.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! I was particularly interested in the discussions around plastic packaging and waste throughout the event. Furthermore, I learned that I am not alone in my mission to create a greener, more equitable world.

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Sustainability Plastics Innovation Education 419

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted. Lego switched up their strategy to create their core products and packaging from sustainable materials, such as leaves and sugarcane. For instance, the beauty brand Ethique has designed shampoo bars to remove the need for plastic packaging.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Carbon-negative Climate change 158

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

However, the forward-leaning GCP language, combined with many individual geographic mandates (such as the EU 'Fit for 55' package), will almost certainly further accelerate the transition to a clean energy system. A commitment backed by $130tr in assets for the net zero transition by GFANZ, the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.

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