GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Just this year we've seen venture capital flow into companies protecting forests, sequestering carbon in the soil, capturing CO2 directly in the air, and converting captured CO2 into a range of products from cement to jet fuel. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to step up its climate adaptation and resilience efforts.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They also looked more agile and resilient. And how do we transform this moment of crisis into a more resilient, sustainable, healthy and just food system? If we’re going to actually build an agile and resilient system going forward, then we have to invest in it.". Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alice Groom, RSPB Senior Policy Officer said: “This research has landed as Governments from the four UK countries develop new agricultural policies to replace the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. Nature underpins our ability to produce food and can provide food-sustaining ecosystem services like clean water and better soils.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It's not the end of the journey just because the biochar goes in the soil, we should see what its true impact is."

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

A group of moderate Conservative MPs has served up a raft of policy recommendations designed to help deliver on the Prime Minister's pledge to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 recession, including proposals to bring forward the petrol and diesel car sale ban to 2030, plant tens of thousands of trees, and create a domestic carbon tax.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Soil itself can hold immense amounts of carbon and is capable of absorbing — through sequestration — more carbon than either oceans or forests. It’s estimated that over the last few centuries, at least 50 percent of the Earth’s soil carbon has been released into the atmosphere. A lack of available alternatives.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Avoiding False Solutions.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Then, built on the belief that it takes more than funding for companies to succeed, we surround them with holistic support across equity and access, fundraising, policy , corporate partnerships , community engagement , and a network of other CEOs and innovators. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. Corporations are also working to build momentum around soil carbon markets, where carbon is trapped in the earth and plants’ roots. based environmental organization.

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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.

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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 6, 2022

The plan argues that common metrics and market-based financial incentives for environmental outcomes, targeted government policy, and an overhaul of food sourcing could make regenerative agriculture a "no brainer" business decision for farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

As the UK space sector continues its rapid evolution, the UK government strategy focuses on unlocking growth and delivering resilience. That regime was brought in to govern the launch of satellites from UK soil, such as the Virgin Orbit mission from Newquay in January. All of these are of course complex issues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. How effective are they are drawing down CO2 and boosting nature's resilience?

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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. economy, while bringing U.S. emissions to net zero by 2050.

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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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EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2023 Agricultural Symposium, “The Changing Geography of Agricultural Production,” explored the factors driving changes in where and how agricultural commodities are produced, disruptions that are leading to further geographical differences, and the role of investments and farm policy in the years ahead.

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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. For one, the report lists a number of specific areas of government policy failure.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They are coastal farmers in Senegal whose soil is being salinated by rising sea levels; they are maize and rice farmers in Nigeria facing extended dry spells and unpredictable rainfall; and they are fishers and pastoral farmers watching Lake Chad disappear before their eyes.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is the first of three pilot schemes being considered by the government as a post-Brexit replacement for the system employed under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which had divided out payments to farmers largely based on levels of land ownership.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Nature-based actions within and beyond corporate supply chains can be taken today to boost resilience to shocks like floods, droughts and other extreme weather, explains Urs Dieterich, from the Landscape Resilience Fund. Climate adaptation, or efforts to build climate change resilience, has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Recent scientific reviews and meta-studies find that organic farms deliver more wildlife, healthier soils, climate mitigation, clean water, lower pesticide use, lower antibiotic use, more jobs and better food security. This naturally prevents weeds from germinating during wetter seasons and improves soil health as well as carbon retention.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

He added that the agricultural sector has to urgently embrace more climate resilient farming techniques or risk further food price inflation. The proposed new subsidy scheme, known as the Environmental Land Management (ELMS), has been designed to support farmers in restoring soil health so as to minimise their use of chemical fertilisers.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The study warns the sector is facing escalating environmental and financial pressures, while at the same time the adoption of practices that "work with nature" and enable lower inputs promises to boost profitability and resilience for many farms. The UK now ranks amongst the most nature impoverished nations on Earth," he said.

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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination. Meanwhile, the production of biochar —a byproduct of pyrolysis—presents a beneficial opportunity to sequester carbon and enhance soil fertility, provided its application is executed judiciously.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

Together the two schemes are expected to help restore up to up to 300,000 hectares of wildlife habitat by 2042, while supporting the government's goals to halt the decline in species by 2030 and bring up to 60 per cent of England's agricultural soil under sustainable management by 2030. They don't get the maths, and don't really care.".

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

In front of a capacity crowd atop Seattle’s Columbia Tower, Franz capped off the Future of Carbon Policy Forum by presenting the Joby Shimomura -designed etched glass award to Myno CEO and co-founder Thor Kallestad. Downstream of the CRF, the biochar will be used by growers in Eastern Washington to accelerate drawdown and increase yields.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. Meanwhile, the Treasury's long-awaited review of the costs of delivering the UK's 2050 net zero goal is not expected incorporate cost considerations for adaptation and resilience.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

EA2025 strategy vows to strengthen UK climate resilience and enhance natural habitats in pursuit of net zero goals, as Flood Re warns flood mitigation efforts must continue to evolve. This action plan sets out how we will help to accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon and more resilient future," she said.

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