Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the plan, Nescafé said it would work with its coffee farmers to improve soil health and fertility, protect water resources, and support biodiversity in order to increase yields and help improve farmers' livelihoods, while also helping to sequester carbon through healthier soils.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

We started our 100 per cent green strategy in 2010 when we made a commitment to energy independence and generating all of our gas and electric from renewables," he said. Since then, we have invested in our knowledge base across this business and on farm driving environmental improvement year on year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Four additional targets for soil health, pesticide use, smallholder livelihoods, and women's empowerment are also set to be announced by the end of 2022, Better Cotton confirmed.

Climate change 88

Climate change Soil Retail Agriculture 88

Grist

MAY 28, 2020

They were inspired to study microplastics after sailing across the Pacific in 2010 and growing disturbed by the presence of plastic debris floating by, even when they were 1,000 miles from the nearest shore. The Allens are partners in research and in life.

Plastics 145

Plastics Microplastics Health Soil 145

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. Devon Wildlife Trust’s Mark Elliott has led the charity’s beaver work since its beginnings in 2010.

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Grist

MAY 10, 2024

The new report, the first comprehensive assessment of how the world is governing its forests in 14 years, offers some good news — global deforestation rates have slowed down slightly, from 32 million acres a year in 2010 to 25 million in 2020. That’s because forests can enrich the soil, increase rainfall , and help with pollination.

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Carbon-neutral Home Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor 136

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Since 2010, air pollution emissions have fallen significantly, with nitrogen oxides dropping 63 per cent, sulphur oxides falling 81 per cent and PM10 particle pollution cut by just over a third, the report shows. Data from the EA last year also showed all English rivers failed to meet quality tests for pollution.

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Pollution Biodiversity Government Soil 99

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration. Soil management: Projects attempt to preserve or increase the amount of carbon sequestration in the soil.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

New developments can inadvertently add to surface and sewer flood risk by covering permeable surfaces like grassland and soil that would otherwise assist in dealing with heavy rainfall. 

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Government Sustainability Pollution Construction 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Another way to save food from entering landfills is by starting a composting program to turn food waste into useful, nutrient-rich soil. cities had increased more than 55% since 2010. Feeding America is a well known nonprofit working to end hunger across the U.S. Monitor and Evaluate Waste Management Programs Regularly.

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Waste Waste Plastics Sustainability 148

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change.

Biodiversity 98

Biodiversity Soil Carbon Asia 98

Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2010, Blanchard graduated to political battles with BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a spill that sent 4.9 The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. He said he always shot back. Spike Johnson.

Seafood 142

Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 142

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. Many meat companies report plans to ensure that soy within their supply chain is verified as responsibly sourced by programs such as the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS).

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the United States, for instance, livestock methane emissions have increased by around five percent since 2010, according to the IATP report, and by around 20 percent since 1990, even as overall methane emissions have declined. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 145

Grist

JULY 19, 2020

In 2010 and 2012, for example, Russian wheat growers saw their yields decline dramatically because of a combination of hot weather and drought. “It For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. The problem is being seen throughout the world. And a team of U.S.

Agriculture 87

Agriculture Climate change Soil North America 87

Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With advice from The Wildlife Trusts, earlier this year they reached an impressive 28 per cent of land helping nature to recover - the size of nearly 6,000 football pitches - benefitting soils, rivers, natural habitats and vital pollinating insects.

Climate change 66

Climate change Biodiversity Soil Law 66

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. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other findings suggest that nearly 570 million people could face risks of increased flooding, bigger storms, and soil and water salinification that could result in them being permanently forced to leave their homes. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1

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Health Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 63

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. 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon 108

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This relationship began when Keysight Technologies , a Greentown Terawatt partner that spun out of Agilent in 2010, recommended Agilent get involved with Greentown. Elliot Rossow, Kula Bio’s senior research associate for soil microbiology, says the startup would’ve had to acquire its own Cary 60 if there wasn’t one available in the wet lab.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That changed in 2010, when the IPCC began a more concerted appraisal of how societies and economies could be helped to adapt to a world with a less stable climate. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed in 2010, when the IPCC began a more concerted appraisal of how societies and economies could be helped to adapt to a world with a less stable climate. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Waste 130

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

So-called nature-based solutions to climate change - harnessing trees, soils, and seagrass to such up carbon - are very much in vogue at the moment, and are increasingly being looked at by companies seeking to offset their own emissions while boosting biodiversity.

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Resilience Climate change Government Health 101

Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. The IPCC recently conducted a study into the combined effects of all the agreed targets of the countries taking part in the ongoing COP talks.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

By the end of this year it plans to be using 133,000 hectares to grow coffee, more than triple the 2010 area. 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.

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Sustainability Soil Organic Climate change 40

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

When you think about where solar was in 2010, people were getting loan guarantees or being forced to sell their projects to Warren Buffett at highway robbery costs. Is this a trend you’re seeing in the industry as well, and can you help contextualize this? Jigar Shah: Yes, and it's a natural phenomenon.

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Real Estate Soil Education Climate change 130

Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

According to a NASA study the rate at which carbon is released from the permafrost into the atmosphere is accelerating.The study concluded that Arctic carbon spends less time locked in frozen soil that it did four decades ago. This was 930,000 square kilometers (359,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 May average.

Fossil fuels 59

Fossil fuels Methane Carbon Climate change 59

Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Walnut twig beetles from the Southwest started an outbreak of “thousand canker disease” in 2010, causing the long, slow death of black walnut trees all over the U.S. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont.

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Asia Climate change Medicine 83

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

The standards focus on the following themes: Forests – Promotes best practices for protecting standing forests, preventing the expansion of cropland into forests; fostering the health of trees, soils, and waterways; and protecting native forests. They are the pioneer and established market leader for GMO avoidance since 2010.

Organic 140

Organic Sustainability Health Waste 140

ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

2010 ) consists of 165 MT sites that cover the edifice of the Aluto volcano (15 × 15 km 2 ), with an average site spacing of 0.7 The local data set collected by ETH Zurich and the Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE) ( Samrock et al.,

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Moreover, after their primary use, they can, in turn, serve as animal fodder or garden fertilizer to make soil more arable. First formulated in 2010 by Tenith Adithyaa, a precocious 11-year-old who was working in his homemade laboratory, the now-patented Banana Leaf Technology has since received seven international awards.

Biodegradable 28

Biodegradable Plastics Technology Patents 28

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. forests between 2006 and 2010, five times more impactful than fires, land-use change, insects, drought, and wind damage combined. A group of researchers from NASA, the U.S.

Logging 98

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2022

per cent globally in the 70 years between 1930 and 2010 due to ocean warming. MCS argues such practices are deeply damaging to fragile seabed habitats, while also potentially disturbing carbon-storing soils on the bottom of the ocean. But here we are, 12 years on, with little to show for it.".

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Climate change Africa Biodiversity Demand 28