E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate.

Climate change 98

Climate change Carbon-neutral Agriculture Retail 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Meanwhile, progress has stalled in several other key areas, the report states. "Our Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".

Government 54

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement. Other research has highlighted the risks of offsets potentially leading to negative outcomes for biodiversity, for example by introducing invasive species or negatively affecting key ecosystem processes. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring 98

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

Resilience 98

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. He testified in Congress and appeared on national news shows to lobby for his industry. Spike Johnson.

Seafood 142

Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 142

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate.

Climate change 52

Climate change Carbon-neutral Agriculture Retail 52

Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil.

Waste 41

Waste Waste Biodiversity Pollution 41

Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

I tend to focus on biodiversity loss – but again it’s always bad news. And they’re the pollinators and soil manufacturers. You can go and find little growing areas, or parks that have been neglected, or bit of disused railway track that has a lot of biodiversity on it. There’s a World Economic Forum risk report from 2016.

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Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Waste 82

Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Improved soil and water quality (with better farming practices increasing soil conservation, soil sequestration, and productivity of certain crops, while reducing fertilizer application, water runoff, and eutrophication). Source: Alfredsson and Karlsson 2016.

Policy 59

Policy Packaging Fossil fuels Politics 59

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. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

Sustainability 108

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon 108

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity. Biodiversity is in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators are plummeting in Europe. However, Engie chose to sell these assets rather than close them down.

Pollution 145

Pollution Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 145

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

Agriculture 135

Agriculture Climate change Building Energy Monitoring Organic 135

Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Ignoring the risks that biodiversity loss can create for operations and supply chains is risky business, writes Oxford Economics' Sarah Nelson Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to pause. This year four of the top five risks were related to the environment. Climate-related issues dominated the results for years.

Ocean acidification 36

Ocean acidification Biodiversity Real Estate Climate change 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, causing severe biodiversity loss and leading to changes in ecosystem services.

Resilience 78

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

The New Hampshire-based company was founded in 2016 and has gone through a few acquisitions (FluroSat and Dagan) over that time to become a staple partner for big consumer food players such as General Mills and Kellogg Co. Finally, Regrow will ground-truth these claims with field soil carbon samples to calibrate the models. "It

Agriculture 36

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. This was no esoteric inquiry.

Agriculture 545

Agriculture Investment Soil Carbon 545

Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

Soil 52

Soil Carbon Agriculture Organic 52

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Ambitious targets covering everything from waste and water quality to soil and air pollution are set to have huge influence, potentially providing a raft of environmental issues with a long term goal and focus akin to that provided for the net zero transition by the Climate Change Act and the CCC.

Government 41

Government Policy Agriculture Law 41

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. ” Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. A clue may be found in Poppe’s approach to a crisis.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. This was no esoteric inquiry.

Agriculture 28

Agriculture Climate change Investment Soil 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward. The result?

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

With conditions rapidly changing as the planet warms, wildlife managers nationwide are facing similar biodiversity crises. Back in 2015, for example, the Board of Game passed a rule allowing brown bear baiting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, leading the Fish and Wildlife Service to ban it in 2016.

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