EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It also builds on the company's existing 'Farms of the Future' initiative, which aims to promote regenerative farming practices that can enhance biodiversity and soil health. McCain growers saw an average 18 per cent reduction in yield in 2018 and 16 per cent of our 2019 storage crop was still left in field.

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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. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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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. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Waste 130

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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The outcomes of the trial will be used to influence the roll out of low carbon techniques across Heineken's barley suppliers as it works to meet a goal of reducing its agricultural emissions by 33 per cent by 2030 against a 2018 baseline and achieve a carbon neutral value chain by 2040.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Soil Agriculture 44

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.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 141

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. The Pee Dee River flows near town, and in 2018, when Hurricane Florence hit, the river leapt its banks, and Johnny B. was evacuated along with some 2,000 residents.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations? 5 GtCO 2 for direct air capture, and a maximum of about 5 GtCO 2 for soil carbon sequestration. All of these NET approaches have their own set of impacts, costs and limitations such as the permanence of the carbon stored (Fuss 2018).

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Technology Carbon-negative Climate change Fossil fuels 59

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.

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Waste Waste Biodiversity Pollution 41

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. Those invasives, the study says, will cause major impacts to biodiversity around the world. Then if you think, wait, what if we lost all hemlocks?

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 145

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

A 2018 Boston University study found that only one in 10 people recognised native advertising – which includes branded content – as advertising rather than reporting. Biodiversity is in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators are plummeting in Europe. percent in absolute terms since 2018.

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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. We welcome this report and will consider its recommendations closely as we continue to demonstrate global leadership on climate change ahead of COP26 in November.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Around £200m of UK forestry properties and land were traded throughout the year, with average values of commercial forestry now more than double where they were just three years ago, rising from £9,300 per hectare in 2018 to £19,300 last year, as more and more investors scramble to get a slice of the action.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

For example, unregulated tree planting rolled out en masse in a bid to meet the government's manifesto pledges and reduce carbon emissions could inadvertently exacerbate global warming, the report suggests, highlighting how trees planted on peatland risk drying out carbon-rich soil and releasing more greenhouse gas than they capture.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. But if Ministers want to stand any chance of delivering on their promise to restore the UK's hugely damaged environment they need to act fast.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

A farmer sows his wheat field following France’s brutal heat wave in 2018. The IR8 variety of rice, for example, which was integral to the Green Revolution in the 1960s, is being phased out in places in favor of native cultivars that are easier on the soil and more disease-resistant. Jean-Francois Monier / AFP via Getty Images.

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Agriculture Climate change Soil North America 82

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation by Laurence L Delina, 2018 Climate change remains a challenge that needs to be addressed at its core, particularly the rapid reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The second, which builds on the government's 25 Year Environment Plan published in 2018, is to create a framework through which successive governments will need to introduce and deliver on long-term and legally binding environmental improvement targets, set at least 15 years into the future, to overturn the decline of the natural environment.

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Business Energy Monitoring Investment Climate change Government 50

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen. We're not a software startup.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. .

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Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It owns and operates its own fleet — its corporate customers hire its services for analysis or seeding applications — and uses artificial intelligence and high-resolution data capture to map land and come up with a restoration plan that takes into account a region’s unique biodiversity needs.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 28

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Carbon 344

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2018, the horticulture staff quit applying chemicals to the golf course and cut the Bermuda turf very short.

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Soil Stormwater Education Medicine 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And And so, with proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury, he ploughed £3.3m

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Ethics Biodiversity Carbon Agriculture 36

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. Soil and biodiversity. He continued: “We need this government to commit to legally enforceable targets for fine particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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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.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Organic 52

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. And that stat was from 2018, long before this year’s pandemic and global recession created millions more hungry bellies. Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to protect biodiversity.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

One of its leading proponents is Steven Pinker, whose 2018 book Enlightenment Now was once described by Bill Gates as "my new favourite book or all time". Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship, and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran muses.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Meanwhile, it shows the number of serious pollution incidents fell 12 per cent to 467 between 2018 and 2019, while the EA said it stopped illegal waste activity at 940 sites, fining businesses and individuals a total of £4.4m for environmental offences.

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Pollution Biodiversity Government Soil 99

Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

It is a characteristically bullish statement from Batters, who has overseen a major gear shift in climate ambition since she was elected the NFU's first woman president in the trade body's 100-year-plus history in 2018. If you remove livestock from the system, you then become reliant on chemical fertilisers," she contends.

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Soil Agriculture Climate change Government 101