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. This Pledge is about doing all we can to help our growers and we can't thank them enough for all their work.".

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Based at the University's Newport campus, the School of Sustainable Food and Farming claims to be the first of its type in the UK, offering both undergraduate and short courses on regenerative farming methods for livestock, soil health, and biodiversity to help equip students with skills in climate-friendly food production.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Again, the research doesn’t account for the cost of inaction.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Our net zero 2040 commitment is one example of our efforts, and we will be transparently reporting our progress along the way.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A prior Harvard study showed that woolly adelgid could take an 8 percent bite out of northeastern forests’ carbon sequestering capabilities between 2000 and 2040. Past 2040, the Harvard study projects that those black birches will capture 12 percent more carbon than the hemlocks they replaced.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Though ENGIE has ambitious renewable development objectives , it plans to expand its LNG terminals in Europe, is one of the top European developers of gas power plants globally, and has agreed to import American shale gas beyond 2040. Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity.

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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. Their commitment played no small part in several watershed developments, including Amazon’s pledge to go carbon neutral by 2040 and Jeff Bezos’s $10B commitment to fight climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 18 works in the exhibition encompassed visual art, sculpture, film, and sound, taking visitors on a journey through forests, soils, seas, cities, and innovations. Ideal City 2040, SPACE10 with Modem, Barbican 2022 - Credit - Tim Whitby and Getty Images. It's beautifully done and really breath-taking," she tells BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

There are not many uncontested benefits arising from Brexit, but there is a wide consensus that leaving the EU presents a once in a generation opportunity to improve the agricultural subsidy regime, providing a massive boost to UK biodiversity and sustainable farming practices in the process.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Morrisons has appointed a team of 'Tree Advisors' to help support its network of 3,000 farmers towards becoming more tree- and biodiversity-friendly, the supermarket announced today. As well as storing carbon, trees and woodlands can limit soil erosion, prevent flooding, control erosion on watercourses and provide habitats for wildlife.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Consequently, the new subsidy regime is expected to encourage practices that increase carbon emission reduction, such as reforestation and improved soil management.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

At the same time, it would create enormous demand for forest and other biomass and come at serious risks for land use, agriculture and biodiversity in the UK and abroad.". The current target stands at 2050, but the CCC has called for 2035 and SSE has previously backed a 2040 date.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2025

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

global emissions must start to fall immediately, and 10 per cent of the carbon dioxide generated from the continued use of fossil fuels must be injected back into the Earth's crust by 2030, with 50 per cent injected by 2040 and 100 per cent by 2050. To limit global warming to 1.5C Time for Cumbria to call in some chips.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The national sciences academy argues data from natural sciences such as soil quality, climate, ecology and social sciences should be central to informing land-use policy in order to ensure "the values of people who visit and work in landscapes are factored into decision-making".

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health. Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to protect biodiversity. Some went further.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

It is important to note that the National Farmers Union (NFU) itself has declared it is fully supportive of the net zero transition, having set a target for the sector to become net zero by 2040. Work is also on-going through various biodiversity offset schemes and green farming innovation funds.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Both biodiversity loss and climate change having been ranked as two of the top five threats facing humanity in the current decade by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which estimates more than half of the world's GDP - or $44tr - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services. Political advocacy.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. More broadly, the company is moving toward a “climate positive” value chain by 2040, embracing science-based targets. said in December.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health. Some went further.

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