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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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

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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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is a concern not only for the oceans and the creatures that live there, but increasingly for human health as we consume plastic in the foods we eat. The Salk Institute is getting $30 million for its Harnessing Plants Initiative, which is focused on soil sequestration. In the meantime, it is stepping up its renewable energy plans.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

JBS has recently announced a target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2040 that includes indirect emissions. The sector is being challenged on its environmental and health impacts, as well as food security, which “suggests eating meat compromises food security for others”, she explains.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By 2040, for instance, half of the global cotton crop could be hit by droughts - with massive implications for consumer prices as well as farmer incomes. To signal our ambition, we've set ourselves a challenging target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of Better Cotton produced by 50 per cent by 2030 (from a 2017 baseline).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year.

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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. billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions before 2040.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Drax is committed to ensuring best practice in health and safety, operational efficiency and sustainability across the Group and intends to invest accordingly to deliver this outcome.". 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

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

It could include catchment sensitive farming schemes, integrated pest management; it could include soil health schemes and measures to promote that.". Tier one, which we are now calling the Sustainable Farming Incentive, will be about supporting farmers to take a holistic approach to sustainable farming," he explained. "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Net Zero by 2040 across England and Wales is tough, but right. They can't plan properly if the soil beneath their feet isn't secure. That is £1.2bn of public money spent on quality food that is genuinely better for peoples' health, a clear target for every year we are in government. And 50 per cent is just the minimum.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Indeed, it is widely accepted Britons could on the whole do with eating less red meat and more vegetables and nuts for health reasons alone. 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.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

So many little blue flames that we now know are harming our children, affecting our respiratory health, and aren't particularly good for the environment anyway," he added. So if America can quickly focus on those known technology substitutes and switch over in the next decade, the harder sectors can be decarbonized by 2040 and 2050 targets.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health. Verizon, Indian IT services giant Infosys and British consumer goods brand Reckitt Benckiser became the first global companies to join Amazon's Climate Pledge initiative , committing to reach "carbon neutrality" by 2040.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. said in December.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2040 : The artic will become ice-free in the summer. 2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted. Our future: Scenario 1. 2030 : The Amazon rainforest will be cut down to the point where it will no longer produce enough water to self-sustain. This process is termed dieback. Our planet is 4°C (39.2°F)

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Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

It is also designed, at its core, to generate economic and health benefits. It is keenly attuned to the health benefits of a clean energy future. The package of policies would also avoid an estimated 62,000 premature deaths annually by 2050 and deliver nearly $8 trillion in climate and health benefits by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. million hectares of land, forests, and oceans by 2030. The retailer is aiming to become what it calls a 'regenerative company'.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. So many little blue flames that we now know are harming our children, affecting our respiratory health, and aren't particularly good for the environment anyway," he added. Now picture "7.1

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 6, 2021

Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking input on how it should structure a carbon bank , which could pay farmers for sequestering carbon in their soil (either paying them directly or indirectly by guaranteeing minimum prices for soil health credits). On a related note, the U.S.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. Here are a few specific examples of big new and interesting commitments in 2019: Amazon will be carbon neutral by 2040 and will buy 100,000 EVs. People are taking notice.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

“So many little blue flames that we now know are harming our children, affecting our respiratory health, and aren’t particularly good for the environment anyway,” he added. It won’t be airplanes, it’ll be wind turbines.” Sixty-nine million U.S. Now picture “7.1

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Regenerative Organic Alliance developed a standard to support farmers who promote soil health. Verizon, Indian IT services giant Infosys and British consumer goods brand Reckitt Benckiser became the first global companies to join Amazon’s Climate Pledge initiative , committing to reach “carbon neutrality” by 2040.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Universal Healthcare A coronavirus-proof world requires massive international cooperation and global-scale public health infrastructure. Capitalist globalization took off in the stark absence of a global public health infrastructure. Here are the three major ones. In a March 25, 2020 TED talk that has already received over 1.9

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