Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

When the National Farmers Union announced its ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the industry by 2040, it took many by surprise. At the time there was a lot of surprise," NFU president Minette Batters of the 2040 net zero announcement, which she made at a farming conference in Oxford last year. "I

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

By 2040 half of the world's cotton growing regions are expected to face drastic exposure to high temperatures, changes to water availability, and extreme weather events, with impacts set to escalate further unless global greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly curbed.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

The large volume of gloves used in the industrial market means that often gloves are thrown into the garbage after they are soiled or worn out. Well before 2040, Concentric aims to become a net-zero business. A rain barrel collects water while a compost bin turns food scraps into nutrient-rich soil for their organic garden.

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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. We will help on the ground by incentivising farmers to enrich the environment and embrace both climate-smart and regenerative agricultural practices.".

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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

JULY 13, 2021

A Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) certification badge for food, textiles, and personal care ingredients demonstrating that farms and products meet high standards for soil health, animal welfare and social fairness will also now be carried on qualifying products, the tech giant said.

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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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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. 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

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

The Salk Institute is getting $30 million for its Harnessing Plants Initiative, which is focused on soil sequestration. Funding for ocean conservation and carbon sequestration also featured among the initial grantees. WWF is using its funding to protect and restore mangroves forests in Colombia, Fiji, Madagascar and Mexico.

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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

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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Our ambition is to revolutionize the food chain which, literally, starts from the basics: insects and soil," said Antoine Hubert, Ÿnsect's co-founder, president and CEO. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that consumption of animal proteins will grow by 52 per cent between 2007 and 2040.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The addition of five new European certifications - the Associazione Italiana Agricultura Biologica (AIAB), EU Organic, Fair For Life, Natrue, and the Soil Association Certification - brings the total number of product standards recognised by the Climate Pledge Friendly scheme to 31 in Europe, the company said.

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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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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

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Farming on the continent is plagued by under investment and smallholders are already in the grip of the climate crisis, hit by floods, droughts and depleted soils. Our net zero 2040 commitment is one example of our efforts, and we will be transparently reporting our progress along the way. African farmers face critical challenges.

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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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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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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

MARCH 20, 2025

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

Morrisons said the latest initiative would help it deliver on its plan to become directly supplied by net zero British farms by 2030, and to become a net zero emissions supermarket by 2040. UK agriculture currently accounts for around 10 per cent of all UK greenhouse gas emissions, as well has impacting the natural world.

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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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Better Ventures

MAY 20, 2013

The global population will reach nine billion people by 2040. Industrial agriculture depletes soil for future use, introduces synthetic chemicals into food and water supplies, and with 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions, is the single largest contributor to climate change. We’ve got just 2 weeks to go in the program!

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

JBS has recently announced a target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2040 that includes indirect emissions. Regenerative agriculture seeks to restore natural habitats and reverse climate change by restoring soil health and improving its ability to store carbon. The AAA did not respond when DeSmog asked about its emissions claim.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Groups like CropLife Europe, Fertilizers Europe, Euroseeds, and Cefic enjoy significant clout in EU spaces, and are regularly invited to speak at major conferences and provide their expertise as part of advisory groups that guide the commission on everything from fertiliser products to its soil strategy for 2030.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Numerous studies have shown that alternative protein products can deliver huge environmental savings in terms of carbon emissions, water and energy use, and air pollution and soil impacts compared to conventional agricultural products.

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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. 5 GtCO 2 for direct air capture, and a maximum of about 5 GtCO 2 for soil carbon sequestration.

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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

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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

MAY 11, 2021

million tonnes of emissions with bioenergy from straw and soil carbon gains. Similarly, simple best practice methods such as removing manure from barns daily can deliver significant emissions cuts at negligible or even negative cost. This carbon sequestration potential would cover the majority of the projected 4.4

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 23, 2022

If we want to build a world-class EV industry in Canada, it is essential that the federal government considers the whole battery value chain including: transformation, cells manufacturing and processes, recycling and end-of-life battery management, not only the extraction of critical minerals from Canadian soils.”.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One example of an organization with which BCG already works is Indigo Ag, the company behind the Terraton Initiative, an effort to draw down 1 trillion tons of atmospheric CO2 through regenerative agriculture and soil wellness initiatives. It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040.

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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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