Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition to protecting 2.1 So the UK is absolutely committed to tackling global deforestation.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm. percent of the GDP of the USA.

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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 Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Thanks to high precision modeling, they determined that most tropical forest aspects, including the soil , trees, and living organisms, can be restored to their natural state over time. Apart from mitigating deforestation’s side effects, it also helps restore and retain the forest’s original biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

Incremental improvements to production efficiency will not be enough to turn the tide on biodiversity loss. Many of the risks related to fats and oils, such as human rights abuses, biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor working conditions, are recurring features of agricultural commodity supply chains.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There have been growing calls for more robust policing and governance mechanisms in the rapidly-growing voluntary carbon market sector, amid concerns that a corporate rush towards carbon credits will fail to deliver promised benefits to the climate, biodiversity and communities living near offset projects.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

They point out that already some countries like Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. 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).

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. Wildebeest are particularly effective allies in the climate fight.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

It’s being grown in the Senegal River Basin in West Africa. 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. Rice, which is a food source for 3.5 And a team of U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

All while supporting wildlife and community projects in Africa. That's why we are not only committed to recycling and reusing our network equipment, but are actively identifying biodiversity hotspots that we can support through these very same networks. Alongside this sits our network equipment waste, 99.8

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Massive flooding destroyed at least 4 million acres of farmland in Pakistan in 2022, triggering a food crisis for more than 8 million people; in East Africa, extreme drought has pushed millions of people to the brink of famine in the past three years. In the United States, natural disasters, many made worse by climate change, caused $21.5

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2022

Calls continue to mount for a global treaty to protect oceans ahead of a major UN marine biodiversity conference this week, amid further evidence of the plight of marine life and ocean environments caused by industrial fishing practices worldwide. It added that under a hugely optimistic 1.6C It supports the livelihoods of 12.3 million people.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past century, the toxic additive has contaminated air, dust, soil, drinking water, and food crops, with hugely damaging impacts on human health, including heart disease, strokes and cancer, in addition to affecting the development of the human brain, especially in children.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R. Irvine, Aletta Bonn, 2019 This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions. A commitment backed by $130tr in assets for the net zero transition by GFANZ, the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. In rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia, many places in Africa, all around the world, people eat many kinds of insects. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Grist

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earths land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils. These interwoven trends threaten agricultural productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem health while exacerbating food and water insecurity.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage. When tree planting goes wrong.

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