DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2024

And they’re putting on an unorthodox show for the handful of humans who know where, and how, to tune in — a complex symphony of vibrations and pulses that relay the state of the very soils these organisms are moving within. All told, the ground beneath our feet houses the most biodiverse habitat on the planet. We need to do something.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

We urge policymakers and scientists to embark on ambitious research into tyre wear pollution to fully understand and reduce their impacts on biodiversity and health, as well as research to reduce the generation of these particles.” That’s why we need to look beyond just carbon and to consider human-made pollution in all its forms.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

These measures provide real-time data, a much needed quantitative basis for organizations to strategize and mitigate environmental, social and economic risks. This data can be collected internally as a measurement integral to an organization’s daily activities or outside using third-party ratings and indices.

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Charged

JANUARY 3, 2025

This would also reduce the potential negative environmental effects on water, soil and biodiversity from those mines. As well as reducing both extraction and imports of raw materials, recycling within Europe could cut the carbon footprint of sourcing lithium by around 19% compared to extracting it in Australia and refining it in China.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Note: You will need to create a Thomas account to access this directory.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. During the second day of Explore 2021, our customers shared how they are enabling global transparency and supporting critical sustainability research. All Rights Reserved.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

This blog is the first in a series on common understandings and approach to waste mitigation, resource optimization and organization adaptive modernization. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Thinking about these three focus areas, are they enough to infer whether an organization is sustainable or not?

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

On Earth Day 2016, the United Nations formally adopted the Paris Agreement, articulating the commitment of nations to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celcius over pre-industrial levels; and to strengthen the ability of countries to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. Earth Day in 2020.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. For example, to fully transition the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

million hectares of peatland are in a degraded state and are no longer actively sequestering carbon, citing figures that suggest the habitat could now be emitting more carbon annually than the nation's agricultural sector. If we're serious about carbon in UK we have to look after our peatlands first.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. Most important of all, academics, campaigners, and the European Commission , say the impacts of failing to act on the extinction crisis far outweigh any predicted negative impacts of green reforms. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

L earn how governments and organizations leverage broad area management to monitor change across vast geographies and timescales. Organizations across various sectors increasingly rely on real-time data and actionable insights to make informed decisions. Let’s take a look at each.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A new consensus on forests from the world’s leading carbon market governing body marks a significant turning point for voluntary carbon market (VCM) buyers. The ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label is emerging as a global marker of carbon credit quality. Why Should Corporate Buyers Care About the ICVCM?

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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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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It joins a growing number of startup support organizations and startup companies already located or locating there, as well as Houston-based accelerator programs including MassChallenge (also founded in Greater Boston, Mass.), gener8tor, Impact Hub Houston, and others.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 20, 2022

We are in a planetary crisis, with biodiversity loss, ecocide, and climate change urgently requiring greater action. Entire industries that could benefit from our products who largely are not yet using them at scale, from insurance to finance, carbon markets to regenerative agriculture. Planet’s Second Decade.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action - from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" - are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Since the BRT statement there’s been a surge in aggressive carbon-reduction goals, up from just a handful of organizations a decade ago, to two-thirds of Fortune Global 500 companies with significant commitments today. The world’s biggest challenges — climate change, inequality, biodiversity destruction — are getting worse.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. He added: “Reducing emissions from livestock requires involving farmers, ranchers, and companies and organizations across animal agriculture.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But climate change is not the only ecological threat - it is widely agreed that damage to the natural environment and loss of biodiversity pose a comparable risk. Whether it is raw materials, water, flood protection, biodiversity or pollination, nature provides most of the capital businesses need for the production of goods and services.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Supporting these findings, the Harvard Business Review reports 99% of large company CEOs want to address sustainability issues as a must for the future success of their organization. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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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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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Meet Mitchell Hora. Mitchell is a farmer in Iowa. Makes sense.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

At CES 2020, French startup myfood presented a smart greenhouse that it says can grow up to 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of organic fruits and vegetables a year with only a few hours of work a week. The startup has distributed nearly 200 smart greenhouses in 14 countries around the world and hopes to target the North American market next.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. 400+ sessions.

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