GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe. Over 1,000 companies have committed to science-based targets for climate change, but the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) thinks companies need to start making science-based commitments on nature as well as for climate. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Agriculture as a climate change solution rather than a cause of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

billion based on exchange rates this week) over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature. "If

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill establishes a new “independent watchdog”, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), to fulfil this role, and it will seemingly hold the government to account on long-term, legally-binding targets in relation to biodiversity, air quality, water and waste management as well as its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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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.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

The circular economy concept is all about making better use of natural resources such as forests, soil, water, air, metals and minerals. billion tons) and play a crucial role in averting the dangerous impacts of climate change. Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The freshwater change planetary boundary has been transgressed, according to a new international study. Green water is the water cycle available to plants, including rainfall and soil moisture. But we are profoundly changing the water cycle. It depends on soil moisture for its survival.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kaitiaki Consulting, which is based in Scotland and New Zealand, has brought in specialists in forestry, ornithology, botany, soil science and a raft of other key sciences as it ramps up its activities. Earlier in August, it launched a drive for investors to help in the fight against climate change, with a £100,000 share release.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

The National Food Strategy also fails to address the threats to food security posed by biodiversity loss and climate change, despite these being identified as “the biggest medium to long term risk to the UK’s domestic production” in the UK Food Security Report 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New research will monitor the contribution of new native woodland in England towards mitigating the worst effects of climate change, such as flooding. They will measure rainfall, soil properties and streamflow and track changes over time. Image credit: Mark Bickerdike. Less is known about new woodlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Protections like the Habitats Regulations must be strengthened, not removed, if Government is to have any hope of delivering its promises for restoring nature and tackling climate change. The estimated cost to UK farmers of soil degradation alone is £1.2 billion each year.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said it was exciting to see the strong focus on forests at this week’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in Egypt, with Australia joining world leaders in committing to halting forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Climate change is disrupting the rhythms of spring growing and river flooding across Europe, which could pose new problems for biodiversity and food security in floodplains, according to one group of researchers. That raises a lot of questions about the effect that might have on the European landscape.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. NFM is viewed as a key way to address the challenges of the biodiversity and climate crisis, by improving resilience to flooding, enhancing biodiversity, storing carbon and helping regulate the local climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Land use changes such as set-aside, switching arable to grassland or restricted hillside cropping, can improve infiltration and increase water retention.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But these policies often address climate change in isolation without regard for other pressing issues like a decline in biodiversity, the contamination of freshwater sources, and the pollution of agricultural soils. targets on biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate mitigation; its also more cost-effective.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Climate change is likely to be the primary cause of the declines of some mountain plants such as Alpine Lady-fern, Alpine Speedwell and Snow Pearlwort which depend on areas where the snow lies late in the spring and summer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite being on the same west-facing elevation, one of those sections had been retrofitted with an exterior living wall façade, comprised of a flexible felt fabric sheet system with pockets allowing for soil and planting. lower than that of the original structure.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 17, 2021

The threat of climate change is radically changing the world and farmers are feeling the effects as they seek to increase yields while battling extreme weather events, accelerating crop diseases, and price uncertainty. This three-part blog series explores how carbon farming might help fight climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The UK government has this week launched a major new consultation on how to reduce ammonia emissions from solid urea fertilisers, which have been widely blamed for exacerbating air pollution and soil degradation. Peat bogs are a vital carbon sink and their conservation is critical for tackling climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

A black-tailed godwit on the Blackwater estuary in Maldon, Essex (image credit: Stefanie Carter) While the marshes may have meant danger for Pip in Great Expectations , these wetland habitats are important wildlife havens and mitigate climate change. At present, the UK only has about 45,000 hectares of natural saltmarsh remaining.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. Food production benefits are relevant, too, given that crop failure is a significant negative impact of climate change, devastating communities and forcing migration.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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