Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We believe we can't wait for consensus definitions to start making progress. The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Without agreed-upon definitions, it makes it even harder for companies to prove they are making good on their commitments.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Biodiversity 88

Grist

AUGUST 23, 2023

It was June 21, 2023 — the edge of summertime in Acadia National Park, and I was schlepping soil to help restore biodiversity to the park’s summits. “One reason for that is that there probably isn’t any soil left in these degraded areas,” Nadeau said.

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Soil Organic Climate change Health 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years. JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. based environmental organization.

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Soil Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Carbon-negative 89

Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship, and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 143

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

These themes are not definitive — when we invest, we look for transformative teams and technologies, areas ripe for innovation, and where we can make the most impact. Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems.

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Stormwater Resilience Smart Cities Startups 98

Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

According to the best available science, we now have less than a decade to undertake civilization-scale, concerted action if we are to avoid ‘locking in’ the worst effects of climate change, and the risks from the collapse of biodiversity and the loss of nature are no less existential. That is the very definition of sustainable development.

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Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 104

Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

We are altering the chemistry of our atmosphere and oceans in ways that will negatively impact future generations, and on land, we deplete our soil more rapidly than it can possibly replenish. And yet despite all this, I believe our system of capital markets and competition between companies has to be a major part of the solution.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative 85

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. Industrial monocultures are destroying ecosystems, poisoning watercourses and removing soil, and don’t produce as much per hectare as small farms anyway. It’s not something that can continue if we want to survive, let alone thrive.

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Grist

JULY 8, 2024

Read Next Peatlands could become a climate feedback loop we definitely don’t want to trigger Alexandria Herr When turf is cut from these sites, carbon is released, and the land is dried out, decreasing the bog’s naturally wet environment. Peatlands absorb and store twice as much carbon as all of the world’s forests combined.

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Carbon Natural gas Government Soil 101

Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. Community farms.

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Global warming Ethics Biodiversity Agriculture 95

Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

But what we’re facing is not a normal problem – it’s not hyperbole to say that it’s the biggest and most dangerous problem that humanity has ever faced, and (when combined with biodiversity loss), the only one we’ve ever faced with the potential to make us extinct. And GDP growth means that material consumption will definitely continue.

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COP Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon 113

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. We’re definitely concerned,” Bryan Ellis, a forester with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, told Grist.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 145

Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

IPPR has today called on the government to establish a 'new deal' for farmers that sets out how it plans to curb the agricultural sector's heavy toll on the climate and biodiversity while enabling workers to navigate various challenges related to Brexit, an ageing workforce, technological disruption, and environmental impacts.

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Government Policy Agriculture Biodiversity 53

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. And if the size of the crowd during BusinessGreen 's visit on a hot, stuffy August evening is anything to go by, there is definitely an audience for such an approach.

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Fashion Soil Sustainability Innovation 68

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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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. Climate change is very definitely throwing up those kinds of risks, and we are not thinking clearly about what lies ahead.". The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We believe we can’t wait for consensus definitions to start making progress. The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Without agreed-upon definitions, it makes it even harder for companies to prove they are making good on their commitments.

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Agriculture Climate change Soil Biodiversity 28

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 A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 77

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

So we're definitely trying to throw open some of these issues by putting more focus on the changes that come ahead, so that they feel more political heat for that. So urgent are these threats, in fact, that the CCC is calling on the government to immediately address eight priority risk areas "at the latest in the next two years".

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Resilience Climate change Government Health 101

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

On top of storing carbon, the trees planted through the programme protect soil, boost local biodiversity, and provide new income opportunities to farmers from timber and fruits, according to the company. Even if you put a dollar value to it, the dollar value on water and on biodiversity would be much bigger than carbon.".

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Carbon Agriculture Soil Biodiversity 48

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

But it's still the wild west, and these developments haven't resulted in a shared standard or even a definition that everyone agrees upon. Nothing will destroy the soil microbiome faster than those." Instead of giving my neighbor money to destroy the soil, give me an incentive to do crop rotation,'" Dillon said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Focused mostly on England, due to devolved responsibilities across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, it sets out clear roles for local and national governments, private investment, the farming industry, and the circular economy in helping to restore nature, bolster natural resources, and enhance biodiversity.

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Government Biodiversity Policy Agriculture 41

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

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Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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. Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine N.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

If the government is serious about tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, it should make it compulsory for UK financial institutions and companies to only invest in forest-risk commodities, such as soy, beef, and palm oil, that meet a clear sustainability threshold, an independent taskforce of experts has warned.

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Investment Biodiversity Government Sustainability 36

Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Although Xiong’s previous research using space-exposed seeds has identified mutant varieties of wheat that are more tolerant to saline soil , which can prove useful as saltwater encroaches on agricultural fields thanks to rising sea levels, she hopes to identify others that are resistant to dry conditions or use nitrogen more efficiently.

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Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 67

Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As I argued in Part 1 of this piece , many biological removal credits (such as soil and afforestation) shouldn’t qualify for Scope 1 or 2 carbon offsets because of varying concerns over durability, additionality, and/or shortcomings in monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV). What to Do About Scope 3 Carbon Offsets.

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Carbon Soil Organic Logistics 52

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

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Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. This fall, Timberland plans to introduce a collection of boots using regenerative leather sourced from Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed ranches.

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Investment Agriculture Fashion Soil 36

GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. There is no clear definition. This was no esoteric inquiry. What is agroforestry?"

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Agriculture Investment Soil Carbon 545

Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Organic 52

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. I therefore definitely recommend this book if you are interested in the subject. This book is all about how we can increase our food production for all mankind in a tasty, sustainable manner. Deforestation.

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Organic Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Smallholders are calling on the EU to scrap Ireland’s nitrates derogation, arguing that pollution of the air, waterways and soil is causing havoc to the land and their livelihoods. Organic farmers keep soil fertile by growing and rotating crops, adding matter such as compost or manure and using clover to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.

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Agriculture Organic Soil Biodiversity 104

Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. However, Jayawardena is understood to have asked officials to look at extending the definition of BMV to cover middling to low grade land with a 3b classification. Far from it.

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Government Soil Agriculture Policy 101

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. What is less clear is who owns the responsibility for the development of these definitions and frameworks.

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