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. Sharma likened accepting the industry’s proposed climate solutions to “‘putting band aids on an extractive system”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

A new report by the think tank claims the UK can achieve its statutory net zero emissions targets for the land-use sector by supporting farmers and land managers to create healthy natural carbon sinks, such as woodlands, peatlands, and soils.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Below are the responses from 11 of the 12 Emerging Leaders, lightly edited for clarity and length, and presented in alphabetical order by last name. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! What made you hopeful or inspired during GreenBiz 21?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple has launched a "first-of-its-kind" $200m forestry fund aimed at removing "at least" one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, promising to scale and support projects that sequester CO2, improve biodiversity and adhere to "strict environmental and social standards".

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

For all the growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and high profile investor demands for corporates to tackle escalating climate risks, many asset managers remain 'blind' to the threat to their portfolios posed by global biodiversity loss and are consistently failing to engage with carbon intensive businesses.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A carbon removal facility in Iceland that came online in 2021. Climeworks.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we navigate the intricacies of biomass conversion processes and their impacts on our planet, we encroach upon a dialogue pivotal for the present and future of energy consumption. Types of Biomass Materials and Conversion Processes Unearthing Energy: The Conversion of Biomass Resources How does biomass energy work?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

And so we present you with our 26-tip checklist guide to sustainable food management for the office cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Our food supply chain has a high carbon footprint contributing to climate change. Plus vegetarian and vegan diets need 26.9%

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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. Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land. 2017, Faulk, 2019).

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

DarkBlack Carbon was only officially founded four months ago, but believes it is already primed to be a market leader for biochar in the UK "It's got everything, hasn't it?" says Liz Casely, co-founder of UK start-up DarkBlack Carbon. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. billion hectares of new forests to be planted, which would equate to an area five times the size of India, or more than all of the farmland presently on the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade. The estimates come in the government's response to a host of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year on the role for carbon removals in the net zero transition.

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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. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because Myno’s process for producing biochar and carbon-negative energy from wood waste and forest-thinning slash piles will help our state reduce the risk of wildfires on our public lands. Within the CRF, some carbon in the feedstock will be converted into 18 MW of renewable baseload power at the Kettle Falls Generating Station.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The IPCC tends to present its latest dossier of evidence roughly every seven to eight years. At present, the climate is around 1.1C Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. It is now 'unequivocal' that human activity is driving the climate crisis. above pre-industrial times by the end of the century.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

This biodiversity crisis is unleashing equally well documented risks for human civilisation, including but not limited to diminished soil fertility, pollinator loss, increased flood and wildfire impacts, eroded food security from land and sea, rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource insecurity, and, of course, new and dangerous disease vectors.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

We should claim back our food heritage and fight climate change with nutritious foods that benefit the soils we're rapidly depleting, argues Bold Beans founder Amelia Christie-Miller. Plant-based meats, meanwhile, have been shown in some studies to generate the same carbon emissions as chicken.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

So-called nature-based solutions to climate change - harnessing trees, soils, and seagrass to such up carbon - are very much in vogue at the moment, and are increasingly being looked at by companies seeking to offset their own emissions while boosting biodiversity. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to growing interest in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds, investors are rapidly moving into the sector, keen to improve the green credentials of their portfolios while also capitalising on the burgeoning financial opportunities provided by sustainable timber and carbon offsetting schemes.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Regardless of what a business says, and how it wants to present itself, an unsustainable business is ultimately at risk of failure. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Posing an investment risk.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. These graphs are divided into two sections– 12 socio-economic and 12 Earth systems from 1750 to present-day which present strong evidence that the Earth has entered a new state or epoch.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We present eight alternative materials to be used in place of the standard polyethylene bag and compare the environmental impact of each. The carbon footprint of plastic is ~ 6kg CO2 per kg.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) is the government's flagship post-Brexit farming subsidy initiative, which aims to pay farmers for providing a range of environmental services such as boosting flood protection, tree planting, and improving air, water, and soil quality.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. Shell had other plans.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to ongoing melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets, sea levels are likely to rise by an average of 28-55cm by 2100 and potentially 76cm by 2150, even under a scenario which sees the world slash emissions to net zero by the middle of the current century, followed by shifts towards net negative emissions thereafter.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future. On balance, this presents more good news than bad, but this development will prove highly disruptive as even fewer young people will finance the pensions of the retired.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Neither current politics or technology will be enough, the report’s writers say, estimating how present food production and distribution habits point to a yawning 56 percent “food gap” between what was produced in 2010 and food that will be needed in 2050. The report sets out to bridge three hauntingly wide “gaps.”

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Both natural and technological means of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must be rapidly scaled up in addition to deep cuts in emissions in the current decade and beyond if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, a fresh analysis today has warned. goal within reach, Energy Transitions Commission warns.

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