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Carbon Sequestration Biochar, a stable form of carbon produced during straw charcoal making, has the remarkable ability to sequester carbon in the soil for centuries. This aids in mitigating climate change by locking away carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. ...
The FORWARDS-project has launched a funding call to set up Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) and forest restoration pilots across Europe. These pilots will serve as a basis for developing an evidence-based understanding of effective CSF and restoration management practices in supporting climate change mitigation, adaptation, and ...
Diane Nicholls, a Canadian forester with over 25 years’ experience in forestry and sustainability will lead Drax’s North American biomass sustainability strategy. The former Chief Forester for British Columbia is joining the renewable energy company and will work with its teams to ensure the biomass it supplies meets the highest sustainability standards and expectations – ...
The farming rules for water were introduced in 2018 by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, brought in to reduce and prevent diffuse water pollution from agricultural sources. The regulations cover the management of livestock and of soil, as well as the application and storing of fertilisers. However, it has just been revealed in a Guardian exclusive that the number of ...
It is critical to maintaining biodiversity habitats and necessary for climate change mitigation and adaptation plans in the long term. One of the most popular and essential uses of reforestation is carbon credits, which are becoming increasingly crucial for businesses looking to offset their environmental impact. ...
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources, introduced the bipartisan Rural Forests Markets Act to help small-scale, family foresters access new economic opportunities through climate solutions like carbon markets. This is the latest piece of bipartisan ...
SFM is the ABC of biodiversity conservation in forests Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), with its variety of practices adapted to local circumstances, should be seen as an opportunity to safeguard biodiversity, taking into consideration the impact of climate change while ensuring that other multiple ecosystem services provided by forests can be delivered ...
Although one of the big debates across the press and media has been the doubt cast on the environmental benefits of a vegetarian diet, arguing that calorie for calorie provided, eating meat is no worse for the environment, the big environmental news this month comes from Paris. The climate change deal, struck between 195 countries, seeks to keep temperature rises ...
So how could PT PEAK obtain a license to develop this land in 2013? Who changed the moratorium map that is supposed to protect this peatland? ...
Based on a retrospective analysis (1961-2012), the experts (agronomists, economists, political scientists and operators in the agri-food sector) worked on the trends for this system under the effects of technical progress, greater mastery of irrigation, improvements to diet, limiting losses and waste or demographic and economic changes. One of the principal conclusions reached by ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture offers the opportunity to design best options to tackle food security as well as to reach a resilient agriculture that also contributes to mitigating climate change. ...
Global forest conservation measures meant to mitigate climate change are likely to drive massive cropland expansion into shrublands or savannahs to satisfy the ever-growing hunger for arable land. ...
Scion would like to use the techniques for preventing the spread of wilding-pines, increasing tolerance to climate change, resistance to pathogens and improving wood quality and growth rate in response to shifts in the market place. ...
Climate change fundamentally shifts the agricultural development agenda. ...
Member States will have to spend at least 30 % of their rural development funding from the EU budget on certain measures related to land management and the fight against climate change, and at least 5 % on the LEADER approach. [For the 30%, this covers The measures concerned will be: Investments in physical assets (environment- / climate-related ...
The technique has attracted scientific and commercial interest as a way to generate carbon credits, and as a potential climate change mitigation mechanism. Some also proposed it as a way to boost fish populations. ...
During recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of bioenergy as a means to mitigate climate change. However, significant increases in food prices have raised concerns that bioenergy crops are competing for land with food crops. ...
The European Parliament voted today to establish common rules for the accounting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals resulting from activities related to land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF). The Parliament significantly improved the European Commission’s proposal by introducing mandatory accounting of emissions and removals from cropland and grazing ...
Illegal logging has severe economic, environmental and social impacts: it is associated with deforestation and climate change, it can undermine the efforts and livelihoods of legitimate operators, and it can also contribute to conflicts over land and resources. ...
This development will open the EU doors to palm oil under the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) without any guarantees that this will contribute to climate change mitigation or safeguard forests and tropical peatlands. ...