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The NICFI Satellite Data Program: Celebrating Three Years of Using Space to Help Reduce & Reverse Tropical Forest Loss

Planet Pulse

By Seamus Lombardo, Luisa Teixeira, Tara O’Shea Every quarter, we publish a blog post that highlights some of the amazing work of the NICFI Satellite Data Program’s community of users. Yet these indigenous communities and their ancestral lands are under intense deforestation pressure and subject to a host of negative impacts of forest loss.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel.

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

The absence of locks, weirs, and dams makes the river a lifeline for more than a thousand species, a busy passageway for migrating birds and fish, and a place of refuge for numerous endangered animals, including the European eel. Where and how do they find projects? How do they find partners? But the picture is much more complicated.

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EU recovery package: Net zero launch pad or missed opportunity?

Business Green

Michel conceded negotiations had been difficult, but was quick to hail the resulting recovery package - known as the Next Generation EU fund - and 2021-27 long-term budget agreement as a "pivotal moment in Europe's journey" that would "also launch us into the future". "In And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.".

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Sustainable Freight: Towards a Greener Air Cargo Culture

The Environmental Blog

Or will it always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions? Within the transport sector, other modes such as road vehicles have already made significant strides towards carbon neutrality. As things stand, aviation and shipping currently account for 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Inadequacy in political frameworks.