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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. We’re seeing the end of the commodity era, where materials are sourced from largely unknown origins and bought purely for price on a transactional basis. Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. Are there more companies with stated strategies?

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Putting Humans Into Climate Models

Energy Innovation

A couple years ago, a team of climate scholars posed a provocative question: “The Earth has humans, so why don’t our climate models?” Researchers are beginning to respond by modeling factors like public opinion, social norms, climate risk perception, technology learning rates, and the interactions between them. Beckage et al.,

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

While new forest strategies have been declared in recent months — Tyson Foods published its forest protection standard in November after a lengthy assessment by nonprofit Proforest — the dialogue around deforestation was relatively muted last year, when compared to the tree-planting movement. “Are there more companies with stated strategies?

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