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The Glasgow Climate Pact: What does it mean for Canada’s climate policy?

Clean Energy Canada

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

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Major Animal Pharma Industry Group Forced to Remove UN Logo from ‘Misleading’ Briefing on Livestock Climate Impact

DeSmogBlog

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers. Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

5 Governments like to say that their policies are informed by “the science”; but in this case, as in many others, scientists are at loggerheads with each other. Smith et al, Methods for Calculating Forest Ecosystem and Harvested Carbon with Standard Estimates for Forest Types of the United States, USDA, 2005, [link].

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility. Sponsored Article.

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

AGreenLiving

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility.