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'Moral responsibility': Nature charities back calls for $60bn international biodiversity finance target

Business Green

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned.

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Why collaboration is the missing ingredient in food system reform

GreenBiz

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. food policy. In 2009, scientists at the China Agricultural University moved their research to a village in Hebei province. food policy. food policy. Fri, 01/08/2021 - 01:30. But so are the solutions. Pull Quote.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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Earth Day 22nd April – Importance of protecting our nature amid the Virus spread!

Econaur

In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. The risks faced by ignoring the threats of environmental destruction must be understood and addressed with protections and policies. The day continues to hold great significance.

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Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity

Unsustainable

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Now, the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest in science, policy, and practice. 2009; Steffen, W., There are nine planetary boundaries identified.

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Deregulation drive has crippled progress towards UK's environmental goals, study argues

Business Green

That is the headline conclusion of a damning new report from green campaign group Unchecked UK, which draws on a series of case studies to argue that environmental deregulation has "directly undermined the achievement of government policy goals". Natural England's budget has fallen by 72 per cent and its staff by 20 per cent, it adds.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Carbon offsets can be generated and used under government-approved frameworks, for example to help industrial emitters who continue to emit carbon pollution meet their compliance obligations under climate policies. Policies that employ carbon offsets are in use around the world. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). REFERENCES.

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