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Time for adaptation?

Envirotec Magazine

In the article ‘Ten Tests for COP’ Tina Rothery and Rupert Read outline recommended measures including the restoration of natural biodiverse flood defences such as mangroves. What’s needed, he suggests, is a form of transformational adaptation, that “acknowledges the need for system change”.

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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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COP15 in Montreal: What does the landmark biodiversity conference mean for business?

Business Green

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Revealed: UK supermarkets linked to beef suppliers driving illegal Amazon deforestation

Business Green

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5 Reign of fire.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”. This kicked off a discussion of “space junk” in the press, with articles and political cartoons calling astronauts “litterbugs.” NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.