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More Record Breaking Heat (Winter and Spring 2020)

Green Market Oracle

This surpassed the record set in January 2016 by 0.02°C. The average global land and ocean surface temperature for February 2020 was 1.17 °C above the 20th-century average and the second-highest on record behind 2016. April 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest April on record worldwide. C above the 20th-century average.

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Bank of America becomes carbon neutral one year ahead of schedule

Business Green

Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Both goals were established in 2016 with a target date of 2021.

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

These illnesses will “continue to tax our public health and medical care systems for years to come,” experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, wrote in a 2016 analysis. between 2016 and 2020. The disease is also prevalent in Mexico and Central and South America. as the environment changes.

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Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

The co-manufacturing deal comes amid rising demand for the company’s flagship product, the plant-based Impossible Burger, which debuted at Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi and other world-class restaurants in 2016. Since launching in Singapore in March 2019, sales have more than quadrupled in Asia. restaurants.

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Buys Goodwill

DeSmogBlog

“It baffles us that the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continues to accept money from ExxonMobil,” wrote climate scientists Michael Mann of Penn State, Kerry Emanuel of MIT, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes in 2016. Filling in For Governments.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) will go down significantly, leading to more economic activity.