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Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Terra Infirma

Not the southern region of South America, of course, but the outdoor clothing company which has a reputation as something of a Sustainability maverick in the mould of its founder Yvon Chouinard.

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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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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

The most severe drought took place in northeastern South America from 2015 to 2016, followed by the ongoing drought in the Cerrado region of Brazil. In terms of intensity, it was three times as large as the next biggest rain event: the floods that covered much of the Midwestern and Eastern United States starting in 2018.

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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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Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

Grist

The most severe drought took place in northeastern South America from 2015 to 2016, followed by the ongoing drought in the Cerrado region of Brazil. In terms of intensity, it was three times as large as the next biggest rain event: the floods that covered much of the Midwestern and Eastern United States starting in 2018.

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Mining Giants Embrace Renewables, But Decarbonization Remains a Steep Climb

GreenTechMedia

Glencore, the sector’s biggest carbon polluter in 2016 according to an analysis by Rocky Mountain Institute, is on target to cut emissions by a mere 5 percent between 2016 and 2020. Both Rio Tinto and Glencore are expected to unveil new targets this year.

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Amazon risks becoming a savannah as deforestation impact grows, study war

Business Green

They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016. The Gran Chaco is the largest dry forest in South America, around a quarter of the size of the entire European Union.