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Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential

GreenBiz

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30. In addition to these opportunities, a range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billions of tons of carbon. Importantly, these approaches would not increase ocean acidification. Oceans & Fisheries.

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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. This progressive transition from coral to algae-dominated reef communities reduces the complex habitat that is essential to support high levels of biodiversity.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Plant-based and cultivated seafood companies raised $80 million in 2020, according to the nonprofit Good Food Institute (GFI), which counts 800 companies involved in the space. The company's sales of vegetarian and plant-based items grew by more than $222 million in 2019 and leaped by 40 percent in the first half of 2020. "In

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Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential

AGreenLiving

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 In addition to these opportunities, a range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billions of tons of carbon. degrees Celsius 2.7

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Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential

AGreenLiving

Leveraging the ocean’s carbon removal potential Katie Lebling Wed, 11/11/2020 – 00:30 To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 In addition to these opportunities, a range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billions of tons of carbon. degrees Celsius 2.7

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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Material financial risk is an issue which has likely been thrust to the top of many a boardroom agenda right across the world in 2020. Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

charity Feedback have criticised the focus of meat producers’ emissions strategies on scope 1 and 2 emissions, stating in 2020: “They’re farming companies using the emissions reduction strategies of transport companies rather than coming up with strategies that are consummate with the fact that they are meat and dairy companies.”.