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Was the pandemic-driven emissions dip in 2020 just a blip?

Business Green

The others are temperature, ocean heat, sea level, glacial mass, sea ice, and ocean acidification. The WMO uses seven climate indicators to give a broad view of the global climate, and the level of GHG emissions is only one of them.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. This latest study extends that analysis to the realm of wildfires.

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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. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs.

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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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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (to be released on September 25), is expected to highlight major threats to the ocean from climate change, such as declining fish stocks, rising sea levels and increasing ocean acidification.

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Carbfix turns emissions into stone

AGreenLiving

” Carbon emissions are the top reason for global warming and a major factor in extreme weather events and ocean acidification. In 2019, Carbfix became a subsidiary of Reykjavik Energy, then in 2020 it began operating as a separate entity. The project first started in 2006. Carbfix Via EcoWatch Lead image via Pixabay.