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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. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is increasingly giving us the tools to do just that. 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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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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Carbfix turns emissions into stone

AGreenLiving

While it sounds like an evil power out of a fairy tale, and maybe there is a little bit of magic to Carbfix’s approach, we’ll assume its proprietary technology is scientific. Carbfix’s technology just makes the process of the carbon getting into the rocks a lot faster. Here’s how it works. But, so do rocks.

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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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Dire Scientific Warnings from the Study of Fossilized Shells and Our Hope for the Future

Green Market Oracle

Thus far in 2020 we have seen 25 named storms in the Atlantic, making this only the second time that the the World Meteorological Organization has run out of human for storms in the Atlantic. We will need to deploy technological solutions on a vast scale while massively reducing resource and energy consumption.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

We would suggest that is arguably impossible, both economically and technologically. Currently, society is continuing to subsidise the combustion of fossil fuels at a direct and indirect cost the IMF estimates to have been $5.9tr in 2020. The response. Gt challenge.

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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.”.