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UN report: People have wrecked 40% of all the land on Earth

Grist

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. People have altered 70 percent of Earth’s lands from their natural state and degraded up to 40 percent.

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'Disturbing': Why climate remains the single biggest global economic threat

Business Green

In addition, climate and environmental threats loom large over WEF's long-term risk outlook, with climate action failure, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural resource crises, and human environmental damage making up the entire list of the top five risks facing the global economy over the next decade.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. It plans further reductions by 2022, according to the press release Mars issues to trumpet this achievement. .

Policy 544
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Net Zero Nature: Can business and nature join forces in the climate fight?

Business Green

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. It plans further reductions by 2022, according to the press release Mars issues to trumpet this achievement.

Policy 28
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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Members serving in the 2021-2022 term are: Trevor Anderson. (He/Him/His) Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Dan also is serving his second term as a Commissioner on his city’s Sustainability Commission.