Fairsnape

OCTOBER 9, 2019

However since its publication in 2016, the world of sustainability has moved on, we now have recognition of a climate and biodiversity emergency, we are asking how, not why, we have IPCC, UN and UKCC reports, we have extinction rebellion, we have school-strik activists and record breaking protests demanding climate change action.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The International Union for The Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the smooth handfish extinct. This news makes the smooth handfish the first fish species to be declared extinct in modern history. This might mean that these species are also on the verge of extinction.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Haque anticipates civilization will end because of the confluence of climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, economic depressions, financial implosions, political upheavals, pandemics, plagues, floods, fires, and social breakdowns. Extinction is a political choice. F) upper threshold temperature limit.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 13, 2021

CBD) has set out a plan to reverse ecological destruction, cut down extinction rates and promote human coexistence with nature. also aims to reduce the current rate of extinctions by 90%. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (U.N. The draft considers science, financial implications and nature conservation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Insiders welcome constructive atmosphere at high profile talks, but concerns grow the pact's central '30 by 30' nature protection target could be undermined. The negotiations have also reportedly made some progress on sections of the text relating to new technologies such as synthetic biology and gene drives.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A TalkTV presenter co-hosts a YouTube show with the leader of a climate science denial group, on which he has called climate change a “paganistic religion” and said rising CO2 emissions will make the world “more green”. This revelation comes as evidence mounts that climate misinformation is being spread by populist media platforms.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. Ecologist Camille Parmesan, a professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, was the first to speak.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

After Bristol City Council became the first local authority in the UK to declare a 'climate emergency' in 2019 amid widespread climate school strike protests and direct actions carried out by Extinction Rebellion, a wave of similar declarations quickly followed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

above pre-industrial levels and we are now likely in the sixth mass extinction, a period of alarming biodiversity loss. Pinwheel’s Rob Cheesewright sets out why businesses looking to fund emissions reduction outside their direct value chain should steer clear of compensation-based claims. of warming.

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. But when we have committed, we must deliver.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. A Liveable Future at Stake. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The case for business sustainability. 90% of executives believe sustainability is important in business. Today, it’s incontestable that instituting a sustainability strategy is good business. The benefits of this go beyond environmental and social security. In this Green Business Bureau article, we present the case for business sustainability.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Kolbert, a New Yorker staff writer, has been covering the environment for decades: Her first book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe , traced the scientific evidence for global warming from Greenland to Alaska; her second, The Sixth Extinction , followed the growing pace of animal extinctions.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

They’re resilient Not only did sharks survive the extinction event that brought an end to the dinosaurs, but they’ve also survived five total mass extinction events on planet Earth. They survived a mass extinction event that killed 75% of all living species on Earth , including many ocean-dwelling species.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

This piece is adapted from the forthcoming book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next , which will be published by University of California Press in September. The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic. Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Translated from the original published at climatica.lamarea.com. Two numbers. One long-term goal. In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C marked a before and after.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

The Earth is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction , and it’s picking up speed. Related: Trump administration moves to weaken Endangered Species Act amid global extinction risks The researchers analyzed numbers and distribution of critically endangered species. The sixth, the study finds, is our doing.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Hohn, who has previously donated money to Extinction Rebellion and also reportedly holds a £630m stake in Heathrow Airport , also backed up the letters with a warning he is prepared to lodge legal challenges against Barclays, Standard Chartered, and HSBC unless they take action to phase out coal.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Within months, in one of Theresa May's final acts as Prime Minister, the UK became the first major economy in the world to legislate to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century, in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Not a single target set out in the CBD's 2010-2020 strategic plan - known as the Aichi Targets after the Japanese city in which they were agreed - were fully met, despite scientists ever more desperate warnings that the living world is experiencing a "sixth mass extinction" at the hands of human activity.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Andra Yeghoian is the Environmental Literacy Coordinator at the San Mateo County Office of Education. She provides leadership in implementing a broad Environmental Literacy Initiative across San Mateo County. Andra has over 15 years of experience in education across public and private school systems, nationally and internationally. She holds a B.A.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Following the arc of his typical day in the field, he unearths the surprising secrets just beneath the icy surface—from evidence of long-extinct “polar camels” to the fantastically weird microorganisms that live in freezing cryoconite holes—as well as critical clues about the future of our planet. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Happy Monday!    And the climate Oscar goes to… Barbie, for providing us with limitless Kenergy.    Last week, the SEC approved their long-awaited climate reporting requirements. TL;DR “material” scope 1 and 2 are, well, in scope but scope 3 got the chopping block. Not a subscriber yet?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. The Fifth National Climate Assessment , released on Tuesday by the Biden administration, is unique for its focus on the present.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The Relative Importance of Plastic Bags: The tragedy is that we’ve already solved climate collapse, we know what we should do, but people, corporations and governments won’t do it. New Zealand: The School Strike for Climate attracted over 40,000 people to Parliament. There is no doubt that this is the biggest issue we have ever faced.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2019

There is reason for hope even as we teeter on the cusp of an apocalypse. Emissions keep rising and species keep dying as our ecosystems are collapsing all around us. The ignorance and inaction of the old energy industry and national leaderships can make us feel as though we are doomed. Here are a hundred and one such good news stories from 2019.

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