The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. Just think about this: According to WEP, consumers in wealthy nations squander nearly as much food annually as is produced in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Ways To Decrease.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition to protecting 2.1

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While the UK government claims that the country's emissions have fallen by 41 per cent since 1990, this figure is based on calculations that include only emissions produced on British soil.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe. However, his purported appointment comes as something of a surprise given the UN had indicated that it would "especially welcome" female candidates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C Increasing urbanisation is a risk - and also an opportunity.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Johnson’s earlier work, a few years ago and 10,000 miles away in Cape Town, South Africa, brought to life another area’s long-deferred hopes. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.". Elsa Wenzel.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

” —Elsa Wenzel Briana Buckles, 29 Sustainability Manager, East West Tea Company; Eugene, Oregon LinkedIn Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.” “I guess they just really like me.”

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