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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

AGreenLiving

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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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

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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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

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. Virgin Islands.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

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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Fairtrade Foundation: UK must clean up food supply chains and stop 'dumping' emissions on poor nations

Business Green

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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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

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.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

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.