DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As The new law also sets out a requirement to ensure any private economic initiative does not damage health or the environment.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Methane faces a reckoning. Some progress on adaptation finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Overall, the agriculture sector accounts for up to one third of greenhouse gasses – and is also a primary driver of biodiversity loss. A key plank of the EU’s Green Deal, the strategy aims to transform farming and align the sector with the bloc’s climate and biodiversity targets. They include precision farming (e.g.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The pact also features a push for Parties "to consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane", piling on further pressure on oil and gas companies to tackle leaks and flaring, and perhaps even agricultural firms to deal with their methane impact. Nature and biodiversity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Au contraire, it is the reverse. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, said: "Those of us living in Africa have been aware of the urgency of the climate crisis for many years. Key to keeping 1.5C ‘alive' will be a marked reduction in the release of highly-potent methane emissions, which could rapidly slow temperature rise.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2021

Stark warnings issued over record greenhouse gas emissions and escalating biodiversity threats. A triptych of sobering new reports have this week highlighted the scale of the climate and biodiversity crises engulfing the world. South Africa announces strengthened 2030 emissions goal.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. In rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia, many places in Africa, all around the world, people eat many kinds of insects. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. What if we could genetically enhance cows to not emit methane anymore?

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said. Over the last 13 years, it has grown into Africa's largest payments service.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. Sustainable Development Goal 7. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  respectively.

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