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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint.

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SDG17, coronavirus, and the battle for a collaborative future

Business Green

Dubbed Partnership for the Goals, the wide-ranging targets covering everything from technology to trade, capacity-building to multi-stakeholder partnerships, and data and monitoring to accountability, were developed in the same year as the Paris Agreement amply demonstrated the merits of multilateralism.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

Business Green

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. warming target remains within reach.