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Restoring Degraded Forests Could Bring Back Lost Rainfall, Cooler Temperatures

The City Fix

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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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. Cities, meanwhile, can be cooled by parks and ponds and greening streets and buildings' rooftops and walls.