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

Business Green

The results of the poll also reveal significant demand for businesses to do more to tackle the problem, with 35 per cent of respondents believing companies are primarily responsible for ensuring goods sold in the UK do not support the destruction of nature overseas, according to WWF.

Law 101
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Drying Up in a Flash: What Satellite Data Can Tell Us about Flash Drought Risks and the Regions We Should Be Watching

Planet Pulse

Imagine an insatiably thirsty atmosphere that gets so hot and dry that it literally sucks the water right out of crops and the soil. But for now, let’s look at the way we can harness Soil Water Content data to analyze rapid changes in global soil moisture.

Soil 98
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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. And it gets worse.

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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.