Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

With public health such a huge global priority and the world waking up to the scale of the climate challenge, this makes no sense at all. Responding to the new reports, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the UN, reiterated calls for a shift away from fossil fuels to both limit global warming and tackle air pollution.

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Pollution Health Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 38

Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. Human health and food security is intrinsically tied to the health of insect populations.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

The mortality rate has been estimated at 30 to 60 percent , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and it’s a particular risk in health care settings where infections can easily spread, such as hospitals and nursing homes. auris is also becoming a global problem. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Climate change Europe Global warming 81

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 127

EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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Methane Agriculture Climate change Global warming 98

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Steve Gaines, co-author of the analysis and High Level Panel Expert Group4 representative, said: “Only now are we starting to comprehend the full force that unabated global heating will unleash on our key ocean industries – and it is chilling. Fortunately, bold actions today could have dramatic benefits for most countries.”.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Resilience Sustainability 130

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. degrees Celsius (2.7

Carbon 52

Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 52

Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns.

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Climate change South America Medicine Carbon-negative 92

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

Related: Polar bears could go extinct in 80 years if global warming persists In their pledge, the countries have agreed to reserve at least 30% of the planet’s land and water as natural habitats. The event was addressed by various world leaders, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

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Biodiversity Global warming Africa Politics 36

Front And Centered

JULY 21, 2020

began extracting and burning natural resources at a prodigious rate since 1750, making our country responsible for contributing to about a quarter of global warming. Swarms of them have descended onto Eastern Africa, devouring precious pastures and croplands. Alongside these evils, the U.S. Racism has prevented the U.S.

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Law Global warming Government Health 52

Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Nature is crucial for our survival, our mental health, and also our economy, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Part of my coping package involves nature and its positive impact on my mental health. And of many things we're learning from this public health crisis, one is that nature delivers more for us than just climate mitigation.

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Health Packaging Carbon Global warming 65

Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

million jobs globally, showing just how important the sector will be in creating new jobs around the world. Globally, we need to radically change the way in which we develop and use appliances and technologies to help safeguard the health of the planet.

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Climate change Global warming Innovation Investment 36

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks.

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Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This would mean a doubling of the urban environment and equivalent to 70 million people moving to cities every year for the next three decades, with close to 90 per cent of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.

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Climate change Global warming Health Sustainability 55

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

In contrast, Australia had its driest year on record, and Southern Africa, Central America, and parts of South America received abnormally low rains. Specifically, he argued that the Summit should aim to secure more ambitious national climate plans that will keep global warming to 1.5

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Climate change South America Global warming Asia 73

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Increasingly hotter global temperatures mean the sea ice, which would have formed a barrier to protect the island from storms, forms much later in the storm season and melts much sooner.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Africa 98

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Under the relentless sun in Africa, the birthplace of humanity, every living thing had to find a way to beat the heat. People over the age of 60, who account for an estimated 80 percent of the 12,000 heat-related deaths in the United States each year, often have health conditions that make heat more dangerous.

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Climate change Cooling Health Solar Energy Monitor 83

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

We have written, here , that ocean acidification disrupts the growth and productive health of some sea life, the most vulnerable being shellfish larvae, and developing fish. A study conducted in 2016, reveals an 80-95% rate of failure in feeding dives by seabirds along the southwest coast of Africa. million metric tons.

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Ocean acidification Seafood Carbon-negative Climate change 46

Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

In countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, South Africa, and Spain, solar PV plus storage is expected to compete on cost with fossil gas power by 2030, it states, with standalone wind and solar power likely to compete with gas even sooner in many regions, reaching parity in the mid to late 2020s.

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Fossil fuels Demand Hydrogen Carbon-negative 50

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But Global North groups dominate. But its problems go well beyond the farm.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 135

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The window for action is narrowing, it warns, with every fraction of a degree of warming set to make adaptation efforts more difficult and expensive, it notes. The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Pörtner.

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Such impacts "are causing severe and widespread disruption in nature and in society; reducing our ability to grow nutritious food or provide enough clean drinking water, thus affecting people's health and well-being and damaging livelihoods" it adds. "In Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 45

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. “There is a yawning gap between the marketing claims of fossil fuel companies and the reality of their businesses,” said Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 61

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But it’s also made social equity a centerpiece of its efforts, from made-in-America pledges to boost jobs to commitments to focus investments in low-income and minority communities suffering the most health and economic damage from industrial pollution and global warming. The Washington D.C.-based

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The UK, the EU, France, Germany, the US, Italy, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Denmark have all backed the plan, which mirrors similar agreements reached with Indonesia and South Africa. A global clean tech race has started. That is what we wanted, that is what we need.

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Energy Energy Packaging Investment 71

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 77

Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations' Glasgow Climate Summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon Europe 43

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

"Today's stark report from the IPCC is a reminder to the world about how climate change is affecting our planet, underlining that we need to go further and faster to adapt and generate more clean power to reduce countries' exposure to expensive global gas prices, embracing the commitments of the Glasgow Climate Pact. "We

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Climate change Resilience Fossil fuels Government 67

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Bringing an end to the burning of coal for energy is one of the single biggest priorities if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century, and has been one of the UK's top priorities in its role as host of COP26.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Climate change Global warming 79

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Planet Earth is facing a "ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health, and climate-disruption upheavals" thanks to a broad failure to grasp the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises that could genuinely threaten human survival. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Biodiversity Politics Climate change Global warming 67