Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Recent times too, have seen information become increasingly accessible, raising awareness on the need for local communities to sustain their mangrove forests. Community-led Partnerships Community-led partnerships emphasize restoring depleted forests for sustainable use. Gazi Bay Community’s Information Wall. Source: GRID-Arendal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In contrast, if we don’t limit global warming to below 2°C, 5 million fewer energy jobs will be created. Such cuts will necessitate a greater reliance on sustainable energy sources. In 2020, renewables and nuclear energy supplied less than a quarter of global energy, according to BP’s 2021 report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Indonesia this number drops to nine per cent; in South Africa six per cent; and in India as low as five per cent. With global warming making some regions uninhabitable during the hot season - particularly for vulnerable populations of elderly citizens and those with chronic diseases - cooling solutions will become essential.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

Sharma is in Washington DC to attend the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF where he will attend a series of meetings with finance ministers, including from India, Indonesia, and South Africa, heads of MDBs, and US Climate Envoy John Kerry. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It underlines that, while the severity varies significantly across countries and climate scenarios, worst impacted will be developing countries along the equator that have contributed the least to the current state of global warming and which often rely on reef tourism and fish stocks to sustain local livelihoods and ensure food security.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The announcement came as the retailer unveiled an expanded partnership with the Fairtrade Foundation and Fairtrade Africa aimed at supporting communities vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change in its supply chain. Chris Oluoch, programmes director of Fairtrade Africa, welcomed its expanded partnership with the retailer. "Co-op

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But global warming might be the death of it. According to the report, the global temperature is likely to rise above the 1.5 Related: 12 sustainable, Indigenous-owned brands to support Rock art sites are found around the world and consist of paintings, engravings, drawings, stencils, prints and carvings.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C Professor Dr Johan Rockström, Potsdam University – specialises in environmental science with an emphasis on water resources and global sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The review itself also pledged to "lead sustained international action to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050 and build global climate resilience, starting with our presidency of COP26 in 2021 and our International Climate Finance commitment of £11.6bn". "The

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 There is substantial uncertainty as to whether these largely unproven technologies can be deployed as quickly, and at the scale required, and just how sustainable they are,” Price continued.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA files also namecheck influential pro-meat individuals such as author and podcaster Diana Rodgers, who has been referenced by the Global Meat Alliance in a previous campaign, which targeted the UN Food System Summit. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

billion people living in such environments within 30 years and our current cities emitting 50-60 per cent of global greenhouse gases (GHGs), a sustainable future is impossible without significantly transforming how we build and manage urban spaces. Peter Michaelis is head of Liontrust's sustainable investment team. With some 6.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enhancing access to affordable, high-performing, and inclusive appliances that can be powered by renewable energy sources offers a low carbon pathway to sustainable development. New skills and an expanded workforce will be needed to deliver this clean energy transition and improve access to renewable and solar-powered alliances.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study shows how the G20 is responsible for around 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that were G20 nations to align their official national climate action plans - or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - with a 1.5C pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

Primarily, they are centered in parts of Africa, parts of India, Pakistan and regions in Asia – and most of them are centered in rural areas. In Africa , for example, the national electrification rate is 45%. It is, however, also very dependent on the burning on fossil fuels, which contributes to global warming and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. Measuring emissions is critical to enabling the sustainability revolution and we’re thrilled to have Bloomberg as a core partner.” within reach.”

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

It has also prompted fears that the rise in oil and gas revenues could make it harder to wean the world of fossil fuels, despite the International Energy Agency's (IEA) clear conclusion last year that no new fossil fuel exploration projects should proceed if the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are to be kept alive.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

These are regions in which fishing is the main source of income; regions which sell fishing licences to sustain their economies. A study conducted in 2016, reveals an 80-95% rate of failure in feeding dives by seabirds along the southwest coast of Africa. The Paris Climate Agreement seeks to restrict global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Deforestation and fires have soared in the Amazon Rainforest in recent years, while huge global demand for products such as palm oil, soy, and timber is also driving destruction of critical forests in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the permafrost that Kivalina sits on and that forms the banks of the river that sustains their community is melting and eroding into the water, threatening their drinking water treatment system and creating potential health problems. He would break new ground, and he might lose, but he keeps trying again,” Nader said. “It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

It is up to all of us to sustain our lodestar of keeping 1.5 But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 Of course global politics shape these summits, but the Prime Minister has hindered not helped.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

But we've also seen pictures of lions and elephants enjoying the warmth of unused tarmac roads in South Africa's Kruger National park, watched clips of curious deer wandering suburban streets, and heard that giant pandas in Hong Kong's zoo have rediscovered passion for one another in the absence of their usual visitors.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rodrigo Constantino, another founder, columnist at Gazeta do Povo , and president of the libertarian Instituto Liberal, has accused scientists of deceptively using the term “climate change”, rather than “global warming”, in order to blame all extreme weather events on the phenomenon.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Courtesy of CAUSE.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5

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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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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

And bioenergy also has a key role to play in decarbonising aviation and shipping, with sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) needing to account for 18 per cent of aircraft fuel by the end of the decade, according to the analysis. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

WWF's global deputy lead Vanessa Perez-Cirera welcomed a new reference to nature's key role in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal. The science is clear, there is no viable route to limiting global warming to 1.5C without nature," she said. "It It is vital that parties ensure this language remains in the final text.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. The technology-focused “sustainable farming” partnership, which is led by the UAE and U.S., This year will be different.

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