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Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops

Grist

Researchers say political stability in rainforest countries plays a major role in ensuring forest protection, which could go a long way towards increasing forest resilience to catastrophic outcomes. In July of this year, deforestation in the Amazon fell by 66 percent, hitting a six-year low.

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'We will not fight climate change with a virus': UN chief warns both climate and coronavirus emergencies 'must be defeated'

Business Green

The world may be on the cusp of a global pandemic, but the scale of the climate crisis presents a greater long term threat and political and business leaders should not be "diverted away from climate action" as they seek to contain the worsening outbreak.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. That's the future our children have to contemplate. And it gets worse.

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We want to deliver a green recovery in partnership with business and finance

Business Green

I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience. clean transport.

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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

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. 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.

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Climate migration is part of our future. Is it a problem or a solution?

Grist

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. Even without political barriers, it’s a costly, destabilizing experience.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.