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Study: Fertiliser use threatens global climate goals as nitrous oxide emissions soar

Business Green

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

Business Green

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.

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For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

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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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

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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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

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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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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

Business Green

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".