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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 A lack of pollution monitoring stations has meant a shortfall of data on local, national, regional and global PM 2.5 In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 µg/m 3 ) and Southern Asia (37.2

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Clean cooking: Gold Standard verifies world's first clean cooking carbon credits in Africa

Business Green

UpEnergy said the sale of the credits provide an opportunity for African consumers with access to electricity to abandon the burning of unsustainable and polluting wood-based fuels and switch to zero-emission cooking. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. With these permit exemptions, Nopetro LNG and Venture Global avoided lengthy environmental reviews to begin building two polluting facilities as fast as possible near Black communities in the Gulf of Mexico. But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Buys Goodwill

DeSmogBlog

Sports also carries perceptions and feelings of vigor, health, and youth, he says, one reason why the tobacco industry was also so keen to sponsor sports. Fossil fuel sponsorships are often attempts by companies “to rebuild trust following an accident or opposition,” according to ArtWash author Evans.

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

Business Green

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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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

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 The threats and impacts are myriad, interlinked, and deeply worrying.

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Net Zero Nature: Can business and nature join forces in the climate fight?

Business Green

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. The frustrating thing for us is there is no need for this deforestation or climate pollution. There are 1.6