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Eating away our food: ocean acidification is impacting Southeast Asia's fisheries

Eco-Business

Ocean acidification, the “evil twin” of global warming, presents a stern challenge to food security, particularly for Southeast Asians.

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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

In Asia, the difference was even starker: 87 percent of companies are polluting faster than they did in the seven years before Paris. Only in North America were a slim minority of carbon majors — 16 of 37 — linked to rising emissions.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification. Instead, she co-founded her own venture. .

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe. A systematic review based on multiple studies concluded that emissions “differ considerably per diet, with a vegan diet having the lowest CO2eq production per 2000 kcal consumed.”

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification. Instead, she co-founded her own venture.

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

Business Green

COP26 President Alok Sharma has hinted that a coalition of industrialised nations is exploring how to introduce new multi-billion dollar green funding packages to emerging economies in Asia building on the just transition deal agreed with South Africa at the COP26 Climate Summit last year. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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