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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

AGreenLiving

One Tree partnered with Kula Project to train local farmers in agronomy, technical skills and sustainable practices. Once the coffee Arabica seedlings mature, they should provide a sustainable income for up to three decades. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030.

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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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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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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America.

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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

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk.

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

Business Green

Thanks to dire warnings from scientists and economists alike, there is growing understanding that nature loss, climate change, and other sustainability priorities, such as social inequalities, need to be tackled together to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), she tells BusinessGreen.