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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. billion people by 2050.

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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Report: Firms must boost investment in tropical forests to keep 1.5C on track

Business Green

global warming threshold established by the Paris Agreement without ending deforestation this decade, underscoring the urgent need for companies to explicitly add forest protection investments to their net zero strategies. There are no credible trajectories for staying within the totemic 1.5C

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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

Business Green

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Biodiversity. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. Black carbon.

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Report: Firms must invest in tropical forests to keep 1.5C on track

Business Green

global warming threshold of the Paris Agreement without ending deforestation this decade, underscoring the urgent need for companies to explicitly add forest protection investments to their net zero strategies. There are no credible trajectories for staying within the totemic 1.5C

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million b/d in 1986. 6) Oh yes. “The