Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

Monitoring carbon stocks and emissions is critical to mitigating climate change, providing insight and accountability into the effectiveness of carbon drawdown strategies like tree planting and avoiding deforestation.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Around the world, leaves play a critical central role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

More than 38,000 trees across hundreds of English Heritage estates and historic sites are to be digitally managed using software designed to help the charity more accurately assess threats or damage to woodland and better sustain wildlife and biodiversity on its land.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. This would worsen climate change and biodiversity loss and lead to a new wave of land-grabbing likely accompanied by human rights abuses and loss of food sovereignty in the Global South.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. The stress there is growing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In addition to revealing a litany of human rights abuses at the East New Britain Resources Group, the Rimbunan Hijau Group, and Bewani Oil Palm Plantations Ltd, the investigation found all three companies were involved in the destruction of tropical rainforests that provide a vital defence against climate change and are a hotbed for biodiversity.

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Grist

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Last month, millions of youth activists around the world took to the streets to fight for their right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and not have to suffer the wrath of the climate crisis. But that’s not the only way kids are taking climate action into their own hands. Yes, you heard that right.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. The stress there is growing.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. That is a land size equivalent to 10.3 million American gridiron football fields or 8.4 million soccer fields.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Reforestation has thereby become an important tool in combatting Earth’s climate emergency. Why has reforestation become important in recent years? Flood risks are alleviated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

"We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. The reason, simply, is that we cannot tackle climate change without also tackling environmental destruction, and vice versa.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., The signatory scientists urge countries to stop relying on biomass given that it destroys forests, endangers wildlife, and accelerates climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

A 2021 study from the European Academies Science Advisory Council concluded that burning wood for energy “is not effective in mitigating climate change and may even increase the risk of dangerous climate change.” Logging and road building in any kind of primary forests is associated with increasing fire risk,” she said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

But the practice is highly controversial due to the damage it causes to some of the UK's most biodiverse habitats, which double as huge natural stores of carbon that could help the UK meet its climate goals. The government's own advisors say we need to restore all upland peatlands to meet climate targets.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Biodiversity and abundant water are crucial to the stability of local ecosystems , regulating climate variability and governing global water cycles. They contaminate water supplies, build giant hydroelectric dams, scar the landscape with open-pit mines and log indiscriminately. On the minus side: humans.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Leading forest researchers from around the world call for a global forest observatory to provide much-needed data on the current and future ability of our trees to absorb and store carbon, produce multiple goods and benefit for people, and support biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? To get to net zero, we need to invest in nature-based solutions to climate change," Cartwright points out.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

The world lost a football pitch of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest every six seconds through the course of 2019, as almost 120,000 square kilometres were destroyed - an area larger than Cuba, Portugal, or Austria - principally to make way for the production of agricultural commodities.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Under Lula's previous terms in office, Amazon deforestation rates plummeted 80 per cent, but the trend reversed under the tumultuous presidency of Bolsonaro, whose support for farming and logging interest saw illegal destruction of the rainforest soar to record levels. We want environmental pacification.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.".

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What provides habitat for half the world’s known plants and animals, is a vital component of biodiversity and an important economic crop? Logging, invasive pests, disease, forest clearance and other types of habitat loss all threaten tree species. Nor is climate change helping.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He proposed establishing a world alliance for food security targeted at ending hunger and building a more sustainable food system to combat climate change, and demanded that richer nations deliver on their collective commitment to provide $100bn in climate finance a year to developing nations.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

As countries try to meet their climate change goals and businesses look to cancel out their carbon dioxide emissions, almost 2 billion trees are being planted every year. Trees lock away carbon in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots, making them an excellent partner in countering climate change.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 20, 2022

We are in a planetary crisis, with biodiversity loss, ecocide, and climate change urgently requiring greater action. or “how many trees have been felled by logging in the Amazon last month?” or “what is the carbon and biodiversity value of this land?” Planet’s Second Decade. But we need to do far more.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Put in place by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2005, it works by giving financial value to emission reductions from avoided deforestation. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. The results are encouraging.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

My entire life, it was clear to me without a doubt that climate change is the issue that trumps all other issues.”. Seed the North will collect seeds, combine them in biodiverse seedpods, and drop them using drone technology over thousands of acres. The property was heavily logged by the previous owner.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Her conclusion follows a new global study that finds the potential for natural forest regrowth to absorb atmospheric carbon and fight climate change has been seriously underestimated. s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are on average 32 percent too low, a figures that rises to 53 percent for tropical forests.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. That said, the study does not factor economics, deployment scale, or biodiversity impacts into its scenarios or discussion. Source: Field et al.

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