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Gas sensor network provides early wildfire detection

Envirotec Magazine

In June 2021, Dryad was named as a cool vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in IoT Thingification report. The firm says it is now gearing up to secure Series A funding, spurred on by being named as a finalist in Greenbackers’ 26 for COP 26 program, which connects startups with climate-focused investors.

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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

Business Green

Biodiversity. Conference of the Parties (COP). COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Industrial chemicals, mainly used for cooling and refrigeration, which are potent greenhouse gases and contributing to climate change. Black carbon. Energy transition.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems.

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How tiny pieces of evidence can reveal giant stories about our world — and ways to make it better

Grist

“For me, intellectually, that always felt like a little bit of a cop-out,” said Jesse Nichols, a video producer at Grist. “All of these world history events were visible inside the skeleton of a coral, and I thought it was so cool that scientists could tell such big stories from such tiny pieces of evidence.”

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. It ended without much of a story, with the parties being called to the COP the following year. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5 ” A year later came COP16 in Cancún. However, the exact 1.5°C

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media.

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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability

Andrew Winston

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more.