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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

Business Green

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. The idea behind Earth Day originated in California in 1969. The Western U.S.

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Global Briefing: Triptych of alarming reports offer stark update on scale of climate and biodiversity crisis

Business Green

Stark warnings issued over record greenhouse gas emissions and escalating biodiversity threats. A triptych of sobering new reports have this week highlighted the scale of the climate and biodiversity crises engulfing the world. It's going to change allocation of capital. Saudi Arabia unveils plans for major solar investment drive.

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Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.

Grist

Want to do something good for the Earth? This common belief, once an inspiration for Earth Day T-shirts, now forms the basis of a booming global industry. Pearce pointed out that Europe has a third more trees now than it did in 1900, mostly a result of natural regrowth. Plant a tree. When tree planting goes wrong.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Meg Wilcox.