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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Whether these write-downs were accelerated significantly by Covid-19 or simply part of a longer ongoing trend, they clearly demonstrated that the risks posed by climate change and the net zero transition are now firmly on the radar of some of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.