Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The health of human beings depends on the state of the environment as well. The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. billion tons per year.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. People have altered 70 percent of Earth’s lands from their natural state and degraded up to 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Our climate, health and development goals remain unachievable as long as we are still produc- ing fossil fuels,” said McGivern. It’s simply not true that to stop global warming we have to stop using fossil fuels: what we have to do is stop dumping the carbon dioxide they generate into the atmosphere.” “All

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The report, the sixth edition produced by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), is said to provide the most detailed scientific picture to date of the toll elevated temperatures have taken on the world’s reefs. This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. gigatons of CO₂ annually, the researchers found. degrees Celsius (2.7

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

More so, felling trees for farming doesn’t just decimate habitats but propels global warming as carbon dioxide-absorbing trees vanish, thereby inflating the carbon trail of farming. Regenerative agriculture is another pillar, emphasizing soil health and biodiversity restoration.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

Our results spell problems for the health and diversity of future regional forests,” University of Michigan forest ecologist Peter Reich, who led the study, told the University of Michigan news office. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. The good news?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen. Sir David Attenborough said: "The survival of the natural world depends on maintaining its complexity, its biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

UK Health Alliance on Climate Change sets out sweeping proposals to boost demand for low emission foods, including plans for a new food carbon tax. Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, ambassador for the Alliance, said it was vital that food and diets are considered as part of both the health and climate policy agendas.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. It could also worsen the impacts of flooding and undermine public health and wellbeing. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. If we manage to take advantage of the momentum spurred by this global public health emergency to build back better, we can prepare our cities for a warmer future and create healthy living spaces where people and biodiversity can thrive. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And while more than 15 million people live around the Irish Sea and many more visit for holidays, only a small percentage of them realise what wildlife lives there and just how important it is for biodiversity and the environment. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. The Irish Sea is about to get much busier.

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Fairsnape

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet carbon is not the only issue for the airlines, it is socially unjust (with only some 15% of the population flying regularly) and the other greenhouse gasses such as NOx do damage to health and environment at point of emission – something that cannot be offset. And a major contributor are emails.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 8, 2019

At the time of writing some 370 UK architect practices have signed up to Architects Declare, a declaration that acknowledges we are in a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. Establish climate and biodiversity mitigation principles as the key measure of our industry’s success: demonstrated through awards, prizes and listings.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. gigatons of CO₂ annually, the researchers found. degrees Celsius (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C ” “Global warming of 1.5°C The planet has warmed at an unprecedented rate, the IPCC report states. ” António Guterres, secretary-general of the U.N.,

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

The coalition is promoting actions against biodiversity loss and hopes that the pledge will lead to a successful conservation agreement during the Cop15 2021 summit in China. “Increasing funds to protect and enhance nature is critical to help secure success at the global biodiversity conference in China this year,” Newsom said.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity. Simon Weppe, science lead at The Ocean Race said: “Climate change and plastic pollution have, in mere decades, caused a drastic decline in the health of the ocean. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The primary goal of regenerative agriculture is to enhance and retain the biodiversity in soil that has been continuously stripped for generations. Desertification, erosion, flooding and wildfires are other indicators of poor soil health. It’s a general term that encompasses a range of practices from composting to pasture cropping.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Polls indicate that extreme weather is helping Americans to accept the veracity of global warming. CLIMATE CHANGE AND COVID-19 A warming world threatens to unleash a host of diseases and other threats to human health. Climate change kills forests , animals and the full spectrum of biodiversity including humans.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

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. cropland and help the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. Without the necessary carbon storage from forest trees, global temperatures will continue to rise and intensify consequent climate change damage. ” This illustrates how substantial tree decline due to insects can be. .”

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” David McNew / Getty Images.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Covering 71 per cent of our planet's surface, oceans are both vital to sustaining human and natural life on Earth and a key part of tackling the dual crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss. But the health of our oceans, and the industries reliant on them, are under serious threat. °C and beyond.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Indeed, the report states that global GDP would be only a few percentage points lower in 2050 if the world takes requisite action to limit global warming to 2C, compared to maintaining current policies, which could put the planet on a pathway to more than 3C by the end of the century. This offers significant untapped potential.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

And, of course, fungi threaten humans, too — not just by decimating the biodiversity of the world around us, but also by infiltrating our bodies and causing new illnesses. But as global temperatures have risen over the decades, the fungus may have evolved to adapt to a warmer climate. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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