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.”. This threatens “many species on Earth, including our own,” the report warns. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Last week’s BBC headline is the kind that’s guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of food corporations, which are increasingly under pressure to cut pollution, just like the fossil fuel industry. of global warming. That means: reasonable, strong and very short term targets for cutting pollution.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2022

The rising acidity of the ocean is not only harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems, but is impacting human industries that rely on the ocean’s resources. Read more about how to reduce your carbon footprint in our article, “ Is It Possible to Prevent Global Warming? ”. Use natural fertilizers and pesticides.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. The report also claims freshwater species populations have seen the greatest overall global decline, at 83%. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Ocean acidification, global warming, pollution: the causes of these threats are many and particularly difficult to address, insofar as they are extremely diffuse, and result from our entire development paradigm. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. The Irish Sea will also be affected by global warming. Oceans store 20-35 per cent of human-made carbon emissions.

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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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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In the last 5 years, there has been a 71% increase in searches for sustainable goods, as many consumers now value biodiversity and sustainability when making purchases. Our desire to live green lifestyles has skyrocketed in the past decade. This trend towards sustainable living is also evident in the way we run our homes.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues. It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). And temperatures will continue to rise. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine showed the real dangers of relying on brutal polluting petrostates for energy, and climate impacts became tragically ever more present across the world. The Global Warming Policy Foundation was another much-visited profile, along with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group and Institute of Economic Affairs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Adani Group has faced opposition in India for its coal extraction and pollution, and protests over its Carmichael coal mine in Australia. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. President of the upcoming COP26 summit, Alok Sharma, has said he wanted to use the summit to “consign coal to history”. .”

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

An example of this is the infamous Volkswagen scandal , when Volkswagen sold a line of diesal engines as the most environmentally friendly ever, when they were in fact so off the charts bad they were 400x over the legal limit for pollution. degree global warming limit enshrined in the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, overall the report demonstrates that limiting global warming to the 1.5C goal in the Paris Agreement requires a major and rapid transformation of the global food system right across the value chain. But a better future is possible.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. It’s an unprecedented degree of detail for a global biodiversity model.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In a press release, researchers explained the study’s methodology, saying, “The research involved keeping hermit crabs in two tanks: one which contained polyethylene spheres (a common microplastic pollutant ) and one without plastic (control) for five days. Via Newswise Lead image via Pixabay. See the original post:Â .

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Microplastics Global warming Plastics Pollution 28

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Accelerator program will give public and private sector leaders the information they need to take action and reduce methane pollution, starting right away.”. ” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Methane Climate change Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 107

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Pacala’s team included approaches that in their judgment would not adversely affect food availability nor biodiversity but could utilize current or near-term technology and cost less than or equal to $100/tCO 2. C by 2100 pushing global temperature over 2°C. References.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EU carbon prices have yet again sent records tumbling, reaching an all-time high of over €80 per tonne of CO2 this week, as the cost of polluting continues to get ever more expensive. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears. China tables five-year green industry plan.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Biosphere (biodiversity) integrity: infinite human activities affecting eco-systems risk disintegration of natural biodiversity.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Global warming Climate change Resilience South America 101

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

As a food company, for instance, moves to cut its carbon pollution to avert the serve risks to its resources and assets from a heating planet, that will impact how the farmers it buys from grow their crops, the distribution companies it uses to transport its goods power their fleets, and what ends up on supermarket shelves.

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Fossil fuels Investment Biodiversity Policy 38

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. Looking back with regret.

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Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 511

Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

For the longest time, mangrove resources have been used primarily for wood harvesting, barely taking into account the important role they play in biodiversity and shoreline protection. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. 5 Gyres 5 Gyres was founded by a couple who met on a sailing expedition to research pollution in the North Pacific Gyre. but has recently expanded to the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the letter Versey stressed that the company wanted to see firms step up action on biodiversity and human rights, as well as climate change. "We Our letter sets out clear expectations as to how they should do this, and what those plans must address across climate impact, biodiversity and human rights.".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The offshore blocks where Equinor and others want to drill also overlap with an area rich in biodiversity that serves as the feeding grounds and migration corridors for a long list of marine animals, including dolphins, penguins, turtles, and birds.

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