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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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

global warming threshold established by the Paris Agreement without ending deforestation this decade, underscoring the urgent need for companies to explicitly add forest protection investments to their net zero strategies. There are no credible trajectories for staying within the totemic 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Biodiversity. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. Black carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

global warming threshold of the Paris Agreement without ending deforestation this decade, underscoring the urgent need for companies to explicitly add forest protection investments to their net zero strategies. There are no credible trajectories for staying within the totemic 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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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. References Rockström, J.,

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2021

Referring to an RTÉ report earlier this month on the extreme heatwave experienced on the US west coast and Canada, Thorne said he was “bitterly disappointed” not to see any mention of climate change, telling the broadcaster to “do better at joining the dots”. per cent relating to climate change. C**k-Up, not Conspiracy’.

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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. References. Global warming of 1.5 First, P.J.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

But how do these land use changes impact agriculture, biodiversity, and other considerations? References. All these scenarios significantly increase land set aside for bioenergy compared to present day, ranging from about 3 to 7 million km 2. The extent to which carbon emissions remain determines the need for increased NET approaches.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

and refers to extreme cases that do not represent current practice.” The first is referred to both by Garson and by one of De Decker’s critics: “Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal.” REFERENCES. Carbon Debt.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

"We recall our collective commitment to hold the global average temperature increase well below 2C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C are much lower than at 2C," states. The group called for action on habitat loss, land degradation, marine plastic litter, sustainable water management and ocean health.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

Within 48 hours of the IEA report, the G7 countries vowed to stop new financing for overseas coal projects and to make "accelerated efforts" to limit global warming to 1.5 For reference, a petawatt-hour is equal to 1 million megawatt-hours.). They're aligning a sizable chunk of their investments with that reality.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nor did they appear at the same time, nor has the same language always been used to refer to them, as will be seen below. We have to go back to the last century to find the first references to 2°C. In it, they identify “two absolute temperature targets for committed warming.” The Scientific Origins of 2°C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Greenhouse gases from just the global food system alone could blow a hole in the world's chances of meeting Paris Agreement goals, even if all other major sources of fossil fuel emissions were ceased immediately, according to new scientific research led by the University of Oxford today. IKEA opens second-hand furniture store in Sweden.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? warming between 2030 and 2052. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ever-increasing ambition is now, more firmly than ever, baked into the global climate policy regime. Most countries around the world, even the most advanced economies, are poorly prepared for the worsening impacts of a warming planet and volatile weather patterns, and creaking infrastructure and livelihoods are paying the price.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

Within 48 hours of the IEA report, the G7 countries vowed to stop new financing for overseas coal projects and to make “accelerated efforts” to limit global warming to 1.5 For reference, a petawatt-hour is equal to 1 million megawatt-hours.) financial system. A report released last month by the U.K. ” Wow.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Burning coal is the most polluting way to generate electricity and probably the best way to quickly destroy the world (global warming, anyone?). Those of you who are still not convinced and fear biodiversity issues, I have something even better on offer. This is dumb. All we need to do is do it.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

But Trump used his speech in Davos today to rail against what he termed "prophets of doom" in a thinly-veiled attack on those pushing for more ambitious efforts to tackle climate change and boost biodiversity, although he did not directly reference climate change nor global warming. "To

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

While Moomaw lauds intensifying efforts to plant billions of young trees, he says that preserving existing mature forests will have an even more profound effect on slowing global warming in the coming decades, since immature trees sequester far less CO2 than older ones. And, by the way, which biodiversity are we shortest of?

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.) That said, the study does not factor economics, deployment scale, or biodiversity impacts into its scenarios or discussion. C scenarios according to the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C Field, J.L.,

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 26, 2019

It is also one of the richest areas of biodiversity on Earth. For these reasons the Amazon fires have been referred to in ominous headlines. The Economist called it a "forest apocalypse", Futurism referred to "Hell World" and Business Insider cited a "doomsday scenerio".

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It is a modern form of dowsing for highly educated people, who never cross-reference actual findings with their past predictions. Though I still fundamentally believe biomass is better than regular fossil fuels, biodiversity and human rights issues are serious challenges when it comes to the production of biomass. But it’s not enough.”

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