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The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry

DeSmogBlog

Britain is facing calls to impose import controls on China after an investigation revealed that supermarkets are sourcing seafood from companies exploiting forced labour by minority Uyghurs. With its domestic fishing industry in long-term decline , the UK imports more than 80 percent of its seafood.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. ” Here are a few other recent examples of the financial industry walking the walk in the name of biodiversity. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

“They think that building a levee is going to protect them from rising seawater. One of many concerning possibilities is that rising groundwater will mobilize contaminants that have been lurking in the soil for years, left behind by industrial and military sites, and allow them to spread, unnoticed, beneath our feet.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Walker explained in an email that they were “required to limit the number of attendees to maintain safety protocols on an active construction site.” I saw a few construction vehicles that served as a backdrop to the makeshift stage where speakers, including Louisiana’s Gov.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Allaire spent more than three decades as an environmental engineer in the oil industry, working for Amoco and then BP, after the two companies merged in the late 1990s. Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. “I had a house right over here.

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Climate Tech VC

Deals of the Week (10/8-10/15) Venture Fundings 🔋 Skeleton Technologies , a Tallinn, Estonia-based graphene-based supercapacitor and battery energy storage developer, raised $113M in Corporate funding from Siemens Financial Services and Marubeni.  💼 Find or share roles on our job board here.