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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

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This “vicious cycle” of pesticide use fueling climate change, and vice versa, is examined in a report published Tuesday by the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). Pesticide companies are complicit in the climate crisis, and further the agricultural sector’s dependency on fossil fuels.”.

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Shopify orders up latest carbon removal deals

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Shopify and Stripe announce latest $11m investment round through Frontier negative emissions fund. Ecommerce tech giants Shopify and Stripe have announced the latest round of investment as part of the Frontier negative emissions technology initiative, securing $11m worth of carbon removal credits through six new deals.

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How limited is the planet's capacity for supplying 'sustainable' biomass and biofuel?

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The new ETC analysis, released yesterday , sets out how rapidly increasing demand for bioresources from the manufacturing, construction, and energy industries could outstrip environmentally sustainable supplies unless alternative zero carbon options are rapidly scaled up and the use of biomass is carefully prioritised.

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Removing CO2: Is the UK's vision for a thriving carbon removals market starting to take shape?

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Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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'A prime example of doublethink': How surging demand for land-based CO2 offsets could threaten global food security

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Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. Too many companies and governments are hiding behind the smokescreen of net zero to continue dirty business-as-usual activities," he said. "A

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

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The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

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Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million