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How the world's largest seafood companies can help tackle climate change

Business Green

Seafood firms can reduce their impact on climate and the oceans - and in doing so can ensure they have a long-term thriving business that delivers healthy and sustainable seafood to millions, writes Nigel Topping, UN High Level Champion for Climate Action at COP26. Seafood is big business and demand is going up.

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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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Ocean Conservation: Ocean Acidification and the Impacts of Fish Migration

Green Tech Challenge

Aquaculture and Ocean Acidification When mixed with seawater, carbon dioxide produces an acid which corrodes calcium, making shell formation and bone growth particularly difficult. The Paris Climate Agreement seeks to restrict global warming to 1.5 Of these foreign landings, 12 were from tropical or subtropical regions.

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5 Diet Tips For A Healthy Planet

Green Living Guy

The delicate balance upholding all life on Earth is in danger, and to prevent the worse from befalling all living creatures, there’s the need for major changes. Some of these changes will even affect our choice of food because as more people become conscious of the effects of human activity on the planet, they’ll begin asking more questions.

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Habits of Waste unveils free app to help you be an imperfect vegan

AGreenLiving

Sometimes, we lose sight of that when we’re feeling hopeless about the state of pollution, global warming, climate change , deforestation, etc. The app tracks each vegan meal you eat per week, totaling up the amount of emissions you have saved by nixing meat, seafood and dairy.

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Biden’s Call to Increase LNG Export Capacity on Gulf Coast is Tantamount To Sarah Palin’s Call to ‘Drill Baby Drill’ According to Environmental Advocates

DeSmogBlog

million tons of carbon dioxide a year, two known carcinogens, and other emissions that are harmful to the environment, including particulates and oxides of nitrogen. Anne Rolfes, founder of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade questioned what the project would do to the seafood industry. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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The results are in from the Arctic’s annual checkup

Grist

The permafrost continues to thaw, potentially releasing up to 600 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And some fish populations in the Bering Sea, which supplies about 40 percent of the American seafood catch, have begun to migrate north as waters warm, threatening food webs.