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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits. The Holocene.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health. This knowledge is essential, though, to making daily health decisions and strengthening community climate resilience.

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To Meet Sustainability Goals, Food Companies Need To Slash Methane

EDF + Business

Katie Anderson, Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forests. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term. Methane is indirectly affecting agricultural productivity through climate change and ozone pollution , which is known to harm ecosystems and plants.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting to do so," as one recent Heartland document succinctly put it. More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco. Risk & Resilience. Disaster Recovery.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity

Unsustainable

Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth. The nine PBs regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions. 2009; Steffen, W.,