Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2024

Understanding why climate change might contribute to increasing plastic pollution is the focus of a new research project starting this month at the University of Portsmouth. As far as we know this is the first time this has been looked at in conjunction with climate change.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. In general, there is a lot of dynamism and innovation in this sector, and that is a good thing," said Torsten Pohl, head of the Nestlé Product Technology Center in Singen, Germany, via email.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene. The Nine Planetary Boundaries.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The world relies on the ocean for survival, and its human inhabitants all participate in at least one daily activity, which affects the ocean ecosystem. We are all stakeholders of the ocean, participating in activities which either support, or disrupt ocean conservation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues. Whilst the worst impacts of climate change are foreseen in the coming decades, I would argue that for some aspects of nature loss, they're already here.".

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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Grist

APRIL 13, 2022

While reefs are suffering because of a variety of factors — overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification among them — it’s widespread warming that is causing the most concern, as sea surface temperatures have slowly ticked up over the last 100 years. Over half of the world’s coral reefs have already been lost.

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