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Nature-based solutions key to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss, says Lords

Envirotec Magazine

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26, citing recent evidence gathered as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into nature-based solutions for climate change.

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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Addressing Inequities In The Mental Health Burden Of Climate Change

Energy Innovation

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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104,000 panel solar farm set to power The University of Manchester

Envirotec Magazine

With enhancements to the existing hedgerows and planting of native grassland and wildflower meadow beneath and around the solar arrays, the site will encourage nesting opportunities for wildlife and improved habitat connectivity. This includes the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change , which helped create the University’s Zero Carbon Goal.

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New California Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Early Action

Energy Innovation

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. This modeling showed the state is off track for its 2030 and 2045 climate goals, and must triple its historic emissions reduction pace.

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Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study

Envirotec Magazine

Co-author Ganlin Zhang, of the Institute of Soil Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, China, added: “We can see the effects of those changes in faster rates of erosion that drive soil degradation, for example, or through the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

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Major banks are setting climate targets. What the agricultural finance sector needs to know.

EDF + Business

They join a growing movement of companies throughout the agricultural supply chain to set ambitious targets to reach net zero by 2050 to prevent the most severe impacts from climate change. Farmers around the world are served by an array of different financial institutions, including cooperatives and community banks.