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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

This is a key finding of a new scientific report, “The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: 5 Opportunities for Action” , published on 23 September at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York. Global action to address the state of the ocean has never been more urgent. GtCO2e each year by 2050.

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In the Louisiana Bayou, Dolphin Victims of Hurricane Ida Set the Stage for a Political Fight Over Coastal Restoration

DeSmogBlog

Losing land at an alarming rate , Louisiana is one of the states most threatened by the impacts of climate change in the U.S. Nungesser, who is in charge of Louisiana’s seafood promotion board, has made opposing the massive river diversion projects central to his likely run for governor in 2023.

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What Difference Can I Make In The Climate Crisis?

Energy Innovation

After another year of climate extremes, it’s little surprise that abnormal weather and climate change are a central focus of the summit. Structural change through policies and governance is necessary to solve the climate crisis at the speed and scale required. Examples of key choices within each are represented.”

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DeSmog Launches Industrial Aquaculture Project

DeSmogBlog

At first glance, fish might seem like a climate-friendly alternative to meat for a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle. At least the seafood farming (or ‘aquaculture’) industry would have you see it that way. Right now the market for farmed fish like salmon is booming.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. Leveraging Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning to Create Sustainable Fisheries (Panel Discussion): Global consumption of fish and seafood has more than doubled in recent decades, but more than a third of the world’s assessed fisheries are thought to be overexploited.

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August 2020 Cleantech Roundup: EV Charging Investments | Why Were Californians in the Dark?

Clean Energy Trust

Because they don’t want natural gas to be portrayed as an uncontrolled climate change problem?—?they political roadblocks are more significant. Link Chicago based S2G Ventures , a food and ag focused firm, announced a new $100 million fund focused on seafood and other ocean startups. a rolling fund structure.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.