The City Fix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, less than 1% is generated by low-income countries in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Over 50% of all transport-related emissions come from high-income countries, where people are more likely to own and depend on personal vehicles. In these.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent study Nature Climate Change has concluded that climate change is already affecting people across the world. The study found that at least 85% of the world’s population has already been affected by climate change in some way. Nature Climate Change Via The Revelator Lead image via Pixabay.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Enhancing the ocean’s ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change, according to a new research paper, published on 21 December in the journal Joule. At present, around 25% of all CO2 emitted to the air is absorbed by the oceans.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Speaking at the launch of the report yesterday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres rejected suggestions the escalating coronavirus outbreak could provide a silver lining for the climate in the form of lower greenhouse gas emissions this year. "We

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at around 10 million hectares every year.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

The planet’s weather over the past three years has been dominated by El Niño’s opposite extreme, La Niña, which has had a cooling effect on the globe despite the warming effects of climate change. Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. trillion and $5.7

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The City Fix

APRIL 27, 2023

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In its recent report to the UK Parliament, the Climate Change Committee noted that the UK has lost its global leadership position on climate action. It has been slow to react to the U.S.’ Inflation Reduction Act as well as the EU’s proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 23, 2020

The new partnership will result in the monitoring of forests across North and South America, and will scale to increase the transparency and accountability of carbon markets worldwide. Pachama and Planet have a shared mission to protect and restore the world’s forests. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Its findings have important implications for increasing agricultural output and analyzing climate change mitigation costs and benefits around the world. North and South America generally had the lowest NOx exposures.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. The species is now nearly impossible to find, he said, a shift that is likely not attributable to climate change.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2021

About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, the drillship Stena Carron spent Saturday, June 5 drilling a new exploratory well on behalf of ExxonMobil. Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

The world is in a ‘make or break’ decade for climate action, and it is against this backdrop that the wind sector is intensifying its call for urgent climate action leading up to COP26 in November. billion tonnes of carbon emissions – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.

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The City Fix

JULY 10, 2023

To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around the credibility of many of these pledges and whether these goals will be met. Together, countries with net-zero targets — which.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. This threatens “many species on Earth, including our own,” the report warns.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 19, 2019

I have utmost respect for Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist. The way she has serenely raised the issue of climate change and braved some disgraceful vitriol from right wing commentators is laudable. But let’s be clear: the sailing trip is a publicity stunt.

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Rinexii

JULY 23, 2021

Rain forests are being cut down to make way for rubber tree plantations, and climate change itself is causing diseases and other problems with the rubber trees themselves. Today, dandelion rubber is gaining new interest for a different reason–our swiftly warming planet.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Business Secretary pushes green finance agenda as he unveils £12m climate fund to support projects Africa, Asia and South America. The talks come as the government draws up its hotly-anticipated coronavirus recovery economic stimulus strategy, which is expected to be unveiled next month.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The research provides evidence that global water towers are at risk, in many cases critically, due to the threats of climate change, growing populations, mismanagement of water resources, and other geopolitical factors. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The research provides evidence that global water towers are at risk, in many cases critically, due to the threats of climate change, growing populations, mismanagement of water resources, and other geopolitical factors. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. To learn more about the impact of Planet data on forestry and carbon credits, read our previous blog about Pachama, a carbon credits marketplace supporting forests in North and South America.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Around the world, leaves play a critical central role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. This story is part of Record High , a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2023

Multi-year droughts have also created challenges in South America (although heavy snows in July 2022 brought some relief to the Andes in Chile and Peru ). As the impacts of climate change intensify, experts predict fundamental shifts in mountain hydrologic cycles, with consequences for snow-reliant people and ecosystems.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

In Latin America, the power generation sector is going through a rapid transition toward the decarbonization of the grid. Moreover, Latin America is one of the most affected regions by climate change and its countries are increasingly concerned about the decreasing resilience and security of water supplies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 8, 2024

Climate Change is a significant factor driving this. We are also supporting emerging opportunities in Central and South America and East Africa. Are there any noteworthy projects or partnerships that highlight your global expansion efforts? This is a great observation and question.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Maarten Vleeschhouwer, head of PACTA at the 2C Investing Initiative said: "PACTA for Banks represents a milestone in our efforts to mobilise the banking and financial services sector in the fight against climate change. It was developed with input from banks, NGOs, and universities.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

Fink makes the case that climate change will fundamentally reshape the world and finance. Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. [A Investors are increasingly reckoning with these questions and recognizing that climate risk is investment risk.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2020

Adding to this, the impact of climate change is becoming more apparent each season, with record warm droughts and flooding. The importance of resilient food supply chains is more evident than ever as seen with disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There has, quite understandably, been an increasingly heavy focus on the role of human diets in climate change. At present, animal diets are a major climate problem. Livestock is too often fed on diets heavy on soya, which has been linked to land-use change and deforestation in parts of South America and Asia.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

As SIGWATCH data shows (see graph above), while campaigning on meat divestment has a way to go before it reaches the dizzying heights of carbon divestment, it is seeing a sustained increase that correlates with greater attention on industrial agriculture's contribution to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

The government has been urged to introduce an immediate ban on new intensive poultry sheds in a bid to curb deforestation and habitat loss in South America caused by soya production for UK livestock feed. million hectares, with much of this land in ecologically vulnerable areas of the Americas, according to the Soil Association.

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