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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

Last September, the state of California demanded that oil companies fund efforts to recover from extreme weather. Meanwhile, Hoboken, New Jersey, and a collection of cities in Puerto Rico have added racketeering lawsuits to the mix , alleging that oil companies engaged in a conspiracy of deception.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors. By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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

Green Business Bureau

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

Forthcoming Court Opinions Could Be “Gamechangers “ These cases include a sweeping climate lawsuit filed by six Portuguese youths against more than 30 European countries , demanding greater climate mitigation ambition and steeper emissions cuts to protect human rights.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

350 ppm) that will not cause serious climate disruption, ice sheet destabilisation (leading to accelerating rate of sea level rise), and ocean acidification that is endangering the marine food chain which provides significant global protein.

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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Analysis by Carbon Tracker last week tallied up total oil sector write-downs at $87bn over the past nine months, thanks to a combination of lower oil demand and the accelerating clean energy transition. As such, moves are now being made to try and address these growing risks.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year.