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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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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Dire Scientific Warnings from the Study of Fossilized Shells and Our Hope for the Future

Green Market Oracle

Scientists have recently added to the body of evidence confirming global warming as the cause of previous extinction events. This led them to conclude that the cause of the extinction was warming and ocean acidification attributable to the release of GHGs from massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time. To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C The challenge.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to a 2021 study by researchers from the New York University (NYU) Department of Environmental Studies, meat companies “emphasize mitigating energy use, with limited focus on emissions (e.g., methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

We need immediate action on energy. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century.