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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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

Green Business Bureau

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

AGreenLiving

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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

Business Green

Of course, nature-related risks are arguably even more complex to tackle than climate risks, due to the myriad threats such as water scarcity, soil erosion, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, and even - as starkly illustrated by Covid-19 - disease transmission all causing very different regional impacts.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

AGreenLiving

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.