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Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential

GreenBiz

Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. In addition to these opportunities, a range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billions of tons of carbon.

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

Green Business Bureau

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . Ocean acidification – Surface ocean acidity has already increased by 30 percent since pre-industrial times.

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

Business Green

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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

Green Market Oracle

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. A study reported by Science Alert indicates that a sustainable, poverty free future is possible.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. There is generally a lack of funding and the resources are limited,” said Tigre. In the U.S.,

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

This must be optimally complemented by sharp reductions in the rise in concentrations of short-lived greenhouse gases, in particular methane, which will further slow warming and thereby limit the time and amount of the required intervention. The choice is ours.