DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. Many meat companies report plans to ensure that soy within their supply chain is verified as responsibly sourced by programs such as the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS).

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

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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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air. And it provides vital services to society and the economy including: Regulating environmental stability, e.g. climate, water, air, disease.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. Carbon taxes can be beneficial to an economy.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

If you plant trees on marginal land, grow them, harvest them, and then replant them — you can actually improve the soil quality of that marginal land over time. When trees die some of the carbon is released through processes of decay but a majority is converted into soil and broken down by bugs and fungi.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission, an organization made up of seven Indigenous governments in south-central Alaska, is leading several projects aimed at helping coastal communities adapt to the changing ocean. Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells.

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