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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health. This knowledge is essential, though, to making daily health decisions and strengthening community climate resilience.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Avoiding False Solutions.

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Event - Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Green Market Oracle

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The conference will appeal to scholars, social activists, business people, and policy makers.

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Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity

Unsustainable

Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth. The nine PBs regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. Johan Rockström is a Professor in Environmental Science. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

GreenBiz

From a food security perspective, farmers can harness soil organic matter to ensure greater productivity of their fields and reduce erosion and improve soil structure, which leads to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters. Problematically, agronomists have a dearth of information on the biomes that makes up our soil.

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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

AGreenLiving

From a food security perspective, farmers can harness soil organic matter to ensure greater productivity of their fields and reduce erosion and improve soil structure, which leads to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters. Problematically, agronomists have a dearth of information on the biomes that makes up our soil.

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4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration

GreenBiz

Providing funding to poorer nations to undertake climate action is not only a moral and legal responsibility for developed countries, but also a strategic investment in a cleaner and more resilient world. It delivers funding through a diverse range of more than 100 organizations , from major U.S. President Donald Trump stopped U.S.