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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

"We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes

DeSmogBlog

The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States. The Caribbean… as well as South America and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. Neither the U.S. nor Canada have done so.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

“We now need to turn this ambition into action and hold policy makers accountable to deliver on their commitments. The strategy focuses on Finance, Policies, Innovation, Training, and Standards.

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China 2022 best system assembly solution schemes

Smart Energy International

Over nine hundred companies of production chain took part in the event, including industrial executive institutes, scientific research organizations, power grid enterprises, power generation firms, system assembly providers and financial institutes. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

Envirotec Magazine

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems. A neglected terrain? Until now, rangelands have rarely featured on international agendas.

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Planet Announces New Details of Hyperspectral Offering

Planet Pulse

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands. Sign up to receive updates on Planet’s hyperspectral commercial offering here.

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How The U.S. Is Losing The Lithium Industry To China

R-Squared Energy

The issue came to a head in 1973, when various members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) initiated an oil embargo against the United States and certain U.S. The majority of global lithium reserves are in South America and Australia). It became clear many years ago that U.S. But just as the U.S.

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