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'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?

Business Green

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. Figures show that the current average will increase from 15% of the global energy mix to 28% by 2050. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012.

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'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

Business Green

And that is assuming the world can move on to a 2C global warming pathway. If the global economy stays on track for 3C of warming or worse, then climate resilience measures become even more important. During 2010's heatwave, the loss in productivity that resulted is estimated to have cost the UK £770m.