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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate

Energy Innovation

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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Stakeholder Capitalism Still Makes Business Sense

Andrew Winston

The Not So Good News On climate, companies are lagging behind the 2015 Paris agreement goals to hold global temperature rise to below 2°C (and preferably limit it to 1.5 °C). The world’s biggest challenges — climate change, inequality, biodiversity destruction — are getting worse. This is a colossal mistake.

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Climate change is adversely affecting childrens health worldwide

AGreenLiving

Work began in 2015 and has since been annually tracked, with anthropogenic climate change threatening all the progress and gains made in public health for the past half-century. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

The UK government, as host of the most important climate conference since the Paris Agreement in 2015, must step up its efforts and show climate leadership. Our generation is unique in the history of this crisis. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C

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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate

Energy Innovation

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. Unfortunately, the climate crisis and biodiversity loss are too often considered separately from one another. Climate change presents a growing threat to biodiversity.

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

million people in 2015. In addition to the pandemic we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. Agricultural shortfalls will be further exacerbated by ocean acidification, which is another corollary of rising levels of atmospheric CO2. In the U.S. extreme weather killed more than 2,000 people in 2014.

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

million people in 2015. In addition to the pandemic we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. Agricultural shortfalls will be further exacerbated by ocean acidification, which is another corollary of rising levels of atmospheric CO2. In the U.S. extreme weather killed more than 2,000 people in 2014.