DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Environmental issues have occupied a central place in respondents' minds for years: they have made up most of the top five risks in nearly every survey since 2016. Every year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) asks hundreds of professionals about the biggest risks for their industries and the economy at large.

Ocean acidification 36

Ocean acidification Biodiversity Real Estate Climate change 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Ocean acidification – Surface ocean acidity has already increased by 30 percent since pre-industrial times.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

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. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Carbon Pollution 72

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 119