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Study: Fertiliser use threatens global climate goals as nitrous oxide emissions soar

Business Green

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Can and Will China and the US Take Climate Change Seriously?

Climate 4.0

Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. The red-coded tier, represent very difficult challenges, includes Japan, South Korea, much of Southeast Asia and Europe (including Germany), and some of South America, among others.

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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts.

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'We will not fight climate change with a virus': UN chief warns both climate and coronavirus emergencies 'must be defeated'

Business Green

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.