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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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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Of course, nature-related risks are arguably even more complex to tackle than climate risks, due to the myriad threats such as water scarcity, soil erosion, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, and even - as starkly illustrated by Covid-19 - disease transmission all causing very different regional impacts.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question. C or well below 2C - provided governments with the "foundation to act".

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Stakeholder Capitalism Still Makes Business Sense

Andrew Winston

And far too few have a good handle on how their businesses impact and depend on biodiversity and natural resources, such as how water shortages might disrupt operations and supply chains for food or consumer products companies. Some powerful trade associations continue to attack climate policies and disclosure regulations.

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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. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Top Rope Media Presents: Marketing Strategies for Startups on a Mission to Save the Planet

CleanTech San Diego

Navigate the Highly-Regulated Marketplace for Your Customers If your startup or brand has lofty goals of getting to net zero, you are operating within a complex regulatory and policy landscape. Therefore, you have to anticipate and adapt to evolving policy changes that may impact your operations or market opportunities.

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Top Rope Media Presents: Marketing Strategies for Startups on a Mission to Save the Planet

CleanTech San Diego

Navigate the Highly-Regulated Marketplace for Your Customers If your startup or brand has lofty goals of getting to net zero, you are operating within a complex regulatory and policy landscape. Therefore, you have to anticipate and adapt to evolving policy changes that may impact your operations or market opportunities.