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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors.

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Violations Discovered at Nation’s First Carbon Capture and Storage Project

DeSmogBlog

Stored CO2 could also impact the climate through slow or large releases of CO2 to the surface , further affecting soil, trees, and other vegetation. One of the major concerns associated with CCS is corrosion — a particular concern given that carbon dioxide can become acidic when mixed with water.

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The critical role of biodiversity in creating business value

Business Green

And it provides vital services to society and the economy including: Regulating environmental stability, e.g. climate, water, air, disease. Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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

Business Green

Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues. Whilst the worst impacts of climate change are foreseen in the coming decades, I would argue that for some aspects of nature loss, they're already here.".