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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing. billion people by 2050.

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Carbon Dioxide Equivalent – Applications for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Business Bureau

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). The three main sources of human-induced CO2 emissions are transportation, electricity, and industry. Major Greenhouse Gases.

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US landfills emit far more methane than previously known

Grist

Tackling these hotspots could be a huge stride toward lowering emission rates, but blindspots in current monitoring protocols mean they often evade detection. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas created by, among other things, decaying trash , and it often seeps through the soil and plastic covers meant to contain it.

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The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

Grist

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Arctic fires released more carbon in two months than Scandinavia will all year

Grist

But everything, apparently, is worse in 2020, including the climate toll of this year’s Arctic fires , which makes 2019 seem like a warm-up. Toward the end of the month, daily levels of “fire radiative power,” a measure of the fires’ heat output, far eclipsed those seen in 2019.

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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. This is followed by strategic greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives, the implementation of renewable energy solutions, and then carbon offsetting. The right carbon reduction service can offer you all of these.

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Are we overestimating how much trees will help fight climate change?

Grist

As anyone following the fires burning in the Amazon rainforest knows by now, trees play an important role in helping to offset global warming by storing carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide — a major contributor to rising temperatures — in their wood, leaves, and roots. Both processes are necessary to fine-tune each other’s readings.