Climate-KIC

JUNE 21, 2017

A frogfish finding shelter among bits of plastic is one of the winners of a World Oceans Day photography competition, announced at the United Nations earlier this month. The post Frogfish floating in litter’ winner at World Oceans Day appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In the food sector, which accounts for more than half of this pressure, deforestation, overfishing and plastic waste are among the biggest issues, while energy impacts come from pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. It can reverse ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

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.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 13, 2022

New research suggests that plastic could contribute to ocean acidification, especially in highly polluted coastal areas, through the release of organic chemical compounds and carbon dioxide, both of which can lower the pH of seawater.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In one of these cases, small island states are seeking an advisory opinion that defines countries’ legal requirements for protecting the oceans from harmful climate impacts — such as ocean acidification and sea level rise – that threaten their very existence.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The statement’s clear commitment to free markets ignores the fundamental flaws in the system — perfectly free markets do not address externalities (like dumping carbon pollution in the sky) or optimize for stakeholder well-being. Looking back, there were important cracks in the BRT’s logic.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2021

” Carbon emissions are the top reason for global warming and a major factor in extreme weather events and ocean acidification. . “Basically, we are just doing what nature has been doing for millions of years, so we are helping nature help itself.” The project first started in 2006.

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CleanTech San Diego

APRIL 29, 2024

Especially when addressing critical issues such as climate change, pollution, or biodiversity loss. Communicating these complex topics to your team, partners, and potential customers in a way that is easy to understand is key.

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CleanTech San Diego

APRIL 29, 2024

Especially when addressing critical issues such as climate change, pollution, or biodiversity loss. Communicating these complex topics to your team, partners, and potential customers in a way that is easy to understand is key.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Burmese pythons in Florida overconsuming local fauna) and the introduction of pollution and toxins (e.g., Pinning down the magnitude of climate impacts on biodiversity Historically, humans have impacted biodiversity in myriad ways, from land use change (e.g., clearing natural habitats for cropland) and resource extraction (e.g.,

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. In last week’s update, the research team found we had now gone beyond the safe zone into dangerous territory in six of the nine processes.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1, EEXI reflects the energy efficiency of ship design.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

The industry’s current line of argument in the Honolulu case (and others) is that these lawsuits are about the broader issue of emissions and pollution, and that the federal Clean Air Act preempts any claim brought by cities and states. Last week, the companies asked the Supreme Court to toss that ruling.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2024

Reefs around the world have already declined by half since the 1950s because of climate change, overfishing, and pollution. Elsewhere, laboratories are breeding corals to withstand heat and ocean acidification. I believe we are, just judging by the scale of the bleaching that we’re seeing.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The question of moral hazard and the risk of a well intended sector being hijacked by polluters makes many people extremely nervous. It is the goal that seeks to reduce the risk of the rainforest die off, the permafrost melt, and the ocean acidification where the monsters on the scientists' charts lurk.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The same elasticity effect applies to pollution. Economists argue that Pigouvian taxes , like a carbon tax, are the most economically efficient means of reducing pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . Ocean acidification – Surface ocean acidity has already increased by 30 percent since pre-industrial times.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

This week the World Meteorological Organisation published a report detailing how four key climate change indicators - greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification - all set new records in 2021.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We already know what's needed to secure a safer future: from saying no to polluting fossil fuels like the Cambo oil field, to restoring the natural world, protecting forests and meeting financial promises to support people on the frontline of the climate crisis. "The

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Grist

APRIL 13, 2022

While reefs are suffering because of a variety of factors — overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification among them — it’s widespread warming that is causing the most concern, as sea surface temperatures have slowly ticked up over the last 100 years. And like all coral species around the world, they are under threat.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

Our oceans are absorbing more and more carbon to the point they are reaching saturation. This is a process called ocean acidification that is starting to tip to a point where life in our oceans must adapt or die out. Ford: Managed forests help lower our carbon pollution problems in two main ways.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Four key climate change indicators - greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification - all set new records in 2021.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. Length: 1 hour 30 minutes.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Burmese pythons in Florida overconsuming local fauna) and the introduction of pollution and toxins (e.g., Pinning down the magnitude of climate impacts on biodiversity Historically, humans have impacted biodiversity in myriad ways, from land use change (e.g., clearing natural habitats for cropland) and resource extraction (e.g.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Currently, the world emits twice the amount of greenhouse gases it stores in oceans, forests, and other natural sequestration sinks. We have to do two things to reach net zero: expand the planets natural systems by limiting ocean acidification, reversing deforestation, and lowering emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many of the cases are using the Environmental Protection Act, which I drafted many years ago, and which, for example, requires companies to take into account their impact on the climate, their impact on the atmosphere, their impact on the ocean. So it’s basically the polluter pays. The problem is greenhouse gas pollution.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2025

For Edmundson, he sees seaweed as a way to turn mining into an environmentally positive activity, since the seaweed can filter out pollutants and combat ocean acidification. It almost democratizes mining and mineral harvesting.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Warren also suggests electrifying ports to reduce pollution impacts to frontline communities. Specifically, Warren promised in the Blue New Deal to ratify the Law of the Sea treaty, which fosters international cooperation on the world’s oceans, and also join the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission, an organization made up of seven Indigenous governments in south-central Alaska, is leading several projects aimed at helping coastal communities adapt to the changing ocean. Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that are poisoning our air and our water. A study published in Cardiovascular Research states that pollution from fossil fuels killed 3.6 In the U.S. million people in 2015.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that is poisoning our air and our water. A study published in Cardiovascular Research states that pollution from fossil fuels killed 3.6 In the U.S. million people in 2015.

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