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September 30, 2022
Italy eats the Gran Chaco Italy and Argentina have fraternal ties, linking their history and their people through multiple generations. But, unwittingly and unwillingly, Italian consumers are contributing to the destruction of the most biodiverse ecosystem of the country to which millions emigrated from the Peninsula. This is the Gran Chaco Americano forest. This happens […]
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Although often overlooked in discussions around climate policy, agriculture is beginning to earn recognition as both a driver of climate change and a key part of the solution. [...]
September has come and gone, marking another painful milestone for the world's largest rainforest [...]
The world failed on all of its previous UN biodiversity targets, but we cannot afford another decade of failure. Targets are pointless unless you take them seriously, and we must… [...]
The politician and former environment minister urges Brazilians to vote for a change of leader [...]
Ramping up funding for indigenous and local communities - rather than just governments - to take the lead in protecting threatened forests could be key to boosting a stuttering global… [...]
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Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in September, already making it the worst month in more than a decade, government data showed on Monday, after a jump in deforestation during… [...]
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September 15, 2022
After 3 failed attempts and 2 years later than planned the Convention on Biodiversity is finally going to be held in Montreal. But shockingly leaders are not invited!
September 9, 2022
A strong majority of Europeans think businesses are failing in their responsibility to protect the world’s forests and therefore support a new law to ban products that destroy them.
August 4, 2022
A new loan from the International Finance Corporation to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company will drive further environmental destruction in the Cerrado savanna, a biodiversity hotspot, and disenfranchise local and indigenous communities.
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August 1, 2022
Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis offers a stark example of what happens when debt-ridden governments enforce abrupt and unmanaged action in our food system to cut costs – without supporting a fair, inclusive transition to sustainable alternatives.
July 8, 2022
The current global food system is destroying the natural world and exacerbating the climate crisis while allowing a handful of food companies to profiteer at the expense of farmers and consumers. The Ukraine war demonstrates how vulnerable the global food system is to shocks.
March 30, 2022
Humanity is slowly starting to take climate change mitigation and adaptation seriously. But, implementation has been too slow and uneven, the IPCC WGII’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report states.
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🔴 New initiative "AIM for Climate" claims to address climate change & global hunger.
In reality, #AIM4C is trying to rebrand big agribusiness corporations as climate saviours.
🔎 When industrial #agriculture hijacks climate action to advance commercial interests & greenwash⤵️
1) Conventions are government-led mechanisms, therefore they can’t exclude governments that form their constituency and provide their mandate and legitimacy 2) it would be a smart way to face the obvious lack of buy in of a number of key governments starting by the US that never https://twitter.com/fwn_science/status/1577915307536142336
🚀With 1 month to go COP27, we are launching our Series on the Aim4C coalition, a US-led, Big Ag friendly inititiave that aims to "tackle climate change".
We will investigate what other motives lie behind agribusiness’ embrace of the green agenda...
Shining a Light on Aim4C
The agricultural sector — a key driver of global warming — is coming under increasing pressure to cut emission...
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🔴 New initiative "AIM for Climate" claims to address climate change & global hunger.
In reality, #AIM4C is trying to rebrand big agribusiness corporations as climate saviours.
🔎 When industrial #agriculture hijacks climate action to advance commercial interests & greenwash⤵️
🚨 World leaders not invited to attend critical UN biodiversity summit.
Heads of government haven’t been invited to attend an important #biodiversity summit in Canada, raising concerns #nature is slipping down the global agenda.
World leaders not invited to attend critical UN biodiversity summit
Tense relations between the Chinese presidency and host nation Canada put a "Paris Agreement for nature" further out of reach
www.climatechangenews.com
September was the worst month for fire in the #Amazon in over a decade.
🌳 Despite the smoke clogging the air of entire Amazon cities, state elections have largely ignored #environmental issues.
Worst Brazil forest fires in a decade, yet election silence
September has come and gone, marking another painful milestone for the world's largest rainforest
www.independent.co.uk
🌿 #Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can’t afford another decade of failure.
Ahead of the UN biodiversity conference, @phoeb0 reflects on lessons of hope and change in 3 years reporting with the Guardian’s age of extinction team.
Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can‘t afford another decade of failure | Phoebe Weston
Ahead of the UN biodiversity conference, our reporter reflects on lessons of hope and change in three years report...
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“Next year Brazil has the opportunity to shift from being a laggard to a leader through new climate, biodiversity and energy policies,” argues politician Marina Silva. “Such changes are possible with a change of government” https://econ.st/3CoKya7
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Can regenerative farming help save the planet? @MrAlexAlba explains how this practice could restore biodiversity, fight climate change, and spark economic growth. Presented by @discovercotton
🚩A company that has received billions in green energy subsidies cuts down environmentally-important #forests, investigation reveals.
🪵 Drax, the UK's biggest power station, burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets -which is controversially classed as renewable energy.
