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February 3, 2023
New research has found that between 2015-21, Dutch multinational banking and financial services company Rabobank, provided billions of dollars in finance to 18 of the world’s most environmentally destructive industrial livestock companies despite having a commitment to the goals of the Paris Agreement, the Dutch Climate Agreement and Commitment to Sustainable Agriculture and Forests.
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December 16, 2022
The COP15 biodiversity summit can help mainstream and scale up action happening on the ground into our economy, urging companies, banks and investors to treat the destruction of nature as a serious liability and integrate nature into their spending and lending.
November 7, 2022
COP27 is here. It comes after typhoons in the Philippines, heatwaves in Europe, drought in East Africa, and a global food price crisis. Millions are on the brink of famine and fires raged across continents. Farmers are crushed and our land exhausted.
October 26, 2022
Livestock burps contribute 25%–30% of global methane emissions. Some feed supplements to reduce emissions are already being sold as voluntary carbon credits, but scientific credibility, scalability and safety remain unclear.
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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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Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years | @orladwyer_ w/ comment from @terhiriutta Dr. Jamilah Mohd Salim and Celso H. L. Silva-Junior
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Brazil is preparing a task force of armed forces, police and government agencies to expel illegal gold miners who invaded the Yanomami indigenous reservation, officials said on Tuesday. http://reut.rs/3wRkpwV
🌾 'Overpromising': Report warns 'finite land' could complicate food, climate, and nature demands.
It argues more science-led data needed to inform land-use decision-making so as to benefit climate, nature, farming, and communities.
'Overpromising': Report warns 'finite land' could complicate food, climate, and nature demands
Royal Society argues more science-led data needed to inform land-use decision-making so as to benefit climate, nature, farming, and communities
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🌳#DYK When the Amazon is cut down, not only a unique biological diversity disappears, but also Argentina’s and many other South American countries’ rains.
This phenomenon is known as the Flying River.
➡️What happens in the #Amazon affects all of South America.
Trees are synonymous with nature, but as climate change continues to move quickly, trees can’t adapt fast enough. Should humans get involved to secure the future of the trees? Learn more in our blog post.
Lending a Hand: how to best protect the future of the trees - The YEARS Project
Trees. They might be the first image that pops into mind when picturing Mother Earth. They symbolize life and gr...
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Germany pledges funds to help Brazil defend Amazon rainforest http://reut.rs/3jg5f1c
Crackdown on environmental defenders at an alarming level | First Thing
Crackdown on environmental defenders at an alarming level | First Thing
Shooting in Atlanta part of dangerous escalation in the criminalization of environmental defenders, campaigners warn. Pl...
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The impact of illegal deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, captured in drone footage
Food production is responsible for 1/4 of the 🌎’s GHG emissions.
Yet, very little government investment has gone into decarbonizing #agriculture.
Here is why more funding needs to go towards tackling agriculture's climate impact⤵️
Read more in @TIME :
U.S. Universities Aren't Getting Enough Funding to Tackle Agriculture's Climate Impact
Federal and private funding to support climate research at U.S. land-grant universities doesn't match scale of agriculture's impact.
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🌿 Nature is not only our best defense against climate-related hazards, it is also a bountiful source of benefits and advantages for reducing and managing risks.
But only if we repay it with #NaturePositive actions.
In wake of ‘natural’ disasters, not reducing biodiversity loss is a big missed opportunity (commentary)
Floods, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires – a changing climate is bringing with it ever more frequent and destruc...
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🚩New research reveals @Rabobank funded 18 of the 🌎‘s most environmentally destructive industrial #livestock companies, despite its climate commitments.
Rabobank is being urged to stop financing industrial meat & dairy companies at the expense of the climate.
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Following reports of indigenous Yanomami children dying in Brazil of malnutrition and other diseases caused by illegal gold mining, there is strong evidence of "genocide," the country's Justice Minister Flavio Dino said on Monday.
Evidence of 'genocide' among Brazil's indigenous Yanomami, says minister
Following reports of indigenous Yanomami children dying in Brazil of malnutrition and other diseases caused by illegal...
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