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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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Brazil could face losses of $317 billion per year as well as biodiversity depletion and severe social setbacks for millions of people if Amazon deforestation continues, a new report from… [...]
Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled [...]
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The United States is considering its first contribution to a multilateral fund aimed at fighting Amazon deforestation, with a possible announcement during President Joe Biden's meeting with Brazil's Luiz Inacio… [...]
Roughly 190 nations, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity, agreed to preserve 30 percent of the planet’s land and seas. The United States is not officially a participant. [...]
A group of researchers from the Science Panel for the Amazon, an initiative dedicated to the region, says reversing the destruction of the rainforest needs to be done through large-scale… [...]
Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled [...]
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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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🇧🇷🌳 Scientists are trying to understand whether the world’s most biodiverse forest has a tipping point that could throw it into a state of irreversible decline
World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon #deforestation.
World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation
The value is seven times higher than profits from commodities taken from the rainforest, the report concludes.
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Climate change and the biodiversity crisis are different sides of the same coin | Opinion by @KHayhoe
🌿 Subsidies that harm nature cost the world an estimated $1.8tn each year – the equivalent of the entire GDP of Canada.
How can countries stop subsidies harming #biodiversity?
Via @CarbonBrief
Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity? - Carbon Brief
In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explains how subsidies can cause damage to biodiversity and the hurdles standing in the way of getting rid of them.
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