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As we’re living through the twin crises of climate change and nature destruction, our mission is to inform, engage and most of all, educate our readers on this topic. No matter where you are in the world or what views you have, you can always rely on Future World News to provide factually correct information.
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In Bali, locals & activists from @Sungaiwatch are cleaning waterways – 400,000 kilos of rubbish, to be precise, from rivers & streams. Over half of the plastic waste originates from big brands. Indonesia is the world’s 2nd largest ocean polluter.
#Biodiversity is the web of life that connects us all. 🕸
@IPBES breaks down ...
🍄 What #biodiversity is
🐝 Why we need diverse plants and animals
🌳 What we can do #ForNature
EU food companies are breaking their plastic promises. According to a DW investigation, two-thirds of pledges to go greener on plastic fail/are scrapped.
➡️ http://p.dw.com/p/4EkyT
Nearly 200 million hectares of tropical forest have been lost over the past 20 years in regions where primates live, with Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Amazon considered high-priority areas. https://bit.ly/3BQiOey
🔥 Brazil vowed last year to halt #deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June.
Here is what you need to know about tropical forest fires⤵️
🏝 Caribbean nations need rich countries to pay their fair share of climate finance, not market measures that let polluters off the hook.
The problem with The Bahamas’ blue #carbonmarket plans⤵️
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/08/03/the-problem-with-the-bahamas-blue-carbon-market-plans/ 📰 @ClimateHome
Incoming environment minister @susanamuhamad said that Colombia must meet international targets for #Deforestation of 100,000 hectares or less by 2025. Deforestation has been rising, despite pledges to cut down on the number of trees being felled.
The Senate on Sunday passed the Inflation Reduction Act on a strict party-line vote.
It's "the single most important step the US has ever taken to combat the climate crisis," writes @rebleber. "Arguably, it's one of the biggest investments ever made on climate in the world."
🛢 The U.S. Senate climate bill’s fee on oil and gas industry #methane emissions will cover less than half the sector’s releases of the powerful greenhouse gas.
Conceding to Manchin, U.S. climate bill exempts most oil industry from methane fees
The U.S. Senate climate bill‘s fee on oil and gas industry methane emissions will cover less than half the ...
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🌳 10% of the world’s #biodiversity is in the Amazon.
#Indigenouspeople are the best guardians of the world's forests and biodiversity.
Protecting their right to ancestral lands is crucial to saving the world's most biodiverse rainforest.
Via @WEF
Today is World #IndigenousPeoplesDay!
🌿 Indigenous knowledge and territorial rights are essential to address the climate and #biodiversity crises.
Yet #Indigenouspeoples continue to face barriers to their rights to lands and territories.
🎥 via @WEF
Hundreds of airstrips have been illegally and secretly built on protected lands in Brazil to fuel the criminal mining industry, a New York Times investigation has found.
The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land
The Times identified hundreds of airstrips that bring criminal mining operations to the most remote corners of the Amazon.
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