The deadline to make dramatic reductions in climate-heating pollutants is closing fast, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and cities and transportation agencies will both need to transform themselves dramatically in the next decade to avoid the worst effects of a heating climate. Earlier this month, the IPCC... Continue Reading →
South Korea is set to build a “sustainable floating city” off the coast of major city Busan as early as 2023 in what is being called a “world first.” The goal behind this endeavour is yet another step in utilising breakthrough technologies to combat the continuous threats of climate change. The project, which presented its... Continue Reading →
South Korea is building a ‘floating city’ to survive rising sea levels
As climate impacts accelerate worldwide, businesses can support the huge societal shifts needed by showing true leadership. WWF’s Beyond Net-Zero guidance shows the way, writes Milan Kooijman, Climate Business Expert at WWF. We are at a defining moment in the fight to tackle climate change. To limit warming to 1.5°C and avoid the most catastrophic... Continue Reading →
Beyond Net-Zero: Setting a path for true corporate climate leadership
“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic
Climate change is forcing animal migrations at an unprecedented scale, bringing many previously disconnected species into close contact and dramatically raising the likelihood of viruses leaping into new hosts and sparking future pandemics. That’s according to a new study in the journal Nature, which predicts that climate-driven disruptions to Earth’s ecosystems will create thousands of... Continue Reading →
A recent Canadian Climate Institute report, Independent Assessment — 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, describes Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan as “a watershed moment in Canadian climate policy that has the potential to drive emissions reductions across all sectors and all major sources of emissions.” Five Major Policy Pathways Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan... Continue Reading →
Five Ways Canada Can Reach 2030 Emissions Target
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers. For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances... Continue Reading →
We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. In a portrait of land degradation across the globe, the report describes entire forests razed for timber or pasture; sensitive grasslands and wetlands lost to sprawling cities; and over-exploited lands that have dried up into... Continue Reading →
United Nations warns that humanity has ‘degraded’ 40 percent of Earth’s land
Food policy leaders release report calling on Congress to tackle pervasive food waste. Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, in collaboration with NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), ReFED, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), released “Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill,” a new report detailing how Congress should... Continue Reading →
The Next Farm Bill Can Save Money, Reduce Food Waste, Address Hunger, and Combat Climate Change
Rewilding—the reintroduction of native flora and fauna—is critical in the fight against climate change. Here, six important projects from Argentina to the Maldives. For 10 years now, one book has held a place in my ever-changing pile of bedside reading: Caroline Fraser’s Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Metropolitan Books, 2010). When I... Continue Reading →
6 Ways to Support Rewilding Projects Around the World
You May Be Practicing Some Permaculture Already Permaculture is a sustainable approach to the use of land, no matter its size. If you are a mindful home gardener, chances are that you are already practicing permaculture without being aware of it. What Is Permaculture? Permaculture, a term coined from “permanent agriculture”, was developed in the... Continue Reading →
How to Start a Permaculture Garden
It is difficult to imagine that when Li Zhenhai and his wife Jiang Kaizhi came to live in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region nearly four decades ago, there was no electricity, tap water or fresh vegetables. Even more difficult to imagine is that under the harsh living conditions they... Continue Reading →
