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Saving the planet one plate at a time

HumanNature

Yet, amid these advancements, we often overlook the simplest and most immediate solution: reducing food waste. Food waste occurs at every stage of the production and supply chain, from agricultural fields to supermarket shelves to consumer households. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for action to combat food waste.

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The COP28 Halftime Report

Legal Planet

Having been to more than a handful of these conferences going back to Copenhagen in 2009, I am struck by a few dynamics that seem different this year. Here are four mid-COP takeaways. That work is essential and has attracted a lot of attention as an early COP success.

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Beyond troubled waters? Unprecedented cross-border transportation and injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) for offshore storage shows promise

Law Columbia

This blog post details the latter: it discusses how a 2022 bilateral agreement between Belgium and Denmark authorizing the provisional application of the 2009 amendment to the London Protocol on CO 2 export was instrumental for this cross-border operation. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP.

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Normal Farm Practices Board shuts down greenhouse biodigester

Law of the Lands

On November 8, 2018, the Board issued its Reasons for Decision in a case involving allegations of disturbances due to odour, flies, dust, light, noise and vibration arising from the operation of a biodigester at a large greenhouse operation. The Application was brought by a number of residents living in the vicinity of the operation in 2015.

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Analysis: Ecocide in Gaza: Who will hear and heal its dying environment?

A Greener Life

According to Forensic Architecture, over 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been obliterated since October 2023. In 2008–2009, IDF damaged one-third of Gaza’s farmland. Sewage leaks from nearby bombed homes, piling up waste everywhere near Rafah in Gaza, now hosting much of the population.

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The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels

Circle of Blue

But it also indicates that by swiftly and drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the worst effects of climate change can be prevented, avoiding worst-case outcomes for water availability. And it shows that certain trends such as rising seas and shrinking ice sheets will continue even if carbon pollution were halted immediately.

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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