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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015.

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

target, which all countries agreed to in 2015, had been breached on nearly half of the days in 2023. As well as the burning of fossil fuels and other climate-causing human activities such as deforestation, the temperature records in 2023 were also boosted by the El Nino weather phenomenon. What’s in store for 2024?

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. The world’s scientists warn of massive disruption to the planet in report after report. The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

A Greener Life

degrees C threshold in the next decades which countries had agreed as the desirable target in 2015’s Paris Agreement. The report states that a warming climate does not just impact temperatures but other settled weather patterns in different regions such as changes to wetness and dryness, to winds, snow and ice, coastal areas and oceans.

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Analysis: What is carbon-neutral milk?

A Greener Life

According to Johan Rockström , a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, offsets can be used to restore and grow new forests, protect the oceans and improve agricultural practices to increase soil health. In the UK, the National Farmers Union has a “net zero by 2040” target for the nation’s whole agriculture sector.

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The fertilisation of the Amazon rainforest by Saharan dust

Our Environment

The winds pick up Saharan dust, which then travels across the Atlantic Ocean to where it is deposited in the Amazon basin [4]. African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Shukman, D. Sanchez, P. Bandy, D. Villachica, J. O’Shea, N.

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Canada’s big banks face MPs over their financing of the climate crisis

Enviromental Defense

Tori Cress, Communications Manager at Keepers of the Water: “For Indigenous Peoples, banks’ investment in tar sands development means funding climate chaos, displacement, deforestation, poisonous water, toxic tailings, cancer, criminalization, and the further colonization of our bodies, minds, and homelands.