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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. Debt-for-nature swaps in Costa Rica.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) The argument has been made that the ‘cold blob’ might not be caused by an AMOC decline but by heat loss at the ocean surface. We argued in Caesar et al. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

During the year as a whole the record was not just broken, but broken by a great amount as 2023 was 0.17C hotter than 2016 – the previous hottest year. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures.

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Global emissions from energy are flat. Now what ?

Edouard Stenger

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016. Deforestation is one.

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

We also know that wood is stored for a period of time in streams, but that an essential function of wood is movement through river systems at varying rates 19,20 to its final destinations of lakes and oceans 21. Water Resour Res 52 , 3910–3929 (2016). Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 40 , 598–615 (2016).

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

The British think-tank Sandbag claimed the deforestation induced by wood’s high demand will cancel out the benefit of not burning coal, thus boosting climate change rather than mitigating it. Since then, gallons of water flowed under the bridge and the H 2 O-derived renewable energy evolved into two major outputs: hydropower and ocean energy.

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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. Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.” The leading edge of that disruption is already here.