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Frontiers’ volunteers: Riding for restoration and… cake

Frontiers

When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Deforestation also releases millions of tons of stored carbon, disrupting our already fragile climate.

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

Today, this is done via the Energy Development Account (CDE), a fund for the development of the energy sector, including coal, supplied by charges to energy distribution companies. This technology is the way out.”. But a request for an amendment to this bill is seeking to extend the deadline to 2035.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. What are the limitations of renewable technologies? How green are renewables? Solar and wind. What’s the foreseeable future of renewable energy?

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

Parties submitted their first NDCs for the 2015 Paris meeting, and most submitted an update for 2020, but the schedule thereafter was not fully agreed. It has become routine to announce new initiatives in technology, social entrepreneurship, or philanthropy at COPs.

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Should We Intensify Farming to Prevent Disease Epidemics like Coronavirus? An Interview with Josef Settele

Environmental Progress

Interview, May 4, 2020 Dr. Josef Settele, Professor of Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research, Dept. For instance, when the Brazilian Amazon reached a peak of deforestation in 2004, strong command-and-control policies were put in place, carrying strong sanctions for municipalities and farmers to comply with legislation.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. and around the world.