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Getting Paid to Practice Climate-Smart Agroforestry

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The World Bank BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes has developed a methodology for accounting for carbon emissions across diverse landscapes, the first of its kind.

Achieving Net Zero Carbon Yields Dividends for Sheep and Cattle Ranch

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Implementing the Bare Ranch Carbon Farm Plan is helping mitigate climate change and yielding financial and broad-based ecosystems benefits.

Big Bank Tar Sands Financing More than Doubled in 2017

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The world’s biggest banks continue to hasten the coming of extreme climate change by raising financing “extreme fossil fuels” exploration, production, distribution and consumption.

Forty Percent of World Population Threatened by Ongoing Land Degradation

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 1 Comments

More than 75 percent of the Earth’s land surface had suffered severely as a result of human land degradation as of 2014, IPBES highlights. Experts estimate that less than one-tenth of the Earth’s land surface will have escaped substantial impacts of human activity come 2050.

Climate Change Could Force 143 Million Across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America to Migrate

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

These numbers can be reduced by tens of millions if appropriate actions were taken at the national and international levels, the World Bank says.

The EPA’s Plans to Gut the Clean Water Rule

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

President Trump vowed “to promote clean air and clear water” in February 2017. Flash forward a year and that promise seems to be a flimsy one at best. The Trump administration has recently made it clear it will gut an Obama-era rule designed to protect smaller bodies of water in the U.S. On January 21, 2018, the EPA and the…

Lloyd’s Register: Approaching a Global Renewable Energy Tipping Point

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

A critical, global tipping point is fast approaching regarding the transformation from fossil fuel to distributed, renewable energy energy resource use.