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Too few UK companies have an adequate plan for switching to a clean, green future, a new study has found.
Nearly two thirds of emissions by British firms are not covered by decarbonisation targets while one in five who do have targets are not on course to meet them by the UN’s 2030 deadline
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Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit
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The Decline In Coal Appears To Have Been Exaggerated
Despite big promises of a green transition and the creation of ambitious climate pledges, some countries are continuing to support the development of new coal mines. The U.K. and Australia both have coal facility plans that could go against their climate pledges, while there is no sign of slowing down China’s coal industry
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/The-Decline-In-Coal-Appears-To-Have-Been-Exaggerated.html
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Sustainable food - not more of it - needed as global hunger soars
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As global hunger swiftly rises - by more than a third last year - curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming's heavy reliance on fossil fuels, food waste and meat eating, experts said.
So much of the stuff that allows you and I to lead our privileged and luxurious lifestyles (compared to ~90% of people in the world) requires activities that damage and pollute fragile ecosystems.
Take mining for example...
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We live at the center of a spider web of global mining supply chains.
The vehicle that took you to the market, the rechargeable battery in your headphones, and the phone or computer you’re reading this article on right now — all required the extraction, processing, transport, and sale of minerals that likely originated from points all over the planet. But measuring the cumulative impact of these supply chains, which can span multiple continents and involve dozens of entities, formal and informal, is a tricky business.
A new study may have just given a big boost to anyone looking for a clear picture of what those supply chains look like at their point of origin.
Tim Werner, a fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, is one of the study’s lead authors. Werner and his colleagues built on previous studies that used similar imagery to map the locations of mining sites worldwide. But their study includes far more detail on those sites than before, delineating the boundaries of specific mining features like waste dumps, tailings dams, and processing infrastructure.
The top mineral commodity captured in the study was coal, followed by gold, copper, iron, phosphate, and salt.
Nearly 10% of the total mining fell inside of protected areas such as national parks, Ramsar wetlands, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. While previous studies have confirmed the widespread occurrence of mining inside protected areas across the world, the data set includes more detail on those activities than ever before.
Werner said that is just one example of the data set’s potential public interest value. “We chose protected areas as one interesting thing, but you could look at the distribution of different bird species, or things like flooding risk, for example. Or how a different mine is going to be impacted by climate change in the future, or sea level rise and extreme heat. How are they situated in relation to human settlements and Indigenous populations? There are so many important questions we can address.”
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are not safe? National parks are not safe? That's... not very reassuring. 😔
FULL ARTICLE -- https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/new-study-reveals-fine-detail-on-location-and-scale-of-mining-sites-worldwide/
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We live at the center of a spiderweb of global mining supply chains. The vehicle that took you to the market, the rechargeable battery in your headphones, and the phone or computer you’re reading this article on right now — all required the extraction, processing, transport and sale of minerals that likely originated from points […]
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