Cop can be torturous and tedious – but here’s why it’s worth paying attention World leaders – or at least about 50 of them – flew away from preliminary Cop meetings in the Amazonian city of Belém last week, where they met to discuss the climate crisis, the ravages committed on the planet’s biggest rainforestContinue reading “Is it worth paying attention to Cop meetings”
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Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024
Why 2024 could be the year the Amazon gets the help it needs For decades, the world’s rainforests have been cleared at a relentless pace, mostly destroyed by humans for agriculture. It is a familiar tale accompanied by images of orangutans confronting loggers and cattle ranchers expanding further into the Earth’s most biodiverse places. ButContinue reading “Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024”
Scientist continues her 40-year quest to save the northern muriqui
Feliciano Miguel Abdala Private Natural Heritage Reserve contains an example of Atlantic Forest biome. The reserve is home to rare buffy-headed marmosets and to one of the last wild populations of northern muriqui woolly spider monkeys
Philosophy of frugal simplicity
Two centuries of industrialisation, population growth and frenzied economic activity has bequeathed us smog; polluted lakes, rivers and oceans; toxic waste; soil erosion; deforestation; of plant and animal species, and global warming. The philosophy of frugal simplicity expresses values and advocates a lifestyle that might be our best hope for reversing these trends and preservingContinue reading “Philosophy of frugal simplicity”
Composted Reads for 17 November
Draft Cop27 agreement fails to call for ‘phase-down’ of all fossil fuels
Pakistan warned the world of their coming floods – they were ignored
Flash flooding from ‘monster monsoon’ washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless in Pakistan
Composted reads for the first part of May 2022
Good and bad news for our environment, brought by the Guardian
Good and bad news for the 4th week of April
The good news Sea-farmed supercrop: how seaweed could transform the way we live Experts believe that seaweed could be a key crop in the “protein shift” away from meat. Some of last spring’s harvest here hit about 30% protein, close to the level that would make it compete against the world’s other big protein sourcesContinue reading “Good and bad news for the 4th week of April”
Climate and cocoa: why an anti-modern slavery movement is talking about the environment
At the time of writing, almost 180,000 people within the Freedom United community are calling for change from major chocolate companies. Those changes include a call for an end to deforestation and a rapid reduction of pesticide usage. So why is an anti-modern slavery community pushing for improved environmental protection policies in the cocoa sector?Continue reading “Climate and cocoa: why an anti-modern slavery movement is talking about the environment”
COP26: Deal reached to aim to end deforestation by 2030
Originally posted on A greener life, a greener world:
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) flanked by US President Joe Biden (centre) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (right) on the first real day of COP26. Photo credit: UN Climate Change / Kiara Worth via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen World leaders on Monday last week hailed…
Some View on the World 