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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

Yet, swirling beneath the surface all of the major issues of the 21st century — climate change, globalization, immigration, women’s rights and wealth inequity — are being played out in remote coffee villages around the world. . From a high in 2014, prices paid to farmers have plummeted by 70 percent and now dance around $1 per pound.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there are almost 60 million more undernourished people now as compared to 2014. The battle against climate change is vital. percent of our total global greenhouse gas emissions , and its contribution as a sector to climate change is quite significant. Learn, share, act.

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Fossil Fuel Imports Are Already Constrained

Gail Tverberg

This relationship makes sense because oil is used to a significant extent in growing today’s food, and shipping it to market. The reason why oil is disproportionately high in Figure 1 compared to Figure 2 is because a little over 40% of oil is shipped between regions. Special ships to transport the LNG.

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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Gail Tverberg

Information from the US Energy Information Administration mentions that the country started having major problems once the world oil price started falling in 2014. This natural gas could be shipped as liquefied natural gas (LNG) around the world at great cost. Venezuela shows a fairly different pattern.

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Sewing Circle: Closing the Loop on Fast Fashion

Sense and Sustainability

million tons disposed of in 2014, California highlights the problem that “less expensive clothing is often made of lower quality materials, resulting in a higher rate of disposed clothing.” While the committee produced over a dozen recommendations , key points revolved around taxes and mandatory environmental targets.

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Japan’s Big Bet on Hydrogen

Chris Hall

Since then, several governments in the Asia-Pacific and beyond that have set net zero targets have “also put in place national-level policies and strategies for hydrogen”, notes Anjali Viswamohanan, Director of Policy at the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). Hydrogen comes in many shades, however.