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Meat-producing countries muddy IPCC report’s message on plant-based diet

Corporate Knights

Argentina’s secretary for climate change, Rodrigo Rodriguez Tornquist, requested that that paragraph be eliminated, according to documents obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative outlet. In its place, the language was shifted to the vague recommendation of “balanced, sustainable healthy diets acknowledging nutritional needs.”

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

While the final shape of the proposals to be agreed by member states remains to be seen, Abbasov and ICS agreed that it was likely to not stray far from scenarios contained in the draft document.

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Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence

Stanford Social Innovation

While the climate and mental health movements are getting increased attention separately, a small set of leaders working across these movements are prioritizing and integrating mental health and climate advocacy as a unified effort.

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Take Five: IPCC Chair Issues Spoiler Alert

Chris Hall

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists. If all goes to plan, the key messages will be released Monday.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

Itlos became the first court in the world to produce such a document on climate change. “We Dialogue Earth spoke to Kate McKenzie, CEO and director of the Climate Change Legal Initiative, which works to establish legal means for forcing climate action. So far, I haven’t seen anything like that happening,” she admits.

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Creating an Energy-to-Food Future

B the Change

These realities are well documented and will continue with our rising ocean temperatures and acidity levels. With rising acidity some species of mollusks are even having a harder time creating the shells that protect them in their larval stage. Coral reefs are dying.

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A Dignity First Corporate Demand for Climate Action

Sustainable Round Table

Even though thousands of the world’s most relevant, respected, and peer-reviewed climate scientists have warned for decades that deep, broad, and urgent action is needed to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of our climate and ecological breakdown.1 Because carbon emissions continue up, always.