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Del Birmingham

Deforestation climbing - along with fears - in the Amazon - 0 views

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    According to the Brazilian NGO's analysis of satellite data, 1,373 square kilometers of rainforest was chopped down between August 2014 and December 2014, a 224 percent increase relative to the prior corresponding period a year before. Forest degradation from selective logging and fires is pacing 664 percent ahead of last year. Forest degradation typically precedes outright clearing.
Adriana Trujillo

Waiākea aims to be first with fully degradable PET bottle - 0 views

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    Naturally alkaline Hawaiian bottled water brand Waiākea says it will be the first beverage brand to utilize PET bottles that degrade in 10-15 years - rather than 1,500 - after teaming up with Florida-based TimePlast.
Adriana Trujillo

WRI Announces $2 Billion Commitment to Restoring Degraded Forests - 1 views

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    Latin America and the Caribbean are due for an ecological makeover. The World Resources Institute (WRI) says it already has the funding committed to restore some 131 million degraded lands across the region. The project has 16 investors so far. Another 19 investors are already hard and work funding the restoration of more than 24 million acres.
Del Birmingham

Water can be planted - how agroforestry is transforming São Paulo, Brazil - G... - 0 views

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    Fazenda da Toca, a private enterprise in São Paulo, is demonstrating the viability of large scale organic farming and agroforestry, including on land with highly degraded soils. Toca could effectively end the myth that agroforestry is not viable at a large scale, that it's too expensive and too labor intensive to be attractive to the private sector.
Adriana Trujillo

Adidas's New Ocean Plastic Shoes Are Just The Beginning | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 1 views

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    Adidas partnered with Parley for the Oceans, a nonprofit that fights ocean plastic waste, to develop the shoe. Part of the upper is made from plastic bottles, bags, and other plastic that commonly ends up in the water.
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    Adidas partnered with Parley for the Oceans, a nonprofit that fights ocean plastic waste, to develop the shoe. Part of the upper is made from plastic bottles, bags, and other plastic that commonly ends up in the water. Because plastic degrades quickly in the ocean-turning into tiny particles that are hard to collect-most of the plastic was gathered on beaches.
Del Birmingham

The Latest Skirmish in a Long Battle to Save the Amazon -- K@W - 0 views

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    Between August 2012 and June 2013, 1,855 square kilometers of the Brazilian Amazon were lost, a yearly increase of 103%. Degradation, where the forest appears intact but has been stripped of many commercial woods, increased 1,078%, albeit over a much smaller area. 
Adriana Trujillo

Pope Francis to Explore Climate's Effect on World's Poor - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Pope Francis will release a major encyclical this week calling for the world's Catholics to take a stand against climate change and environmental degradation. The letter, the first such statement by a pope, will frame environmental activism as a social justice issue. "Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him. The encyclical will have a major impact," U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said. 
Adriana Trujillo

Latam countries launch plan to store carbon, fight global warming | Reuters - 0 views

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    Eight Latin American countries on Sunday announced an initiative to restore 20 million hectares of degraded forest and farmland, seeking to use this land to store carbon in natural vegetation and cut emissions that cause global warming.
Adriana Trujillo

Carbon Credit Plan Aims to Save Kenyan Trees and Elephants-and Help Villagers - 0 views

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    Kenya-based Wildlife Works Carbon employs "wildlife rangers" on about 500,000 acres in and around two national parks to protect elephants from poachers. The company sells carbon credits to raise the funds needed to pay the rangers. The cash raised also goes to compensate landowners for leaving land and resources in their natural condition, and to fund educational and community projects. It's the country's pilot project as part of its belonging to the United Nations' Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program.
Del Birmingham

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy - 0 views

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    The Department of Defense is clear-eyed about the challenges climate change poses. "The pressures caused by climate change will influence resource competition while placing additional burdens on economies, societies, and governance institutions around the world," the most recent Quadrennial Defense Review, issued in 2014, states. "These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability, and social tensions-conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."
Del Birmingham

Green finance: Funds for forests 'dwarfed by investment in activities that destroy them... - 0 views

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    New research on progress towards ending deforestation by 2030 shows funding is woefully short, while indigenous groups say their role as protectors of the forest is under increasing threat. Recent news that the world's tropical forests are now so degraded they have become a source rather than a sink of carbon emissions have injected new urgency into the need to achieve the goals set out in the New York Declaration on Forests four years ago.
Adriana Trujillo

European Parliament Votes to Phase Out Palm Oil-Based Biofuels by 2020 | Sustainable Br... - 0 views

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    To counter the impact of unsustainable palm oil production, such as deforestation and habitat degradation, the European Parliament has approved a resolution to develop a single certification scheme for palm oil entering the EU market and phase out the use of vegetable oils that drive deforestation by 2020. It is Parliament's first resolution on the issue, but it is now up to the European Commission to act upon it.
Adriana Trujillo

Report: U.S. Meat Industry Linked to Largest Gulf Dead Zone Ever - 0 views

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    According to a report issued this week by the NGO Mighty Earth, the U.S. meat industry is largely responsible for what has become the largest "dead zone" ever in the Gulf of Mexico. While past studies have showcased the meat and poultry sectors' impact on both the environment and public health, Mighty's study sheds light on the large agribusiness companies the NGO says contribute to the Gulf's ongoing environmental degradation attributed to algae blooms.
Del Birmingham

150 Organizations Call for Ban on 'Biodegradable' Plastic Packaging - 0 views

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    The organizations cite research undertaken by universities, government agencies, laboratories, plastic trade associations and NGOs that have concluded oxo-degradable plastics are not suited for long-term reuse, recycling or composting. Instead, evidence has shown that these plastics often fragment into small pieces often not visible to the naked eye; those microplastic particles in turn often end up in both soil and oceans.
Adriana Trujillo

Unilever, PepsiCo wash hands of 'biodegradable' plastic | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Emerging evidence suggests oxo-degradable packaging could be more harmful than previously realized.
Brett Rohring

Unilever, Wilmar International ink palm oil supply chain deal | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

  • Wilmar International yesterday signed a deal with consumer goods giant Unilever, which has promised that 100 percent of the palm oil used in its supply chain would by fully traceable by the end of 2014.
  • Wilmar controls 45 percent of the world's palm oil market
  • The company has already taken steps to preserve high conservation value forests and peatland on its own concessions, although campaigners have been quick to point out that deal covers just a sliver of the palm oil it trades.
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  • A report by Greenpeace earlier this year accused Wilmar of trading with companies that deforest areas illegally
Del Birmingham

Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest - 0 views

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    While the usual culprits such as farming, ranching and logging are well known, gold mining is fast extending its destructive reach into some of the world's most untouched landscapes, according to research published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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