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

Corporate Knights

This was one of the unspoken conclusions of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released last month, which offered dire warnings about the future of the planet but failed to recommend shifting to a plant-based diet. Let them eat meat.

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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. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping. BusinessGreen. Sponsored Article.

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Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence

Stanford Social Innovation

Without coordinated action and deep integration of responses to climate change and mental health, we risk insurmountable strain on our world and people’s mental health and well-being, leading to higher rates of mental ill health, moral and spiritual disarray, and strained systems of response.

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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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Creating an Energy-to-Food Future

B the Change

VAXA Takes an Oceanic-Based Approach to the Next Frontier of Food Production As climate change seeps into every aspect of our food chain, including our oceans, there is an imperative to pivot to alternative sources for nutrition to keep up with the future needs of our population. 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.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

In the early 2000s, a number of leaders within the American conservative evangelical community embraced climate change as a priority issue. This shift was initiated when a British climate scientist, who is also a devout Christian, attended a retreat where he met a prominent leader from the American Christian evangelical movement.

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