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UN highlights importance of US cooperation in Paris Agreement

The United Nations has compared the USA’s withdrawal from the Paris accord as “suicide”, stressing the importance for President-elect Joe Biden to rejoin. “The way we are moving is a suicide,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in...

Meat industry attempts to greenwash climate impact of animal agriculture

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Environment

Pork and dairy producers try to package biogas created from manure as sustainable energy, but activists are not having it. When the world’s largest pork producer and a major public utility announced they would team up to turn hog manure from North Carolina swine farms...

Wealthy entities have failed on promise to developing countries to fund climate strategy, says UN

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Developing countries were promised $100bn in financial assistance from public and private sources to help them deal with the climate crisis. Rich countries will miss a key promise they made to the poor world on the climate crisis by failing to provide the money...

We must save the planet for future generations

Blogs, ClimateChange, Environment

Children have realised the importance of saving the planet for their future. However, they need everyone to come to the table to make a meaningful change. “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.” These are not the words of a fringe eco-activist, rather a...

Are dairy farmers ready for the impact climate change will have on the industry?

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

Emily Kasriel interviews dairy farmers to get their take on how the industry will adapt to accommodate the rise of climate-friendly diets. Over the course of the conversation it is chilling to realise the level of science-denial that is rife. Amid the polarized...

Is the Paris agreement still the best plan we have?

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The Paris agreement which was drawn up five years ago cannot become a reality as long as world leaders fail to comply. So what now? No one who was in the hall that winter evening in a gloomy conference centre on the outskirts of the French capital will ever forget it....