Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The figure also rates their Technology Readiness Level (TRL), maximum mitigation potential (how many gigatonnes (10 9 tonnes) of CO 2 can be sequestered per year), and storage timescale. Reforestation – Conversion to forest of land that was previously deforested. Forest management – Stewardship and use of existing forests.

Waste

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

China’s expertise in energy planning, market investment and clean-energy technology could help them redraw their plans and roadmaps for the energy transition and economic development, and in doing so, deepen China’s cooperation with Africa and the Southeast Asian nations. There is also uncertainty around the remaining 97.4%

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

Deforestation

Scientific American

AUGUST 9, 2021

A pilot program reveals that deforestation declined when Peruvian Indigenous communities use an early-alert-system app to detect forest loss. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. percent or even 39 percent with a commensurate increase in costs for California drivers.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a recent report of the International Energy Agency, we could see a near tripling in copper demand for solar panels, as well as big increases in demand for cadmium, tellurium, gallium, and lead, in different amounts and combinations depending on which technologies win out. Bottom line: if we use less energy, we use less land.

Conservation

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The idea that apartment complexes are the cause of urban deforestation makes no sense. Many apartment buildings around the world cover themselves in greenery, and much of the loss of green cover on Los Angeles’ streets comes not from multifamily units, but from deforestation in single-family neighborhoods and lots.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. The Dry River separates two regions that have divergent histories.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

Law

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With enforcement of a new deforestation law on the horizon, stakeholders along the food supply chain and working to ensure compliance. Read the full story at Food Navigator Europe. We look at the new tools and services being developed that promise enhanced traceability and due diligence.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2024

We fund climate technology startups. There is a growing recognition that severe environmental damage resulting from acts such as large-scale pollution, deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, and blanket bombing, can also constitute international criminal crimes already on the books, such as crimes against humanity, or war crimes.

Law

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Read the full story from Kaunas University of Technology. Deforestation has remained a significant issue globally, with primary forests contributing to 16 per cent of the total tree cover loss in the last two decades, driven by climate change and intensive human activity.

Technology

HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

While the pandemic has impacted my own research and those of my colleagues, the conservation community has been able to adapt quickly with new technologies to keep long-term monitoring and conservation activities alive. GLAD deforestation alerts (in pink) helped track the creation of a logging road in Peru.

Technology

A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

Practically all of them are Chinese, with cutting-edge technology. A recent study co-authored by Flach published in World Development shows that deforestation, especially of the Amazon and Cerrado, increases the temperatures and reduces local rainfall, drying out the soil and harming agribusiness. billion a year. Taxing the sun.

Solar Power

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”. Green technology and growth: a vision we can believe in. I think we’re pushing on an open door.

Climate Change

Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

A more efficient food source The review highlights the current technologies for commercially developing and growing microalgae, as well as the scientific and economic challenges to scaling production.

Biotechnology

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Governmental policies established as a result of commitments made in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement have already successfully prevented the emissions of several Gigatons of CO 2 , targeting deforestation, energy efficiency, new technology deployment, and carbon accounting as their main mitigation efforts.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

All of that is changing – the price is dropping as the technology improves, cheaper and more efficient catalysts and processes are being invented, and efficiency and size are improving. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ). Governments are providing incentives, and the industry is progressing.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. On land, proposals to plant trees and develop bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) are seen as competing with global food security and possibly worsening deforestation.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I also explore alternatives like expanding production of and inventing new battery technologies with fewer critical minerals and reducing car usage by increasing public transit and walking through equitable urban planning. Nickel mines can cause deforestation and water and soil contamination, such as in Claver , Philippines.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

A recent investigation into forest carbon offsets run by Verra, the world’s leading offsetting certifier, and used by companies including Disney, Shell and Gucci found that 94 percent of offsets bought through Verra failed to reduce deforestation or were for forest areas where deforestation wasn’t happening anyway.

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 10, The GIANT Company announced a $1 million donation to Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in support of its new Center for Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability , which will be focused on sustainability and localized sourcing through high-tech food and agriculture.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The attempt by the Brazilian government and its coal industry to find ways to sustain coal mining adds to Brazil’s already worn-out image at COP26 , due to its consecutive wildfires and continuing deforestation , mainly in the Pantanal and the Amazon, and to the reduction of environmental supervision in the country.

2027

Frontiers

JULY 27, 2022

When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. In fact, over two-thirds of our world’s tropical forests have been lost to rampant deforestation for logging, mining, and agriculture. Featuring custom-built technology, artificial ? healthy planet.

Deforestation

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 24, 2023

The thought that technology alone will save us – technosolutionism – prevails in the business community. Wealthy nations have massive meat consumptions and this is a serious problem for biodiversity and deforestation. At best, the climate emergency and the collapse of biodiversity are given an afterthought.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Most commonly the term is associated with the degree of increase in input factors such as energy, fertilizers, pesticides, financial capital, and “technological sophistication” used, irrespective of the actual output or cost-benefit of the system. Josef Settele, Professor of Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research, Dept.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“This [trade-off] demonstrates a proactive approach, as the nation actively pursues renewable energy sources [and] energy efficiency measures over a wide range of sectors and cleaner energy technologies,” says Kumar. Furthermore, in July 2023, India passed a new law that has made it easier to clear forests, including for coal mines.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thousands of people trying to promote new policy ideas, new campaign strategies, new technologies, or new businesses related to climate change are here, taking advantage of the globally influential audience right nearby, the huge global platform, and the opportunity to work out and argue over ideas in the dense primeval soup.

Paris Agreement

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Ideally this will be done without increasing deforestation and consequently decreasing carbon storage. Uncertain future consequences of using this new technology is troubling to many people who believe the risks outweigh the potential benefits. Genetic engineering is only 40 years old.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits. Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S. The question is whether the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Deforestation. The fewer sinks we have, the faster carbon emissions will accumulate in the atmosphere and it seems deforestation is increasing despite international efforts to slow it down and replace more trees than we are cutting down. The 1960s and 1970s. Studying the Effects on Landscapes.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. When policymakers subsidize new technologies, the justification is often the potential that scaling up a new technology will lead to cost reductions over time.

Biofuels

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). Risks to such species include overhunting/overfishing or gathering, toxic waste, a changing environment, deforestation and so on.

Government

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Perhaps even more so than the methane pledge, effort will be needed to ensure the deforestation pledge is met. Unabated fossil fuel projects mean those not mitigated with carbon capture technologies. More of this difficult but important work is needed.

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