NAEP Leadership Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

As environmental professionals we have seen first-hand global deforestation, air and toxic waste pollution, groundwater contamination, urbanization gone of its natural surroundings, and many social inequities and injustice.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

Food production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste account for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions. While France was the only one whose NDC included comprehensive measures to reduce food loss and waste. Similarly, none of the plans assessed includes specific measures to promote healthy and sustainable diets. .

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 22, 2024

This is a Guest Blog Post by Andrew Jennings Every year, up to 170 million birds migrate or breed in Alberta’s Peace-Athabasca Delta region, home to the infamous tar sands and their tailings ponds – huge lakes of toxic waste produced by the oil extraction process.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed come in the form of a denial: the EPA is recommending against a permit for disposing dredged material and mine waste in the watershed around the ore deposit. Such activities could include water pollution from illegal gold mining, deforestation, and drug cultivation.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

The report, issued in conjunction with EAT Forum, also called for curbing food waste, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, and improving agriculture so it lessens deforestation and reduces water use. Reduce food waste. Livestock require huge amounts of land and water and produce harmful methane.

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AAEE

MAY 21, 2020

With rising pollution levels, deforestation, and more, environmental engineers are someone who can help reduce the risk and safeguard the environment. They aren’t your ordinary nature lovers.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

Devastating forest fires, record-breaking carbon emissions, and the warmest ocean temperatures on record are just a few of the issues we’ve seen escalate, alongside rising deforestation, pollution, and plastic production. These challenges cannot be ignored. Any organic leftovers will go to a biogas station initiative of the venue.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 7, 2020

As background, my new book, Apocalypse Never , is a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, and other major environmental topics. It has been praised by a large number of the world’s leading climate and environmental scientists and scholars.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 14, 2020

Apocalypse Never contains chapters on climate change, deforestation, species extinction, plastic waste, meat, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels, poverty, and much more. I decided to broaden its focus last year in response to the increasingly apocalyptic claims being made about climate change, deforestation, and species extinction.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

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. This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

Indeed, while climate variability and moisture losses on a global level are a major source of concern, human activities, such as deforestation, overgrazing, cropland expansion and unchecked population growth, are making an already worrisome situation even worse. Traveling for 10 to 15 km will make it [the cattle] lose weight.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

Stop deforestation In many countries of the global South, people are still deforesting as a mean to make money. Change agriculture and the way we eat Wasting less food and eating much less meat are two very powerful ways to slow down and halt climate change. Cutting this would help limit global warming by a huge half a degree.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2018

Industry too has to transform itself to shift away from its current take, make, waste model. Deforestation has to be put to an end and we need to reforest and afforest globally. The way we use land also matters tremendously. This in turn brings us all naturally to how we feed ourselves.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Deforestation, air and water pollution, and lack of sanitation systems have led to public health problems and resource scarcity. This is troubling because these issues are two of the country’s largest environmental issues, along with deforestation, soil erosion, and the lack of clean water.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. The companies involved also pledged to cut their emissions as part of this initiative.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Deforestation and environmental destruction are still a reality in many countries around the world. This represent huge amounts of land, energy, time, water and other resources that just go to waste. But if we need to waste less, we also need to eat differently, and eat much less meat. We need to do a whole lot more.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climate change drastically. Already employing over 300,000 people globally , the sector sustainably harnesses various waste streams and turns them into valuable products and revenue streams, closing the loops of many systems.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From 2000 to 2015, Indonesia lost an average of 498,000 hectares of forest annually, making it the world’s second-largest driver of deforestation after Brazil. Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The rich mangrove forest here is considered to be the city’s lungs and is in need of protection from issues like deforestation, coastal erosion and plastic pollution. This cleanup is not a one-off event but part of Ocean Conservancy’s ongoing efforts to support Vietnam’s National Action Plan for Plastic Waste Management through 2030).

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After taking the time to finally grab a late lunch I enjoyed some of the scattered artwork around the conference rooms and then headed to my next session which was on the topic of the Global Methane Pledge specifically in relation to methane emissions from the waste sector.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2017

Greening the supply chain will eventually cut waste, and thus, costs. And with the global population projected to swell to 9.5 billion consumers by 2050, it is clear there is not just a crucial opportunity for businesses to meet growing global demand, there is also a real need to protect the planet.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 24, 2023

Heat pumps are a great tool at our disposal but one should not forget about geothermal, cogeneration, district heating, waste-to-energy… All these solutions have to be adapted massively as well if we are decarbonize the way we heat our homes, offices, hospitals and countless of other buildings.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily. Laid end to end, those bottles would stretch 5.6 million kilometres – enough to circle the globe 70 times.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily. Laid end to end, those bottles would stretch 5.6 million kilometres – enough to circle the globe 70 times.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  In 2019, Nestlé recorded over 1,000 cases of deforestation daily. Laid end to end, those bottles would stretch 5.6 million kilometres – enough to circle the globe 70 times.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The boundaries range from climate change to the biosphere and deforestation , and from pollutants & plastic to nitrogen cycles and freshwater. This is the first time this exercise has been carried out. The current status of the nine Planetary Boundaries. Graphic credit: PIK.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Emissions, waste, batteries, asphalt, concrete, rainwater runoff, disturbing and killing wildlife, water pollution, and deforestation are examples of such costs. As for the environmental costs, highways and vehicles have a huge ecological footprint when compared to other modes of transportation.

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Global Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A reclaimed wood piece of furniture is a great option that helps limit things like deforestation. Purchase dish detergents that come in a refillable container to reduce waste and trash and verify that they are palm oil-free. General Household. Anything certified as being 100% organic and vegan is a great choice.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. When UNEP provides technical advice on issues as diverse as ecosystem fragmentation, circularity, and food waste, it is for nature. Making agriculture biodiversity positive.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. Filtration : Removing solid waste and material from water in the process of wastewater treatment. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own. Often, measures will include a ban on government contracts.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

For instance, when the Brazilian Amazon reached a peak of deforestation in 2004, strong command-and-control policies were put in place, carrying strong sanctions for municipalities and farmers to comply with legislation. Josef Settele, Professor of Animal Ecology and Social-Ecological Research, Dept. Is that the wrong picture?

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Environment Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

Focus on a small issue that they can’t really disagree with – plastic waste or deforestation – and aim to get them to agree to a small change like starting to recycle or using a reusable water bottle. You don’t need to radically change someone’s perspective to make the exchange a success.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

In Mexico , the Biosphere Reserve Sierra Gorda faces excessive logging, fires, and deforestation for tourist housing. In the Himalayas, a study conducted for ecotourism revealed that locals suffered from increased waste generation and water pollution.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It had been widely known thanks to various travel volumes that deserts were anything but lifeless wastes. Its continued expansion has been put down to increased carbon emissions, agricultural activity and deforestation. One of the earliest remits of the United Nations was conservation. Australasia: Gibson Desert (Semi-Arid).

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And inevitably, these plants lead to more logging.Industrial wood pellet plants in other areas have led to increased logging and deforestation they cannot produce the amounts of pellets they need for export using wood waste and sawdust alone. Unfortunately, taxpayers are subsidizing this false solution.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A duty imposed for more directly attributable pollution under The Pact, such as deforestation or oil spills, may be easier to define and therefore to enforce on corporations. But liability for climate-induced damage is complex, due to issues of attribution and causation. Professor, Columbia Law School.

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