tag > Regenerative
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International collaboration reveals China's carbon balance (phys.org)
An international team of researchers has compiled and verified newly available data on the country's CO2 sink, and, for the first time, they have quantitatively estimated the effect of China's carbon mitigation efforts.
Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data (Nature)
Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated' (BBC)
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Global warming: agriculture and water conflicts in Central Asia (versionverte mag)
Central Asia is one of the major agricultural producers in the world. Agriculture in this region is based on crops with high water demand such as cotton, despite its predominantly arid climate and the global warming to which it is particularly exposed.
The limited role of industrial ecology in mitigating climate change (versionverte mag)
Despite progress, industrial ecology still plays a somewhat limited role in the problem of climate change by acting at the level of decision-making in terms of climate change mitigation via quantitative indicators of environmental performance.
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Norwegians Got Paid To Use Electricity As Prices Fall Below Zero
"Electricity prices in Norway fell below zero for the second time in history early on Monday, and residents in southern Norway ‘got paid’ for using electricity as power producers have to pay to sell electricity when prices are negative."
#Comment: If this pattern became permanent, how long do you think until the folks currently controlling power would pass on the savings? Or would they keep quiet - just for fun?
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From Big Six to Big Four (2019)
OECD study sheds light on concentration and competition in seed markets.
The Big Six, as described in the wiki on DuPont
"On the other hand, if Monsanto and Bayer, the 1st and 3rd largest biotech and seed firms, together with Dow and DuPont being the 4th and 5th largest biotechnology and seed companies in the world respectively, both went through with the mergers, the so-called "Big Six" in the industry would control 63% of the global seed market and 76% of the global agriculture chemical market."
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Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops
Exxon number of employees: 74,900 (2019). How long until bankruptcy?
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Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage – 2020 (Lazard)
Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 14.0) shows that as the cost of renewable energy continues to decline, certain technologies (e.g., onshore wind and utility-scale solar), which became cost-competitive with conventional generation several years ago on a new-build basis, continue to maintain competitiveness with the marginal cost of selected existing conventional generation technologies.
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Zoom Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil (forbes)
#Comment: The end of the oil age is finally here. Once this rally picks up speed, anything and everything deeply invested in the old fossil fuels economy will be trending towards zero. (and no, Zoom is not magically becoming more valuable - its over hyped commodity software)
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The cheapest climate solution? Return half of the planet to nature, this scientist says
In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a gut-wrenching 68% of species since 1970.
The solution is protecting habitat: specifically, 50.4% of the earth’s land, according to the team of scientists led by Eric Dinerstein, wildlife scientist and director of the research organization RESOLVE. That’s a major increase from the 15.1 percent of land area currently protected.
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Daycares In Finland Built a 'Forest Floor,' and It Changed Children's Immune Systems
Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to a small new experiment. When daycare workers in Finland rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth such as dwarf heather and blueberries, and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on the skin of young kids appeared healthier in a very short space of time. Compared to other city kids who play in standard urban daycares with yards of pavement, tile and gravel, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds at these greened-up daycare centers in Finland showed increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood within 28 days.
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Researchers unveil roadmap for a carbon neutral China by 2060
Three weeks after China told the world it is aiming for carbon neutrality, an important study outlines a roadmap to that goal, and challenges along the way.
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Artificial Intelligence Reveals Hundreds of Millions of Trees in the Sahara
If you think that the Sahara is covered only by golden dunes and scorched rocks, you aren’t alone. Perhaps it’s time to shelve that notion.
Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth
An analysis of satellite images has pinpointed individual tree canopies over a large area of West Africa. The data suggest that it will soon be possible, with certain limitations, to map the location and size of every tree worldwide.
How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert
Amid the success of the Serapium Forest, a massive plantation in Egypt, the country is now looking to plant more desert lands with trees as part of plans to fight climate change.
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World’s biggest wind and solar producer now worth more than ExxonMobil
In yet another sign of the pace of the global energy transition – and the massive switch taking place in the investment community – the market value of company that describes itself as the world’s biggest producer of wind and solar power, US utility NextEra, has overtaken that of what used to be the world’s most valuable company, oil major ExxonMobil. The flip occurred last last week, when NextEra overtook ExxonMobil to become the largest energy company in the US by market value.
Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
Internal projections from one of world’s largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming
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The early signs of incoming economic system changes
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It's That Easy! - A Decade-by-Decade Guide to Saving Civilization
