UNEP GEO Bulletin Volume 182 Number 9 | Sunday, 27 January 2019 Summary Report of the Intergovernmental Meeting on the Sixth Global Environment Outlook Summary for Policy Makers 21-24 January 2019 | Nairobi, Kenya Languages: EN (HTML/PDF) Visit our IISD/ENB+ Meeting Coverage from Nairobi, Kenya at: http://enb.iisd.org/unep/geo/6/ The Intergovernmental Meeting on …
UNEP GEO Bulletin – Vol. 182 No. 6 – Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the 6th Global Environment Outlook – Issue #2
“We welcome this GEO Summary for Policy Makers #2 and the statements by Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile, Senegal and many other references in support of the SDGs, as well as that of Co-Chair Paul Ekins. However, we still have yet to see any reference to the need to reform and …
Eat Plants, Save the Planet
“This new report from Lancet Commission’s large group of scientists corroborates the importance of shifting from raising livestock for meat diets, which is proven injurious to both human and planetary health, that we clearly demonstrated in our Green Transition Scoreboard® for 2018: “CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH“ …
Bloomberg Businessweek,”Jeremy Grantham’s $1 Billion Plan to Fight Climate Change ” ,January 21, 2019
“Ethical Markets considers Jeremy Grantham one of a handful of well-recognized major investors who actually understands Earth Systems Science and how our planet functions in relationship to our “mother star“ the sun in creating our food system! Unlike narrower -minded, more myopic investors e.g. Warren Buffett, as well as most …
UNEP GEO Bulletin – Vol. 182 No. 5 – Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the 6th Global Environment Outlook – Issue #1
“Ethical Markets follows closely the crucial work of UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) scientific research on the conditions of our planet, and all the risks and opportunities for long-term human survival and sustainable development, as we re-focus our societies from steering by money-based GDP measures to the holistic longer term …
New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists
“Ethical Markets welcomes this well-documented, full report for the Lancet Commissions “Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems“, (Jan 16, 2019), accessible from this article in The Guardian. I studied the entire 47-page report, with its hundreds of footnotes, since this subject was …
New BCG Report on Sustainability: It’s Time to Plant the Seeds of Sustainable Growth in Agriculture
“Ethical Markets welcomes this Boston Consulting Group’s report which goes as far as it can in breaking new ground on addressing our unsustainable global food system which is teetering perilously on the planet’s 3% freshwater and still reliant on livestock-grown meat responsible for some 18% of CO2 emissions. We have …
Bioenergy crops could be as bad for biodiversity as climate change
Bioenergy crops could be as bad for biodiversity as climate change https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181210165106.htm A large scale expansion in bioenergy crop production could be just as detrimental to biodiversity as climate change itself, according to new research.
Agreement in Poland Advances Climate Action—But Not Enough, EESI
“Ethical Markets joins EESI and the global consensus on reducing CO2 emissions and shifting to cleaner, greener, knowledge-richer circular economies worldwide, as we also reported in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard 2018: “Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition & Health” (now a free download at www.ethicalmarkets.com with our companion TV show …
ScienceDaily: Top Earth Systems Science News
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News A damming trend Snow over Antarctica buffered sea level rise during last century A damming trend Posted: 15 Dec 2018 11:13 AM PST Hundreds of dams are being proposed for Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The negative social and environmental consequences — affecting everything from …