“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 …
Act!on Agriculture Bulletin – Vol. 170 No. 5 – COP 24 Act!on Agriculture – Summary
“Ethical Markets applauds this wider-ranging discussion on the urgent need to reform today’s global unsustainable agriculture and its peril to our food supply, climate goals, biodiversity and human health. These panelists at COP 24 touch on all the important reforms needed: agroecology, protecting forests, lands, biodiversity, as well as indigenous …
Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans
Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181210101909.htm Barely living ‘zombie’ bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth’s subsurface — 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of …
CLARA Full Report” Missing Pathways to 1.5 C “
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this ground-breaking report on how to reform human land-use practices and our unsustainable food system to best achieve climate stability and more equitable societies. This report confirms much of our own research in our annual GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® reports since 2009. Our current 2018 report: “Capturing …
WRI Digest: COP24 | How to Feed the World | CO2 Rising | Yellow Vests
“Ethical Markets welcomes this innovative, systemic report on how to reform our planetary food system for the future. However, it still misses the lowest-hanging fruit, on which we report in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard, 2018 : ‘CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH’, which includes most of WRI’s …