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Understanding Blue Carbon Initiatives

Beyond their imminent beauty, coastal areas across our planet, with mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows do many vital things to help us deal with climate change. They protect us from storms and rising seas, stop the shore from eroding, keep coastal water clean, and give a home to important fish and endangered sea creatures. …

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Announcing Environment Next 2023 Awardees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Date: November 16, 2023 Contact: media@environmentnext.org Nonprofit Focused on Solving the Climate Crisis Announces its Inaugural Class of Global Initiative Grantees  Environment Next Will Continue Investing in Innovative Organizations and Individuals That Are Tackling the Global Climate Crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environment Next, a leading nonprofit organization working globally to tackle our …

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Understanding the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in November 2023

Introduction The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP 28, aka Conference of Parties 28, is scheduled to take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12, 2023. This summit gathers all the countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a global treaty initiated …

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Reimagining Ski Resort Sustainability in the Era of Climate Change

Nestled high in the French Alps lies a small family skiing resort, La Sambuy. Since the 1960s, La Sambuy had been a winter wonderland, attracting skiers and, in later years, snowboarders from all corners of the world. However, as the years rolled by, a shadow loomed over this picturesque paradise: the effects of climate change …

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Fossil Fuels are Going the Way of the Dinosaurs

It’s all here! Everything we need to solve climate change exists. Today. It is easy, and not altogether unjustified, to see climate change as just too complex, too big, too unwieldy, or even too controversial to even begin to try to solve.Certainly, the oil and gas industries, lobbyists and faux science think tanks have made …

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Encouraging Climate Stories of 2023

Soaring temperatures, unusually hot oceans, devastating wildfires, catastrophic floods, and the heartbreaking tales of communities impacted. We are more than halfway through 2023, and lately, it’s been challenging to find much positive climate news in the headlines. As we reach both record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low levels of …

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Understanding Carbon Removal vs. Carbon Avoidance Projects

According to the World Resource Institute, “To keep temperature rise within 1.5°C as outlined in the Paris Agreement and prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net-zero carbon emissions by around midcentury, removing and storing as much carbon dioxide from the air as we put into the atmosphere.” (Institute, 2023) …

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Supporting Rainforest Protection in the Amazon Basin of Brazil

According to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) “Protecting the world’s forest is crucial for the climate. Forests absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and can be a source of greenhouse gas emissions when destroyed or damaged.” (UNFCCC, n.d.) Forests are also a crucial part of resilience to the unavoidable impacts of …

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Blame Canada? Maybe, but Wildfires Need Global Solutions

There is a new version of the old South Park classic Blame Canada circulating on line as wildfire smoke has choked cities along the Eastern Seaboard and into the Midwest. While the song is tongue-in-cheek, the fires are in Canada and the responsibility lies with provincial, municipal and federal authorities to deal with them. But Canada is …

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