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A report from the Smart Prosperity Institute says a well-targeted, comprehensive package of policies is needed for the agriculture sector to promote economic growth while reducing environmental harm.
Farmit Manitoba

Debating carbon decrease priorities

There’s discussion among agriculture organizations on how to measure the sector’s contributions

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Glacier FarmMedia – Should agriculture’s decreases in carbon emissions be based on intensity of use per unit of food, or measured in the total volume of reductions? That’s the crux of a philosophical discussion happening in agriculture and showcased by competing reports on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. Why it matters: How
Southern Manitoba’s flooded countryside in spring 2009. Preparation and handling of flood events will be critical in the years to come as the impacts of climate change intensify.
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Comment: Preparation key to flood response

Floods are going to get worse: we need to start preparing for them now

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For many, 2021 was the year of the flood. From Canada to India, and across Western Europe and Australia, this year’s deluges have led to hundreds of deaths, enormous financial costs and immeasurable suffering. Research by myself and others on flood risk around the world shows how changing our perspective on floods can help us
Water rolls over a road and into a field after rainstorms lashed British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Abbotsford November 30.
Weather

Mexico seeks to overhaul Canada migrant farm worker program amid climate disasters

B.C. flooding and heat wave have underscored the vulnerability of these workers

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Mexico is pushing for changes to Canada’s migrant farm worker program, a top Mexican official told Reuters, as migrants beset by natural disasters call for better pay, accessible care, labour mobility and employment insurance. Mexico is renegotiating its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program agreement with Ottawa. The agreement outlines Mexican migrant farm workers’ rights and conditions
‘In our desperate attempt to stop the world warming beyond the internationally agreed limit of 1.5 C, we need to encourage whatever reduces the climate impacts of human activity.’
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Comment: Big-business greenwash or a climate saviour?

Carbon offsets raise tricky moral questions for policy-makers

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Massive protests unfolded in Glasgow outside the United Nations climate summit recently, with some activists denouncing a proposal to expand the use of a controversial climate action measure to meet net-zero targets: carbon offsetting. Offsetting refers to reducing emissions or removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere in one place to balance emissions made in
One day you’re out walking or biking with short sleeves in early November and a couple of days later you’re digging out from a snowstorm. That is weather.
Weather

The difference between ‘climate’ and ‘weather’

This past warm fall was weather; decades of warmer autumns would be climate

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There are a few different weather topics to cover in this issue. You might expect a summary of the first winter storm, but due to the timing of that storm and my deadline, the summary will have to wait until next article. I have also had a few emails coming in asking me to comment
Reducing warming can be addressed in the short term by tackling methane emissions, but long-term climate change needs to focus on carbon dioxide.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Cows and cars should not be conflated in climate change debates

Most studies are failing to capture the diversity in production systems

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With world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, there is much talk of methane emissions and belching cows. The Global Methane Pledge, led by the U.S. and EU and now with many country signatories, aims to reduce methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. This is seen as a “quick win” to
“If you don’t have observations, then you are not able to provide good forecasts.” – WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas.
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Climate change extremes spur UN plan to fund weather forecasting

Large weather data gaps exist around the world, particularly in poorer nations

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Reuters – As climate change triggers deadly heat waves, droughts and floods, three UN agencies will roll out funding plans to improve weather forecasting in vulnerable countries. The initiative, announced at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, aims to plug gaps in weather monitoring and data collection so developing countries can better prepare for possible
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Bank of Canada plans new tools to assess climate impact on economy

Increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events seen in coming years

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Reuters – The Bank of Canada will develop new models and data sources to better understand how climate change is impacting Canada’s economy, and will include these findings in its quarterly forecasts to help markets price risks. The central bank, in a release tied to the UN’s COP26 global climate summit, said it will assess
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).
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COP26: Nations make new pledges to cut methane, save forests at climate summit

Dozens of countries join U.S.-led methane reduction effort, over 100 leaders pledge to halt deforestation by 2030

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Reuters – Leaders at the COP26 climate conference have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change. In the early days of the two-week summit in Glasgow, Scotland, wealthy nations took some overdue actions to provide long-promised financial help
“I smell complete bullshit — it’s a terrible idea.” – Gunter Jochum.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Dollars in the dirt

Big Ag pays farmers for control of their soil-bound carbon

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Reuters – The biggest global agriculture companies are competing on a new front: enticing farmers to join programs that keep atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide in the soil. Fertilizer producers Nutrien and Yara, agribusiness giant Cargill, and seed and chemical companies Corteva and Bayer are paying growers for every acre of land dedicated to trapping carbon underground,

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