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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
‘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
Sami reindeer herder Nils Mathis Sara, 60, drives his ATV as he follows a herd of reindeer on the Finnmark Plateau, Norway, June 16, 2018.
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Norway in legal quandary after wind turbines ruled a threat to reindeer herder rights

Future of part of Europe’s biggest wind farm in question as government says case legally, politically complex

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Reuters – Norway faces hard choices over the future of two major wind farms stripped of their licences for jeopardizing the way of life of Sami reindeer herders, but it remains unclear whether they should be dismantled, the energy minister said.  While herders in the Fosen region of coastal central Norway have called for the
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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
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Comment: Emissions report self-serving and built on false assumptions

Reductions won’t happen in a vacuum and producers will adapt their production systems

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In late September, Fertilizer Canada and Meyers Norris Penny (MNP) released their report Implications of a Total Emissions Reduction Target on Fertilizer. That report is a response to the December 2020 federal government announcement that it would “set a national emission reduction target (for 2030) of 30 per cent below 2020 levels from fertilizers and
U.S., EU line up over 20 more countries for global methane pact
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U.S., EU line up over 20 more countries for global methane pact

Move comes as a warm-up for UN summit in Glasgow kicking off Oct. 31

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Reuters – Two dozen countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030 from 2020 levels, giving the emerging global partnership momentum ahead of its launch at the UN climate summit in Glasgow later this fall. Nigeria, Japan and Pakistan are among the 24 new signatories to the Global Methane
Everyone from home buyers to banks to real estate owners will eventually need access to climate-risk data.
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Who wins, who loses from the boom in climate prediction startups?

Land investments, future development and even insurance could hinge on new technology in the future

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Thomson Reuters Foundation – After Hunter Connell’s California hometown of Santa Rosa was partially incinerated in a 2017 wildfire, she vowed to find a way to predict — and ideally prevent — similar climate change-linked disasters. “We needed a way to account for the complexity and interdependence of the environment and climate conditions that lead
“With a binding goal, we ensure that the agricultural sector delivers a historically high reduction... ” – Rasmus Prehn, Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
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Danish farmers required to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

The Nordic nation has some of the most ambitious targets in the world

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Denmark’s agricultural and forestry sector must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent and 65 per cent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a majority in parliament agreed. The new legally binding target is part of the government’s action plan towards reaching 70 per cent reductions by 2030, one of the most ambitious climate goals
Farmer Jay Ruskey, the chief executive of FRINJ Coffee, drives his truck around his farm in California, where he planted coffee trees.
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Wake up and smell the coffee…

Global warming is shifting the Coffee Belt northward

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Reuters – Farmer David Armstrong recently finished planting what is likely the most challenging crop his family has ever cultivated since his ancestors started farming in 1865 — 20,000 coffee trees. Except Armstrong is not in the tropics of Central America — he is in Ventura, California, just 60 miles (97 km) away from downtown Los Angeles.

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