UK industry leaders come together to cut soybeans linked to deforestation and conversion by 2025 – Mágica Mistura を from supply chains

  • Leading brands, including Tesco, Nestlé United Kingdom and Ireland, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s, KFC United Kingdom and Ireland, Morrisons and McDonald’s United Kingdom and Ireland, signed the UK Soy Manifesto
  • Commitment means that UK signatories commit to buying deforestation-free soy, protecting forests and valuable native vegetation
  • Signatories represent about 60% of all soybeans purchased in the UK each year 

Source: UK industry leaders come together to cut soybeans linked to deforestation and conversion by 2025 – Mágica Mistura を from supply chains

Leaf Carpet

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Wednesday last I enjoyed shuffling along a forest carpet along the South Rim Trail of Taughannock Falls Park. It is a lost pleasure now the first snow is with us.

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Things You Should Unlearn As An Adult

Fire of Moods

Full-time Adulting Now that I’ve been subscribed to the full-time package for adulting for almost a decade I feel like I can part some wisdom on you younger bloggers out there. I’m not sure why I said that but it sounded cool in my head so I will be leaving it in. Back in my […]

Things You Should Unlearn As An Adult

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COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

  • With the U.N. climate summit (COP26) in its second week, Earth is on track to warm by 2.7° Celsius (4.86° Fahrenheit) by 2100, a catastrophic forecast based on projected carbon emissions. However, analysts say that those projections exclude major emissions currently escaping from biomass-burning power plants.
  • A carbon accounting loophole in global climate change policy classifies burning woody biomass for energy as “carbon neutral,” and is accepted by the U.N. and many of the world’s nations. But scientists have proven otherwise, even as the forestry industry gets massive subsidies to produce millions of tons of wood pellets annually.
  • Those subsidies are fueling rapid growth of the biomass industry, as forests are cut in the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, Russia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The E.U. and U.K. are the largest biomass energy market, but with rapid expansion now occurring in Japan and South Korea, the biomass boom is just beginning.
  • Scientists and activists say that to avoid disastrous global warming impacts, forest large biomass subsidies must end, which will make the industry unprofitable and free up funding for real climate solutions. But the topic is not even on the COP26 agenda, and action on the biomass burning issue anytime soon seems unlikely.

Representatives from 192 nations continue meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, at COP26 this week in hopes of making deals to save humanity, cool the planet, and salvage their nations’ reputations.

However, absent from the conference agenda are discussions of carbon accounting loopholes that scientists say are dangerously underreporting emissions and speeding climate change. An overlooked issue is forest biomass: burning wood to produce energy. Despite research proving otherwise, the practice continues to be called carbon neutral by nations and the forestry industry, allowing significant greenhouse gas emissions to go uncounted.

Source: COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

COP-26: I diritti fondiari degli indigeni devono essere rispettati ora per aiutare a mitigare il cambiamento climatico! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Txai Suruí

«I popoli indigeni sono in prima linea nell’emergenza climatica e noi dobbiamo essere al centro delle decisioni che si prendono qui. Abbiamo idee per posticipare la fine del mondo.»

  • Txai Suruí, attivista indigeno brasiliano di 24 anni

Txai Suruí ha aggiunto che gli calendari annunciati al tavolo dei negoziati della COP-26 dai funzionari del governo per ridurre le emissioni di carbonio e diminuire l’uso di combustibili fossili erano gravemente inadeguati.

«Limiteremo l’emissione di promesse false e irresponsabili, porremo fine all’inquinamento delle promesse vuote e lotteremo per un futuro e un presente vivibili.

Non è nel 2030 o nel 2050», lei disse, «È adesso.»

La foresta pluviale amazzonica è la più grande foresta pluviale della Terra ed è essenziale per regolare il clima del mondo.

L’Articolazione dei Popoli Indigeni del Brasile (APIB) ha affermato che «Ci opponiamo a soluzioni false basate su innovazioni tecnologiche progettate dalla stessa logica di…

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Autoconvocação para a Assembleia Mundial sobre a Amazônia e a Crise Climática — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

Barbara Crane Navarro

Não há solução para a crise climática sem a Amazônia. A Amazônia está à beira do colapso, devido às atividades predatórias de corporações agropecuárias, monoculturas, plantio de sementes transgênicas, agrocombustíveis, mineração legal e ilegal, extração e derramamento de petróleo, biopirataria e megaprojetos hidrelétricos, mega infraestruturas, tráfico de drogas e crime organizado. Esta terça-feira 9 de[…]

Autoconvocação para a Assembleia Mundial sobre a Amazônia e a CriseClimática — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

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COP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19 billion pledge to save the Amazon – Open Democracy —

Barbara Crane Navarro

COP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19bn pledge to save the Amazon – Open Democracy https://ift.tt/3wqB2P6 COP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19bn pledge to save the AmazonOpen Democracy Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

COP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19bn pledge to save the Amazon – Open Democracy —

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Moderna and U.S. at Odds Over Vaccine Patent Rights – The New York Times

“Moderna wants exclusive ownership and control of this patent,” Mr. Morten said. “They want to be the only organization that decides where mRNA-1273 is made, how it’s made, who makes it, what price it’s sold for. And co-ownership of this patent is a threat to that control.”

The story of the public-private collaboration has been one of the few bright spots of the pandemic. The three government scientists — especially Dr. Corbett, who emerged as a role model for young Black women in science and has worked to address vaccine hesitancy in minority communities — have been hailed as heroes.

Moderna, a young company that had never before brought a product to market, became a household name virtually overnight. The vaccine is on track to bring in up to $18 billion in revenue for Moderna this year. The company has already booked deals for next year worth up to $20 billion. Sales of its vaccine both this year and next are likely to rank among the highest in a single year for any medical product in history.

Dr. Graham, who was the Vaccine Research Center’s deputy director before his retirement, began his work on coronaviruses long before the pandemic. In 2017, he led a team of researchers, including Dr. Corbett, that figured out how to employ protein engineering to stabilize the spike proteins on the coronavirus before they fuse with other cells.