Conserving, sustainably using, and restoring biodiversity through investment is vital to achieving many objectives, including human health, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and water and food security.
Climate change is influencing soil negatively, and cleantech can provide the tools for innovative soil management.
Natural capital (clean air, oceans, ecosystems, and minerals on which our goods and services so often depend) is usually quite invisible in the financial decision making of leading companies in the corporate sector. It’s time for more financial institutions to change their perspectives about the importance of natural capital within their financial considerations.
Top economists from Oxford University have this week warned of the danger caused by Ministries of Finance and Treasuries ignoring their dependence on nature, which is in a perilous state of decline, and the potential for businesses and politicians to miss the increasing systemic risks as the natural world around us fails.
In this year of major climate decisions, we need to remember who’s really responsible for global warming and the problems it is causing. Yes, climate change derives from industrial activity, but few of us realize exactly how much. A study called Natural Capital At Risk has now come close to quantifying … [continued]
Congress can while away the hours debating over EPA regulations. It seems to be the plan of some congresspeople who would rather see a broken government than a useful one. However, they should note that a strong majority of Americans support strict limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, even … [continued]
The United Nations Environment Programme released a report yesterday that responds to a 2013 report on the potentially crippling costs of climate change in Africa. At an October meeting in Gabarone last year, the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment endorsed the Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which identified these costs. The new … [continued]
Here are some more top clean power stories from the past few days (and a couple dirty power stories): Clean Power, In General Much More Renewable Energy Could Be Integrated Into US Grid (Solar Love) Energy Transition In The Netherlands (Renewables International) Germany’s Renewables Revolution (Rocky Mountain Institute) SDG&E Announces 5 New Renewable … [continued]
At a nameplate capacity of 114 MW, the two wind farms — in Cupisnique and Talara — will be among the largest in South America outside of Brazil. Peru and neighboring Andean nations are really just beginning to seriously examine and develop their relatively rich base of wind and solar energy resources, which offer a sustainable development path that minimizes depletion of natural capital. […]
