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Making Peace With Nature... UN Report

25/2/2021

 
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This report provides the bedrock for hope. By bringing together the latest scientific evidence showing the impacts and threats of the climate emergency, the biodiversity crisis and the pollution that kills millions of people every year, it makes clear that our war on nature has left the planet broken. But it also guides us to a safer place by providing a peace plan and a post-war rebuilding programme.

By transforming how we view nature, we can recognize its true value. By reflecting this value in policies, plans and economic systems, we can channel investments into activities that restore nature and are rewarded for it. By recognizing nature as an indispensable ally, we can unleash human ingenuity in the service of sustainability and secure our own health and well-being alongside that of the planet.

Making peace with nature is the defining task of the coming decades. We must seize the opportunity presented by the COVID-19 crisis to accelerate change.This year, several major international conferences, including on climate change, biodiversity and desertification, provide an opportunity to increase ambition and action on recovering better and addressing climate disruption. Our central objective is to build a global coalition for carbon neutrality. If adopted by every country, city, financial institution and company around the world, the drive to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 can still avert the worst impacts of climate change. Report available here.

Tesla is Now the World’s Most Valuable Automaker

18/6/2020

 
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​Even in the midst of a pandemic, Tesla continues to reach new heights.
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The company, which began as a problem-plagued upstart a little over 15 years ago, has now become the world’s most valuable automaker – surpassing industry giants such as Toyota and Volkswagen.

This milestone comes after a year of steady growth, which only hit a speed bump earlier this year due to COVID-19’s negative impact on new car sales. Despite these headwinds, Tesla’s valuation has jumped by an impressive 375% since this time last year.

How does Tesla’s value continue to balloon, despite repeated cries that the company is overvalued? Will shortsellers declare a long-awaited victory, or is there still open road ahead?

By Nick Routley, via Visualcapitalist - full article here.

Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times.

17/1/2020

 
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From climate change to species extinction and resource depletion, the damaging effects of modern life are more tangible than ever. Eco-Visionaries examines humankind’s impact on the planet and presents innovative approaches that reframe our relationship with nature. Through film, installation, architectural models and photography, the works in this exhibition interrogate how architecture, art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.

​This timely exhibition brings together international practitioners including Olafur Eliasson Hon RA, Ant Farm, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Andrés Jaque, Tue Greenfort, Unknown Fields, Rimini Protokoll, Virgil Abloh and WORKac, amongst others. Their provocative responses are a wake-up call, urging us to acknowledge and become conscious of our impact on our environment.

Eco-Visionaries is a project initiated by Fundação EDP/MAAT (Lisbon, Portugal), Bildmuseet (Umeå, Sweden), HeK (Basel, Switzerland) and LABoral (Gijón, Spain), in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK) and Matadero Madrid (Madrid, Spain).


Read more here.

Wood Wide Web: New Global Map to Assess Climate Change

17/1/2020

 
Wood Wide Web: New global map to assess climate changeTrees are connected by an underground network of fungi that provide them with nutrients and help share resources between neighbouring trees. This system has been nicknamed the Wood Wide Web.
Now a team of scientists, including Tom Crowther from ETH Zurich and Brian Steidinger from Stanford University, have mapped this network on a global scale. Dr Crowther explains how the new model could help predict and assess climate change, as well as aid forest managers in the restoration of woodlands around the world.

See original article here. Further reading here.

Fight Climate Change For Free With Every Web Search

6/1/2020

 
​Plant trees while you search the web! Ecosia use the profit they make from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most, helping to fight climate change as well as provide other positive ecosystem services. So far Ecosia have planted over 79,000,000 trees at over 9,000 sites. Switch your search engine to ecosia.org or get the free browser extension and plant trees with every search. Find out more here.
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