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Human activity has transformed between a third and a half of the land surface of the planet. • Most of the world’s major rivers have been dammed or diverted. • Fertilizer plants produce more nitrogen than is fixed naturally by all terrestrial ecosystems. • Fisheries remove more than a third of the primary production of the oceans’ coastal waters. •

governments and society respond, increasing pressures from investors and employees are changing global business attitudes, with the most exposed sector, insurance, showing perhaps the deepest concern. The largest of the world’s reinsurers, providing insurance policies to thousands of other insurers, Munich Re has stated that a two degree warmer wor

I’m also following some companies that are developing synthetic alternatives to palm oil so we don’t have to cut down so many forests to make room for palm plantations.

enteric fermentation of ruminants (ca. 30% of anthropogenic CH4 emissions), natural gas and oil systems (18%), landfills (12%), wetland (paddy) rice cultivation (10%), wastewater (9%), coal mining (6%) and livestock manure (4% according to USEPA

Because of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases, the planet has been, for generations, re-radiating slightly less energy that it has been receiving from the Sun. By 2020, the net value of this difference was about 2 watts per square meter compared to the 1850 baseline.[53] Because oceans have an enormous capacity to absorb atmospheric heat

an overall CH4 leakage of around 1.4%,

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