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A 12% switch from monogastric to ruminant livestock production can reduce emissions and boost crop production for 525 million people

Ruminants have lower feed use efficiency than monogastric livestock, and produce higher reactive nitrogen and methane emissions, but can utilize human-inedible biomass through foraging and straw feedstock. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00661-1

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How the health care sector contributes to climate change: a research roundup

The medical system is responsible for a surprisingly large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, and the toll is especially heavy in the U.S. https://journalistsresource.org/home/health-care-sector-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-research/

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A New Tool to Help Co-ops and Condos to Cut Carbon Emissions

Boards can breathe a little easier. A new tool is available to help them answer these questions — and it’s free. It’s called The LL97 Carbon Emissions Calculator, and it’s the brainchild of the nonprofit Building Energy Exchange (BE-Ex) working in tandem with the engineering firm AKF Group. https://www.habitatmag.com/Publication-Content/Bricks-Bucks/2022/A-New-Tool-to-Help-Co-ops-and-Condos-to-Cut-Carbon-Emissions

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How hydrogen power can reduce the sector’s carbon footprint

Circular’s editor Ian Farrell explores how hydrogen-powered refuse collection vehicles could play an important part in lowering the sector’s carbon footprint – not just in the future, but right now. https://www.circularonline.co.uk/features/how-hydrogen-power-can-reduce-the-sectors-carbon-footprint/

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2023 must be the year we act decisively on fossil fuels

It is hard to believe that COP26 was only a year ago. Since that time the world has seen ever more shocking climate impacts, a global energy crisis exacerbated by a war in Ukraine, increasing poverty and food insecurity, and another COP that failed to deliver urgent, science-based action to reduce emissions. https://www.c40.org/news/2023-must-be-the-year/

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Mandatory Reporting of Emissions to Achieve Net-Zero Health Care

he most recent assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that climate change is happening faster than expected and that the window to take action is quickly closing.1 Immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are needed to limit warming to 1.5°C and avert the worst predicted harms https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2210022

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Not everyone aware sustainable diets are about helping the planet

A new study has found that young Brits would be willing to change to a more sustainable diet, but a lack of understanding about what that actually means is preventing many from doing so. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221213121549.htm

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Why Recycling Isn’t the Answer to the Plastic Pollution Problem

Recycling can only get us so far to a sustainable plastic future. The real solution to transforming the plastic economy lies in making less in the first place https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-recycling-isnt-the-answer-to-the-plastic-pollution-problem/

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New solar panel manufacturer to set up in Georgia with 500-MW facility

A brand-new company plans to open a 500-MW solar panel assembly factory in Madison, Georgia, in fall 2023. Adion Solar told Solar Power World it began exploring options to start a facility before manufacturing tax credits were included in the Inflation Reduction Act, intending to supply the commercial market. https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/12/georgia-adion-solar-500-mw/

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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: The Future Of Clean, Limitless Energy

On December 5, U.S. scientists at the National Ignition Facility in California generated more energy from a nuclear fusion reaction than they put in. The experimental result is a massive nuclear energy breakthrough in a century-long quest to unlock the power of the sun on earth. https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/14/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-the-future-of-clean-limitless-energy/?sh=23f976063916

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Can Hybrid Work Really Cut Your Company’s Carbon Footprint?

For many companies, 2023’s top priorities revolve around cutting costs and keeping business going, no matter what curveballs the economy throws in the new year. But the arrival of 2023 also means we are yet another year closer to the 2025 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement https://commercialobserver.com/2022/12/can-hybrid-work-really-cut-your-companys-carbon-footprint/

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Real vs. Fake Christmas Trees: Which is better for the Environment?

Artificial trees can last many years if well cared for, which seems to make them the obvious sustainable choice, but they do have drawbacks https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/real-vs-artificial-christmas-trees

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Time to reduce air pollution

Air pollution leading to lung cancers and other chronic lung diseases on large scale is a serious health issue https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/editorial-page/time-to-reduce-air-pollution

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Companies Can Improve Sustainability By Finding Carbon Emissions Hot Spots Across Their Supply Chains, Accenture Report Shows

Companies need full visibility across their supplier base in order to make significant progress on net zero targets by 2050. However, that visibility is challenged by the fact that nearly two-thirds of upstream Scope 3[1] emissions in supply chains come from suppliers that companies don’t deal with directly, according to a new report by Accenture https://www.emsnow.com/companies-can-improve-sustainability-by-finding-carbon-emissions-hot-spots-across-their-supply-chains-accenture-report-shows/

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Moving Toward Net Zero Carbon Emissions

PETRONAS has been paving ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its hydrocarbon resources guided by aspirations to drag this down to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petronas/2022/12/05/moving-toward-net-zero-carbon-emissions/?sh=7fa50106656a