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Five Ways to Protect Your Business From the Difficulties of Sustainable Sourcing
Date: August 1, 2022
By Chris Bowden, founder and managing director of Squeaky, the marketplace for 100% clean energy. Scope 3 emissions (i.e., emissions produced in an organisation’s supply chain) now account for 80 to 90 percent of the emissions connected with a great deal of end products. Arguably, this makes Scope 3 emissions the most important emissions to...
Miners’ Profits Face an Unusual Foe: Extreme Weather
Date: July 29, 2022
(Reuters) – Heavy rainfalls, withering droughts and other extreme weather patterns across the globe are denting miners’ profits and crimping supply of iron ore, copper and other widely-used minerals as climate change roils yet another industry. It is an unusual situation for companies that have experience operating anywhere in the world, include miles underground and...
‘i Want to Breed Horses, Not Camels’: Hungarian Farmers Battle ‘historic’ Drought
Date: July 28, 2022
By Anita Komuves JASZSZENTLASZLO, Hungary (Reuters) – Andras Eordogh admiringly watches his dozen foals as they frolic and kick up dust on his farm in the scorching summer heat and laments that he will have to sell most of them because of the changing climate in this rural southeast corner of Hungary. The gently-spoken, 66-year-old...
In Canada’s North, Environment-Minded Pope to Get Climate Change Close-Up
Date: July 28, 2022
By Rod Nickel IQALUIT, Nunavut (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with sea ice disappearing fast and permafrost thawing. Francis, who arrives in the capital Iqaluit of predominantly indigenous Nunavut on Friday, is in Canada to apologize in person...
Factbox-Europe Ramps up Coal Imports as Energy Supply Fears Grow
Date: July 26, 2022
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – European buyers have had to temporarily set aside green aspirations in a rush for coal as the region’s energy crisis deepens, ramping up shipments from Australia, South America, Colombia and South Africa while tightening the global market. Russia has resumed pumping gas via its biggest pipeline to Germany after...
Exclusive-Glaciers Vanishing at Record Rate in Alps Following Heatwaves
Date: July 26, 2022
By Emma Farge and Gloria Dickie MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) – From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland’s glaciers. Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in...