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Category: Measuring progress

Digital conferencing. Courtesy of Chris Montgomery, Unsplash

The future of climate conferencing is (click) here

COVID-19 is pushing more and more events into the digital space. Can climate change conferencing retain its efficacy while going online?

 

Is the global media helping or hurting the fight against climate change?

GLF Live with John Vidal and Bill McKibben

 

How do we build science-based narratives?

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How is gaming teaching new audiences about the climate crisis?

GLF Live with Elizabeth Newbury and Alan Gershenfeld

 
A satellite image from the European Space Agency color-codes different vegetative areas, helping inform watering methods to protect agriculture from effects of climate change. European Space Agency, Flickr

Fact-checking Michael Moore, green stimulus and video calls with eels

In this news roundup: Norway divests from oil sands, Michael Moore documentary sparks controversy, and how solar and wind became cheaper than coal and gas.

 
A forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where management plans have grown to now cover 20 million hectares of forests, despite the increasingly rate of forest area loss in Africa. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

4.06 billion remaining hectares, and other new numbers on forests… But what do they mean?

Putting the U.N.'s new Global Forest Resources Asssessment 2020, which breaks down the latest data on forest area, into context.

 
The COVID-19 pandemic. Jernej Furman, Flickr

Negative oil prices, a Korean Green Deal, and face masks from ocean plastic

In this news roundup: Earth Day turns 50 online, nature takes over cities in lockdown, and why clean energy could be worth USD 100 trillion by 2050.

 
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The forward movement of organic and agroecological farming

It’s taken a century to establish the organic foods sector. Now, as climate change increasingly threatens food sources, what role must organics play?

 
An offshore wind farm in North Wales. Doug Scobie, Flickr

Social distancing tips from the platypus, renewable records and enzymatic scissors

In this bi-weekly digest of climate news: long-term costs of climate change revealed, commodity prices wobble, and animals that practice social distancing.

 

How should COVID-19 be used to re-shape broken global systems?

In conversation with renowned author and MIT lecturer Otto Scharmer on how COVID-19 can affect behavior change and be used to re-shape global systems.

 
Facemasks to protect from Coronavirus. Prachatai, Flickr

Coronavirus and carbon emissions, COP 26’s postponement and Venice’s clear waters

In this news roundup: the connections between coronavirus and carbon emissions, oil prices, the ozone layer and where to get carbon-negative hand sanitizer.

 

At the dawn of COVID-19, how did the climate change sector react to the pandemic?

In conversation with Charlotte Streck, co-founder and director of global think tank Climate Focus on COVID-19's effects on continued climate action.

 
Scientific estimates say that standard polyethylene can take 500 years to photodegrade (meaning they degrade when exposed to UV light, as they cannot biodegrade). Conservative estimates go up to 1,000 years for such plastic pollution to disappear. Ars Electronica, Flickr

Bagging it: what’s working in the fight against plastic pollution

Which bans, fines and alternatives are successfully curbing plastic bag use in efforts to fight global plastic pollution.

 

Waste not: New UN-Water report examines the potential of wastewater

New report from the United Nations focuses on rethinking management of wastewater to help mitigate and adapt to climate change.

 
Lee Coursey, Flickr

The fractal nature of almost all things

Understanding nature’s fractals, the patterns the underpin everything from the distribution of galaxies to resilient ecosystems to the human heartbeat.

 

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