♻️ Recycling cities for the planet
As the world moves toward greater climate instability, driven in part by the depletion of the world's forests, there has never been a greater urgency to reform the forestry sector. construction. The built environment generates around 40% of carbon emissions, which warm the planet.
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With this in mind, experts say that extending the life of existing structures – making them more efficient – and reusing materials when properties are demolished would offer one of the clearest paths to decarbonizing a sector that alone threatens efforts to maintain the economy. global warming within the limit established in the Paris Agreement.
Check out Bloomberg portal report (*), which shows how this has been done from Japan to the United States.
🇦🇺 Climate change in Australia
Rising temperatures are fueling widespread environmental degradation in Australia and an intensification of natural disasters, warns a government report on the climate changes.
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The climate document indicates that the global warming it is melting ice in mountainous areas of Australia and contributing to ocean acidification and sea level rise.
Furthermore, it points out that average temperatures in Australia have increased by 1,47ºC since records began to be kept in 1910.
Australia has experienced a series of extreme events in recent years that experts link to rising global temperatures: from devastating floods in Sydney to horrific bushfires in the summers of 2019 and 2020.
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“These changes are occurring at an increasing pace,” the report states. “In the last decade there have been unprecedented extremes that have led to natural disasters worsened by man-made climate change,” the text concludes.
🏆 Champions of the Earth
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced the 5 winners of the Champions of the Earth Award 2022.
The UN's highest environmental honor rewards individuals and organizations from various fields, including civil society, academia and the private sector, who are leading the way in their efforts to protect nature.
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In 2022, a record 2,2 nominations were received from around the world. This year's awards highlight efforts to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem degradation globally. This is the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, which began in 2021 and runs until 2030.
The award recognizes individuals and groups who are taking transformative actions to change the world and includes visionaries in three categories: Inspiration and Action, Entrepreneurial Vision e Science and Innovation.
This year, a conservation expert, a business, an economist, a women's rights activist and a wildlife biologist were honored for their transformative actions to prevent, stop and reverse ecosystem degradation.
Check out all award winners of this edition. (UN News)
💰 Pará tests unprecedented million-dollar operation for river conservation
In an innovative action, the Pará wishes to raise R$300 million to R$350 million in debt with goals linked to sustainability process. If successful, the operation could mark the debut of a Brazilian State in this type of financing. (Reset)
According to the Reset portal, the project aims to raise resources in the capital market to strengthen the State's environmental policy, with indicators associated with the conservation of local rivers.
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Initially, the river chosen to be part of the initiative was the São Benedito and its tributary, considered a hotspot of biodiversity on the border with Mato Grosso, between the Amazon and Cerrado.
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