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Soils: key to unlocking the potential of mitigating and adapting to climate change

Soils constitute the largest store of terrestrial carbon. When managed using Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) techniques, soils can play an important role in climate change adaptation and mitigation and could enhance the provision of ecosystem services by storing carbon (carbon sequestration) and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. The poster contributes to the efforts of…

Soils: key to unlocking the potential of mitigating and adapting to climate change
Facing impossible choices: women bear the brunt of hunger

Eating last and eating least: women suffering the most Overall, 155 million people around the world are living in crisis levels of food insecurity or worse – that is 20 million more than last year. Around two out of every three of these people are going hungry primarily because their country is in war and conflict. Women and girls are disproportionally affected. They…

Facing impossible choices: women bear the brunt of hunger
Rural Women, key for a world free from hunger and poverty

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition. # On average, women make up more than 40 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, ranging from 20 percent in Latin America to 50 percent or more in parts of Africa and Asia. …

Rural Women, key for a world free from hunger and poverty
Governments’ fossil fuel production plans dangerously out of sync with Paris limits

20 October 2021 - The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The report, first launched in 2019,…

Governments’ fossil fuel production plans dangerously out of sync with Paris limits
Today’s kids will live through three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, study says

Published in the journal Science, the findings quantify the “intergenerational inequality” of climate change. ( see the second link to the article) If the planet continues to warm on its current trajectory, the average 6-year-old will live through roughly three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, the study finds. They will see twice as many wildfires, 1.7 times as…

Today’s kids will live through three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, study says