Showing posts with label soil health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil health. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 August 2020

WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19: Video


The WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19 lists six steps to create a healthier , fairer  and greener world while investing to maintain and resuscitate the economy. 
 

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

A dire opportunity: rural communities in the face of climate change: CRA

Another key element from all of the reports mentioned here is the need for negative emissions through soil health
Soil Health - Decarbonisation
"So, how far behind are we, and how much do these new reports change the conversation? In 2017, James Hansen, who is a native Iowan and one of the top climatologists in the world, published a report with some updated figures. We have already warmed the world beyond 1° C and have enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to commit ourselves to at least 1.3° C. To stay at or below 1.5° C would mean keeping atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to 350 parts per million (ppm) or lower, hence the name of the activist group 350.org. We crossed the threshold of 400 ppm in 2013.