Environmental Defense Fund - Building a vital Earth for everyone
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Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
WEBSep 18, 2023 — Overfishing is catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover. Overfishing often goes hand in hand with wasteful types of commercial fishing that haul in massive amounts of unwanted fish or other animals, which are then discarded. As a result of prolonged and widespread overfishing, nearly a third of ...
How cap and trade works - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBJan 22, 2020 — Cap and trade is one way to do both. It’s a system designed to reduce pollution in our atmosphere. Cap and trade reduces emissions, such as those from power plants, by setting a limit on pollution and creating a market. The cap on greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming is a firm limit on …
9 ways we know humans caused climate change - Environmental …
WEBMay 9, 2024 — 3. Measuring CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and trapped in ice to find they are increasing, with levels higher than anything we’ve seen in nearly a million years (measurements beginning in the 1950s). 4. Chemical analysis of the atmospheric CO2 that reveals the increase is coming from …
WEBGlobal Warming Potentials (GWPs)/CO 2-equivalent (CO 2 e) and the importance of time horizons There are many different pollutants that contribute to global climate change, and they have varying
This is why fighting climate change is so urgent
WEBThat global warming trend is increasingly disrupting our climate — the average weather over many years. Earth has already warmed by about 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 19th century, before industry started to boom. While we experience the effects, we’re on our way toward 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F) by as early as 2030.
Health effects of air pollution - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBMarch 20, 2020. Around the world, nine out of 10 people breathe unhealthy air. Air pollution is now the biggest environmental risk for early death, responsible for more than 6 million premature deaths each year from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and respiratory diseases. That’s more than the deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
How to reverse the overfishing crisis - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBApr 1, 2019 — Overfishing has dropped 60 percent in federal waters since 2000; and better management is providing more stable fishing jobs and increased revenue. In Belize, Denmark, Namibia, the United States and elsewhere, sustainable management is creating healthier oceans that support more fish, feed more people and improve livelihoods.
Sustainable fishing - Environmental Defense Fund
WEBWhat we’re doing about it: Through policy, technology and financing, we’re empowering fishing communities around the world to take a leading role in protecting ocean ecosystems and promoting sustainable fisheries. Our goal is to ensure that by 2030, fisheries in the world’s top fishing nations are more resilient to climate change.
Plugging orphan wells across the United States - Environmental …
WEBOct 14, 2021 — This legislation, for the first time, allocated $4.7 billion to plug orphan wells across the country and lays the groundwork for reducing the number of unplugged orphan wells going forward. Initial grants totaling $560 million have already been distributed to states and plugging work has started. This legislation will create tens of thousands ...
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