Avainsana: ecosystems
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The Montreal Biodiversity Convention paints concrete goals – one third of the Earth’s surface to be protected
At the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, they managed to agree on global goals for the protection of biodiversity. Montreal was a continuation of the meeting in Kunming, China, which I wrote about earlier. The agreement and its goals are a similar and equally significant institution as the Paris climate agreement, and its numerically…
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Climate change today and the path from extreme disaster to sustainable balance
It finally came to this because of humanity’s greed: A couple of friends in India said that there has been no monsoon for three years and half of the palm leaves have turned yellow and died. A friend in Italy says that local people don’t go out there at all because of the scorching heat.…
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Systems thinking in environmental sciences – nothing is isolated in nature
Systems thinking is all about relationships, how the parts together affect the whole and trends, changes and problems. By analyzing these, we find solutions. People often want to simplify things, but in reality nature is very complex. Systems thinking is very important in environmental science. First of all, natural systems are very complex in their…
Ecoblogi - A Blog by Daniel Elkama 