Browsing BusinessWorld by Subject "carbon dioxide"

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    • Fight climate change — it's good for your health 

      Garcia, Patricia; van den Hazel, Peter (BusinessWorld, June 1, 2015, on page S1/6)
      Governments often see climate change as too costly to address. In fact, it is too costly to ignore. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO), for example, has linked the prevention of disastrous climate change to ...

    • Protecting the ocean could boost economy by $900B, says WWF 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, June 5, 2015, on page S1/9)
      More than $920 billion could be generated by 2050 and 180,000 jobs created by expanding the ocean's protected zones, according to a study published on Thursday by conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). "Every ...

    • Stemming the tide of plastic pollution 

      Bloomberg (BusinessWorld, July 5, 2018, on page S1/7)
      The European Commission’s proposal to ban plastic straws, plates, cutlery, and drink stirrers, and slash the consumption of many other single-use products, is more than just a nice, novel idea. It’s a step urgently needed ...

    • West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves 

      Thompson, Felicity (BusinessWorld, March 12, 2010, on page S3/8)
      Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ...

    • Whale poo could help seas absorb CO2, say scientists 

      Askin, Pauline (BusinessWorld, April 30, 2010, on page S3/9)
      Whale droppings have emerged as a natural ocean fertilizer which could help combat global warming by allowing the Southern Ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide, Australian scientists have found. New research from the ...

    • Whales under threat as climate change impacts migration 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, December 4, 2015, on page S3/4)
      The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature's most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ...