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It provides detailed evidence of inflated carbon baselines, lack of additionality, and social harms across Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Key examples include REDD+ projects in Zimbabwe and Gabon that overestimated carbon savings, and soil carbon initiatives in the US and Kenya that threaten food sovereignty and traditional livelihoods. 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These environments can be used by malign actors for emotional manipulation, recruitment through immersive propaganda, and the creation of virtual training scenarios for real-world attacks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"isdglo-000089#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The convergence of decentralised webs, LLMs, and XR creates interdependent risks where the strengths of one technology exacerbate the harms of another, potentially leading to more visceral and extreme impacts on users.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"isdglo-000089#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Current regulatory frameworks face significant enforcement challenges with decentralised platforms because there is often no central authority to hold accountable. 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It highlights a lack of transparency regarding supply chain methane emissions and recommends that companies set absolute reduction targets aligned with a 1.5°C limit, establish separate methane targets, reduce animal numbers in supply chains, and support sustainable diet policies.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"chanmar-000214#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"A study of 15 of the largest meat and dairy companies found their combined methane emissions are approximately 12.8 million tonnes, which is more than 80% of the European Union's total methane footprint, 3.4% of all global anthropogenic methane emissions, and 11.1% of livestock-related methane worldwide.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"chanmar-000214#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Fonterra's methane emissions are estimated at roughly 0.5 million tonnes, accounting for 43% of its overall greenhouse gas emissions (30.9 mt CO2e) using GWP100 factors, or 69% using GWP20 factors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"chanmar-000214#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a systemic lack of transparency in the industry, as none of the 15 companies examined disclose methane emissions from their supply chains, and only nine of the 15 report any level of overall greenhouse gas emissions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"chanmar-000214#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["methane emissions","greenhouse gas emissions","Scope 3","carbon neutrality"],"geography_discussed":["New Zealand","European Union","Germany"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["corporate accountability","emissions estimation"]},{"id":"iisd-000461","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/iisd-000461","title":"A Global Deal to Tackle Harmful Fisheries Subsidies: A look behind the scenes","publisher":{"name":"International Institute for Sustainable Development","organization":"international-institute-for-sustainable-development"},"document_type":"case study","language":"en","date_published":"2022-12-06","source_url":"https://www.iisd.org/articles/success-story/fisheries-subsidies-deal-behind-scenes","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"In June 2022, the WTO's 164 members reached a historic agreement to tackle harmful fisheries subsidies, marking the first multilateral trade deal centered on environmental sustainability. The process involved over 20 years of negotiations and was supported by a combination of impartial technical policy advice from the IISD and high-ambition advocacy from The Pew Charitable Trusts. To create external pressure, the 'Stop Funding Overfishing' campaign was launched, eventually gathering 182 signatories, including the World Wildlife Fund and Oceana. The final agreement, adopted at the Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12), includes prohibitions on subsidies for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, fishing of overfished stocks, and fishing on the unregulated high seas. To ensure future progress, the deal includes a clause stating the agreement expires if a more comprehensive deal is not reached within four years of entry into force.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, concluded on June 17, 2022, is the first multilateral trade deal to place environmental sustainability at its core.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The agreement establishes a legally binding framework that prohibits subsidies for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the fishing of overfished stocks, and vessels fishing on the unregulated high seas.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To reach a final consensus at MC12, members agreed to a trade-off where the prohibition on overfishing subsidies was removed for now, but the entire agreement will expire if a more comprehensive deal is not achieved within four years of its entry into force.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The 'Stop Funding Overfishing' campaign, supported by IISD and Pew, built a coalition of 182 signatories, including major organizations like the World Wildlife Fund, Oceana, and the Friends of Ocean Action, to provide external pressure on WTO members.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IISD fisheries team supported the negotiations between 2019 and 2022 through over 100 activities, including 14 reports and 67 events, focusing on providing impartial technical advice to WTO members.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Singapore was the second WTO member to ratify the agreement and the first coastal state to do so.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-000461#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["Sustainable Development Goals","trade policy"],"geography_discussed":["Switzerland","New Zealand","Singapore","Kazakhstan","Geneva"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study"]},{"id":"costratri-000240","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/costratri-000240","title":"Pathogen Early Warning: A Progress Report & Path Forward","publisher":{"name":"The Council on Strategic Risks","organization":"the-council-on-strategic-risks"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2022-12","source_url":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ImprovePathogenEW-2022.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report argues that while COVID-19 accelerated the deployment of biosurveillance tools, current systems remain too focused on specific known threats and lack the integration needed for true early warning. 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Evidence from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) indicates a single well could produce an estimated 36 MW, which is \"five to ten times that of a typical 3-5 MW commercial geothermal well today.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Preliminary cost models suggest that mature superhot rock energy could be cost-competitive with natural gas plants, with an estimated levelized cost of energy (LCOE) between $20 and $35 per megawatthour (MWh).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Commercialization requires overcoming several engineering challenges rather than scientific breakthroughs. Key needs include \"rapid ultra-deep drilling methods, heat-resistant well materials and tools, and deep heat reservoir development in hot dry rock.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To reach resources at depths of 15 km or more, the industry needs to move beyond mechanical rotary drilling to contactless energy drilling methods, such as plasma drilling and millimeter wave drilling, to reduce the need for time-consuming \"trips\" to change drill bits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Induced seismicity is a risk in engineered geothermal systems, but the report notes that rock in the \"brittle-ductile transition zone\" (BDT) at 400°C may have plastic-like properties that make it \"less likely to generate seismic activity from injection operations.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report argues that the oil and gas industry's expertise in directional drilling, drilling mechanization, and horizontal well patterning is essential for scaling superhot rock energy and provides a \"pivot opportunity\" for fossil energy companies to transition.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-001208#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["geothermal energy","energy transition","Levelized cost of energy"],"geography_discussed":["Iceland","Japan","Italy","New Zealand","Mexico","France","South Korea","Switzerland","Russia","Slovakia","People's Republic of China","Indonesia","Oregon"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["techno-economic assessment","technology roadmap"]},{"id":"chanmar-000123","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/chanmar-000123","title":"Emissions Impossible","publisher":{"name":"Changing Markets Foundation","organization":"changing-markets-foundation"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2022-11","source_url":"https://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Emission-Impossible-Full.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report finds that 15 major meat and dairy companies produce combined methane emissions of 12.8 million tonnes, representing 11.1% of global livestock-related methane. 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