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WHAT''S NEXT?: Oceans, animals, and land are all under threat from climate change and human activities. The effective and efficient conservation of agricultural biodiversity is vital to meeting the global challenges of food and nutritional security for an expanding world population. But, the signs are of continued degradation of our global natural resources and environment.

[New] China has since announced more specific targets, including a 65% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, and to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix to 25%.
[New] Hanoi - Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta in the 2020-2021 dry season will be less severe than in the 2019-2020 dry season, with the highest level expected to be in February and March in Mekong River estuary and in March and April in Vam Co and Cai Lon rivers.
[New] The long-term outlook for natural gas is not good in California, which wants to eliminate most carbon emissions by 2045.
[New] State energy giant PetroChina plans to increase the natural gas output from its shale operations in the Sichuan province twofold to over 22 billion cubic meters in the next five years.
[New] British retail group ASDA will commission more than 300 new BioNGV (Natural Gas for Vehicles) trucks in 2021 to reduce the environmental footprint of its transport activities.
[New] Global coffee demand is expected to triple production by 2050, raising pressure on forests and other habitats in the tropical regions where it's grown as farmers look for new land to till.
[New] China's natural gas output is expected to surpass crude oil production around 2025.
[New] China will begin construction of its new space station in 2021, with the Tianhe module planned to enter Earth orbit in the first half of the year.
[New] The coming year could mark a breakthrough in cooperation between Moscow and Brussels on a broad range of issues related to climate change and environmental protection.
[New] Orbital debris is expected to increase in the coming years as more companies send tiny spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
[New] As global populations grow, and people become wealthier and consume more, that need for new agricultural land is just going to increase, resulting in at least 2 million sq km of new farmland by 2050, and maybe as much as 10 million.
Canadian gas exports to the US have been higher, with an expected net gain over the course of the winter of about 300 mn ft3 / d, while Alberta's shift away from coal to natural gas in the power sector has picked up pace and will continue to do so through 2021 and into 2022.
Appalachian pure-play EQT Corp., Equitrans' largest upstream customer and the Lower 48's biggest natural gas producer, renegotiated its midstream contracts for fee relief in the coming years that kicks in beginning in 2021.
No scientist is expecting anything even close to that this century, but after the Earth surpasses a certain level of warming, ice sheets become less stable and less predictable, with potential tipping points coming into play.
Kunlun Energy Co. will sell a 60% stake in a Beijing natural gas pipeline and a 75% stake in its Dalian LNG company for 40.9 billion yuan to the new state-owned firm known as PipeChina.
The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of their habitat by 2050.
With global coordination and rapid action, it should be possible to provide healthy diets for the global population in 2050 without major habitat losses.
Crude oil production in North Dakota, home to the Bakken shale, is not expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels until late into 2022 due to the demand loss and the growing investor pressure on oil producers over environmental, social, and governance issues.
The downtrend in natural gas production from seven major U.S. producing regions that has persisted for much of 2020 will extend into 2021.
Mountain Valley gets another approval for pipeline construction - Mountain Valley Pipeline gained another 17 miles Thursday in its quest to complete construction of the natural gas pipeline by the end of 2021.
Tens of thousands of satellites are predicted to be launched by other companies in the coming years, and AWS has already built six dedicated ground stations around the globe that will be used to communicate with orbiting systems.

Last updated: 09 January 2021

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