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• The patent application represents NTwo Off’s goal to assist in mitigating the environmental impact of agriculture, specifically targeting the reduction of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in wheat farming.
• The patented technology refers to methodologies of effectively mitigating nitrous oxide emissions during wheat cultivation.
• By implementing this innovative approach, NTwo Off hopes to reduce farmers' environmental footprint while enhancing their sustainability of operations.
• NTwo Off has identified and isolated two naturally occurring bacteria species that can reduce N2O emissions under various environmental conditions from wheat roots.

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• Madeleine Bergrahm, The Head of Sustainability at Tacton , will discuss the impending regulations facing North America and the EU, and how CPQ technology is working to streamline these sustainability regulations into the selling of complex products and processes.
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• “Be very worried: Gulf Stream collapse could spark global chaos by 2025” announced the New York Post.
• This latest alarmist rhetoric provides a textbook example of how not to communicate climate science.
• These headlines do nothing to raise public awareness, let alone influence public policy to support climate solutions.

We see the world we describe

• It is well known that climate anxiety is fuelled by media messaging about the looming climate crisis.
• This is causing many to simply shut down and give up — believing we are all doomed and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
• This is also not the first time such headlines have emerged.

The currents are not collapsing (anytime soon)

• The latest series of alarmist headlines may not have fixated on an impending ice age, but they still suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collapse by 2025.
• This is an outrageous claim at best and a completely irresponsible pronouncement at worst.
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been assessing the likelihood of a cessation of deep-water formation in the North Atlantic for decades.
• Other assessments, including the National Academy of Sciences Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises, published in 2013, also reached similar conclusions.

Understanding climate optimism

• Ritchie persuasively argued that more people located in the green “optimistic and changeable” box are what is needed to advance climate solutions.
• More importantly, rather than instilling a sense of optimism that global warming is a solvable problem, the extreme behaviour (fear mongering or civil disobedience) of the “pessimistic changeable” group (such as many within the Extinction Rebellion movement), often does nothing more than drive the public towards the “pessimistic not changeable” group.

A responsibility to communicate, responsibly

• This is only amplified in situations where scientists make statements where creative licence is taken with speculative possibilities.
• Climate scientists have agency in the advancement of climate solutions, and with that agency comes a responsibility to avoid sensationalism.

• The study, in collaboration with uMotif , was based on the novel Manchester Digital Pain Manikin self-reporting app which was used by participants to record their pain.
• Chronic pain, which affects approximately 28 million people in the UK alone, can create a personal and economic burden.
• It is essential to accurately measure pain, know its causes, and estimate its impact on people's lives.
• uMotif Co-founder and Chief Design Officer Ben James ( LinkedIn ) said, "It was an honor for the Digital Pain Manikin app to be used in such an important study.