why we need more transparent supply chains? A growing share of countries’ environmental and social impacts occurs abroad; Businesses and shareholders need to identify and evaluate the potential environmental impacts and biodiversity loss of their foreign producers; Individual consumers increasingly ask for the locations and magnitude of the impacts associated with their choices; Contributing to an accountability framework that would trigger higher environmental standards in the specific industry of producing countries.

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LET = Permit Something To Happen I don’t let my kids watch violent movies. Mary’s father won’t let her adopt a puppy because he’s allergic to dogs. Our boss doesn’t let us eat lunch at our desks; we have to eat in the cafeteria. Oops! I wasn’t paying attention while cooking, and I let the food burn. Don’t let the advertising expenses surpass $1000. MAKE = Force Or Require Someone To Take An Action My ex-boyfriend loved sci-fi and made me watch every episode of his favorite show.

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ŽigaMalekaPeter H.Verburgab Department of Environmental Geography, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Available online 23 September 2020. How such local-scale patterns of decision-making can be used to explain land-use change globally is unknown. Using a collection of local studies from a literature review, we studied the contextual conditions of different modes of land-use change decision-making and present global maps of the potential distribution of decision-making in land-use change.

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Few drinks (save tea or coffee) divide the world so spectacularly as beer or wine. There’s no accounting for taste, of course – but there are subtle differences in the way they affect your body and determine your health. Is one more fattening than another? How do their heart benefits compare? And which gives the worse hangover? BBC Future has combed through the data to bust some of the myths surrounding two of the world’s favourite drinks.

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BEER: WHERE DO ALL THOSE FLAVOURS COME FROM? There are thousands of different ways that yeast, malt, and hops that can be combined to make beer, and all those combinations can lead to lots of interesting outcomes. There are also a LOT of additives you can put in beer to give it different flavours, but I’m going to focus on the core ingredients: yeast, hops, and malt. Yeast Yeast is a fungus.

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You can change your nudge increments distance in the Preferences Panel(Keyboard increments). Setting nudge distance/keyboard increment Uncheck snap to pixel in the view tab Change the keyboard increment in the Edit tab ->preference from 1 pixel(by fault) to a tiny one which you want. Tip also: the super nudge is a 10-times shift by holding the shift when using the arrow key.

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Kai Li (李锴)

PhD candidate of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University

Leiden University

the Netherlands