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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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New research reveals ‘megatrends’ that will affect forests in the next decade

Envirotec Magazine

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership appoints Clare Shine as new director

Business Green

Prior to that, Shine worked for over two decades as an independent environmental lawyer and sustainable development consultant for NGOs, governments, and businesses, leading influential projects on biodiversity, climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, and conflict prevention and reconciliation.

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership appoints Claire Shine as new director

Business Green

Prior to that, Shine worked for over two decades as an independent environmental lawyer and sustainable development consultant for NGOs, governments, and businesses, leading influential projects on biodiversity, climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, and conflict prevention and reconciliation.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. World leaders attending the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year are expected to discuss how to operationalize Article 6 going forward. based solutions to climate change.

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Can the private sector make it a super year for nature?

AGreenLiving

Biodiversity crisis is gaining traction in the private sector but a big disparity still exists between knowledge and action on climate and biodiversity. More here: Can the private sector make it a super year for nature?

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What Is ESG and Why Is It Important for Your Business? (+ ESG Image Infographic)

Green Business Bureau

Which is exactly what our economy needs to help mitigate global issues such as climate change, and protect basic human rights. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022, the top risks facing our economy are climate action failure , extreme weather , and biodiversity loss.

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