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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. Thus, this lack of reciprocity denies the future individuals the moral status.

Ethics 247
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Obituary: Climate science pioneer and former IPCC chair Sir John Houghton

Business Green

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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Britons put planet before profit in their personal savings and expect more action from pension funds and banks, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

Law 100
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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

COP 93
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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Erica Mackie, P.E. – CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.