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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. That sounds so dramatic, but humans have been engaged in practices that are diminishing ecosystems’ capacity to sustain life.

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

DeSmogBlog

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. In 2002, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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