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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

In some areas, including the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central and eastern Asia, and western North America, droughts are becoming more common and severe due to climate change, which also increases the probability of fires occurring and total burned area in some parts of all continents. Flooding in 2019 destroyed her house.

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Washington D.C.-based

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Collective interest should spur us to deliver at COP27

Business Green

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And they could see the effects of our warming world around them. Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. degrees, that human activity is unequivocally to blame, and that we were on track to breach the 1.5

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How Europe can lead the way in transitioning oil and gas to geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. Henning is member of LAWASIA since 2006 and the Chairman of the Asian-European Subcommittee since 2016. degrees Celsius of global warming. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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