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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

COP 130
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'2020 is a turning point': Top corporates urge Boris Johnson to accelerate climate action

Business Green

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

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Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021

Andrew Winston

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

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

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. The year was 2008. marked a before and after.

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