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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Last month, the worst heatwave ever recorded hit Japan. Keith Berry looks down into flooded streets searching for survivors.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year.

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What Abandoning Fossil Fuels Could Look Like in the Arab World

DeSmogBlog

One of the products of that research is a new book of essays , edited by Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, also of the Translational Institute, titled Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. Underlying the book is the unequivocal urgency of moving away from fossil fuels in this part of the world.

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young, mostly female activists that are fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. after releasing the famed book Silent Spring, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa.