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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. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C

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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. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa. Wangari Matthai of Kenya, the first environmentalist to win a Noble Prize.