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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Cole was innovative and persistent, remembers Ralph Nader. In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. and wrote about social justice, had a significant influence on him.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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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

Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish. In addition, adaptation can generate multiple benefits.

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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. This leads to even more another feedback loop! And it will not only be regional.