DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. That's the future our children have to contemplate. And it gets worse.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. Even without political barriers, it’s a costly, destabilizing experience.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Global conflict and geo-political upheaval. Several vital food growing regions in the world, including the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

And given the potential of hydrogen produced from renewable energy - known as green hydrogen - to follow a similarly swift cost-reduction trajectory to that of wind and solar in the coming years, its economic and political impacts could be monumental. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. The red-coded tier, represent very difficult challenges, includes Japan, South Korea, much of Southeast Asia and Europe (including Germany), and some of South America, among others.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

The gold that the Spanish stole from South America didn’t hang around in Spain for very long. When Europeans colonised Africa, they found it difficult to get Africans to work in their plantations if they already had small farms. Banking is perhaps the least trusted of professions (with the possible exception of politics).

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CleanTechnica

JULY 27, 2021

Energy and environment ministers at the Group of 20 meeting of industrialized nations that took place in Naples, Italy, late last week failed to come to a consensus on several key commitments to tackle climate change in their final communique. There were two points in particular that were not agreed upon: one was around phasing […].

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 29, 2021

From their origin in the Horn of Africa, modern humans extended their reach to the frigid plains of Siberia, the torrid deserts of Australia and the humid jungles of South America, learning to thrive in even the harshest environments. By Jeremy Deaton Few species have proved as adaptable as Homo sapiens.

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