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Macquarie eyes coal exit by 2024 as bank ramps up green investment plans

Business Green

Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said. However, Macquarie still plans to continue to fund oil and gas developments. "We

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. Last year, the global deodorant market was valued at $24 billion, and it’s on track to grow to $37 billion by the end of the decade, in part because of global warming, according to the market research firm Fortune Business Insights.

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The Aftermath of Greenhouse Gases

Unsustainable

With all the changes that are happening rapidly to our environment and the very recent fires in Australia and floods in Asia, the so-called deception turned into reality. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming.

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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. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

When women do engage on geoengineering issues, they do so largely through a governance and ethics lens, says Tina Sikka, a critical race and gender theorist at Newcastle University who published a book on solar geoengineering last year. But in terms of actually working on the science, “there are almost no women.”.

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References to Climate in the 2019 Canadian Federal Leaders Debate

Green Market Oracle

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. Elizabeth May: To avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, we must double our current target, we must listen to science. Justin Trudeau: I agree.