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Global Briefing: UN summit sees $400bn pledged towards clean energy

Business Green

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges. Study: Renewable energy could deliver 25 million jobs in Africa and Asia.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal Many other countries in South and Southeast Asia with rapidly growing economies are expanding their use of coal to create electricity. In June of 1988 James E.