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Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate Change

Andrew Winston

That awful list translates into serious impacts on humans, including threats to food and water security, health risks and the spread of disease, loss of biodiversity (that is, the web of life we rely on), infrastructure breakdown, and what the U.S. military calls “threat multipliers” that affect national security. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Online Green Economics Conference: Survival Solutions for Crises (Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss)

Green Market Oracle

The the 15th annual Green Economics Conference is titled " Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss " will take place on the zoom platform. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet.

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'Legal and environmental folly': Is a backlash already brewing over the government's fracking and deregulation drive?

Business Green

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

COP 130
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'The situation is poor across the board': Watchdog slams government failure to tackle nature decline

Business Green

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Boris Johnson: 'Nature is declining at a pace that is truly terrifying'

Business Green

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. We are on the brink of a world in which the orangutan and the black rhino can be found not in the jungles of Borneo or the savannahs of Africa, but confined to the pages of a history book. There is the very fact of this summit, the first of its kind.