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The IPCC report brings the future of the climate into clearer focus

Envirotec Magazine

Greater clarity about the trajectory of climate change – and the need for decisive action – appeared to be forthcoming from the latest summary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on 9 August. Policy response. For example, the scenario known as “RCP8.5”

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. It was the first in the world to establish that their government has a legal duty to protect its citizens from dangerous climate change.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

Business Green

The launch took place at the first-ever Green Hydrogen Global Assembly in Barcelona, with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, the Green Hydrogen Organisation, the African Development Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

Yet the fossil fuel industry continues to be the primary source of emissions and governments around the world continue to subsidize this climate destroying source of energy. Each year climate change costs the global economy at least $1.2 The ghost of the future By 2030, climate change could kill one hundred million people.