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The Overview Effect

Grist

Today’s renewed interest in space travel has revived environmentalists’ long-simmering antagonism against it, tracing back to the early days of the space program in the late 1960s. Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. The supplier-specific method is used to estimate scope 3 emissions under the following categories: Purchased goods and services; Capital goods; Fuel and energy-related activities; Waste generated in operations.

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