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Eco-Business and Community Ethics

The Environmental Blog

Different policies are developing around the globe for renewable energy resources to reduce the dependence on fuel to produce electricity. Some technologies progress independently of political support. But in that case, good governance and ethical considerations must still be the main focus.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Approximately twenty years after the publication of UNESCO’s Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations towards Future Generations, the need to protect the earth for the future generations has finally received a significant consideration in the field of ethics. 3. Application of Ethics.

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? Is it ethical to even research such technologies?

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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A year of editing at The Conversation

Martin LaMonica

Here in the US, the question was: could Congress and a subsequent president unravel or block Obama’s signature climate policies ? Given how much capital is already invested in our fossil fuel-dominated energy system, it will take decades to replace the energy infrastructure , even with climate-friendly policies.

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'They are not inevitable': How can businesses trigger clean tech tipping points in the 2020s?

Business Green

Yet as the global economy emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are on the rise once again, presenting a monumental challenge over the next eight years if the world is to keep to the 1.5C global warming target countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement on the table. They are not inevitable.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.