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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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Webinar - The Post-Covid Sustainability Agenda: Revolution, Retreat or Return to Normal?

Green Market Oracle

By showing how the environment improves when business as usual is suspended, the coronavirus pandemic has sharpened awareness of potential for catastrophe if global warming persists at current levels. Can the recent disruption spur positive action?

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Macquarie eyes coal exit by 2024 as bank ramps up green investment plans

Business Green

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be. They aim to make ethical the new normal. About the author.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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Transition Pathway Initiative: Just 14 per cent of heavy industry is aligned with global climate goals

Business Green

The stark findings, compiled by researchers from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, reveal that 95 out of 111 large publicly-listed industrial have so far failed to align their emissions with a pathway that would cap global warming at 2C or 'well under 2C'.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We are more resilient and adaptive than we think.