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Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees

Unsustainable

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

The demonstrable reality is that burning an expensive and polluting source of energy costs more than generating power through clean and lower cost technologies. It is fair to say there are industries where decarbonisation remains technically challenging and eye-wateringly expensive.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

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Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. This year will be different. The COP28 host United Arab Emirates is using its presidency to firmly press the need for food transformation.

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Climate Related Excerpts from the Ninth Democratic Primary Debate

Green Market Oracle

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. That's where the asthma is, that's where the groundwater supply has been polluted. That's where most of the greenhouse.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. of global warming by 2050.