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Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was its first failing grade after thousands of years holding onto more carbon than released to the atmosphere. This report, issued by NOAA annually since 2006, was a much-anticipated event at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting because the implications matter far beyond the Arctic.

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

A lot has been written about the efforts of universities to clean up their own carbon emissions. school of sustainability in 2006. There’s little in the way of systematic information, but there does seem to be a lot of ferment in the area. I want to begin by lamenting the lack of systematic information.

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WeConservePA Honors Cynthia Carrow With 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award

PA Environment Daily

Cynthia also oversees WPCs sustainability efforts, which have included energy efficiency, alternative energy generation, carbon emissions assessments, and transitions to electric vehicles. In 2006, Ms. As a member of the senior leadership team, she has consistently provided strategic direction for the Conservancy.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

What is needed by policy- and decision-makers at the local and sub-state scale is the ability to perform scenario analysis with relative ease that compares different land-use scenarios and the associated carbon sequestration and public ROI potentials. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Scale Carbon Emissions.

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What should cities of the future look like?

Our Environment

The transport sector alone is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions from energy use globally, with up to 40% of this coming from urban areas (Coalition for Urban Transition, 2019). So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies. link] (19)30215-3.pdf.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

I have been advocating this since the writing of my Master’s thesis at Audencia all the way back to 2006. Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. . — Unleashing energy efficiency’s HUGE potential. Doing more with less is the best solution to many of our problems.