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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. C in the context of sustainable development. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

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Analysis: Can one of Brazil’s deforestation hotspots become a green leader?

A Greener Life

So Flix do Xingu, in the Amazon state of Par, is a place of superlatives: it is the municipality with the second largest annual greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, the second highest rate of deforestation over the last 15 years, and the largest cattle herd in the country. This municipality is also a symbol of Pars broader condition.

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What should cities of the future look like?

Our Environment

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.” To be sure, there is much that Gleick and I agree upon. “We

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. should directly and through the World Bank and other institutions help poor and developing nations to modernize agriculture for economic development, environmental, and public health reasons. and around the world. 26] The U.S.

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ESA Policy News: December 5, 2022

ESA

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. White-nose syndrome is a deadly fungal infection that was first discovered in New York in 2006. More News: NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost – Associated Press. Scientific Community. Federal Register opportunities.

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