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IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water

Circle of Blue

Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing. Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action.

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“We Can’t Have Land Back Without Water Back”

Circle of Blue

But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. “It And in the American Southwest, she has taken up a new refrain: that “we can’t have land back without water back.”. “In

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DHL Is Investing $7.5 Billion to Ensure Climate Goals Are Met

Environment + Energy Leader

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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DHL Is Investing $7.5 Billion to Ensure Climate Goals Are Met

Environment + Energy Leader

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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The Winding Path of Australian Climate Policy

Legal Planet

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. As in the U.S.,

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South Korea and Climate Change

Legal Planet

With economic growth have come carbon emissions. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. It has also gone from being a military dictatorship to a robust democracy.