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Special report documents the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

...require “rapid and far-reaching ”transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from...
Posted On 08 Oct 2018
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How Businesses Can Avoid Greenwashing Their Sustainability Goals

...Certification Energy Star It is important to note that a business should choose a reputable organization to authenticate its products. It’s Not Easy Claiming to Be Green These are just...
Posted On 23 Jun 2021

Hotter world than predicted may be here by 2100

...then matched the reasoning against observations. In particular, they looked again at seasonal and monthly variability in climate and the latest thinking about energy use, and carbon dioxide emissions, and...
Posted On 08 Dec 2017
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Urban heat islands leave cities sweltering

...energy, and by 2050 they will be home to 65% of the planet’s population. So what happens in cities matters in all calculations of global warming. Containing the heat Researchers...
Posted On 01 Jun 2017
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Hopes rise for longer-term climate forecasts

...photosynthesise new tissue and at the same time release water vapour, which changes the levels of radiant energy at the surface and sooner or later forms a cloud, which then...
Posted On 09 Jun 2017
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Best ways to cut climate change are overlooked

...of current and future descendants, and current levels for all emissions produced over the lifespan of descendants, divided by the life expectancy of the parent. Buying green energy, often suggested...
Posted On 13 Jul 2017
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Alarm at rise in forest carbon

...that emissions of that other greenhouse gas, methane, are at least 11% higher than estimated in 2006. So calculations based on the balance between energy use by industry and society,...
Posted On 04 Oct 2017
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Land use can achieve 30% of carbon cuts by 2030

...to have to get serious about investing in nature, as well as in clean energy and clean transport. “We are going to have to increase food and timber production to...
Posted On 01 Nov 2017
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