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Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
...dirtiest fossil fuel in terms of carbon pollution” and is “literally choking our cities and our people,” causing nearly a million deaths per year and billions of dollars in economic...
Posted On 17 Nov 2017
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Organic farming may not cut climate risk
...calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or “dead zones” in lakes and rivers, and the potential...
Posted On 25 Jun 2017
Can business save the world from climate change?
...change action, particularly in the fossil fuel space. “While many of the oil majors are publicly supportive of climate action and the Paris agreement, some of them are still proposing...
Posted On 27 Aug 2017
Plastics leave permanent legacy
...containing fossilised evidence that could have been left by no other lifeform. Such changes have been so profound that earth scientists now propose a new name for this geological epoch:...
Posted On 24 Jul 2017
Global wind and solar costs to fall even faster – Report
...fossil power stations by 2030. London and New York, 15 June 2017 – Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are set to take almost three quarters of the...
Posted On 19 Jun 2017
Canada ranks 4th in new global cleantech index
...by 2030, and facilitate a just transition to a sustainable and fossil fuel-free energy system by 2050. The report identifies a positive correlation between inputs to innovation and outputs of...
Posted On 15 Jun 2017
States and industries face more climate court action
...by public interest lawyers working for nothing or for tiny fees. So far, the report says, litigation has been more successful against governments, but large mining companies and fossil fuel...
Posted On 15 Jun 2017
Climate change causes killer heatwaves
...predicted that extreme heat and humidity could make some parts of the planet uninhabitable if drastic steps were not taken to cut fossil fuel combustion, and the greenhouse gas emissions...
Posted On 14 Jun 2017