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Denmark to Cut Emissions 70% by 2030 While New Zealand Adopts Climate Policy Lens
Two of the world’s wealthier countries have committed to a more ambitious response to the climate crisis, with Denmark adopting a 2030 deadline for ... -
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Need to Get It Right: Article 6 Could Trigger Faster Carbon Cuts or Massive Greenwashing
It could make or break the success of the Paris Agreement. It’s a notably complicated section of an international accord that is already arcane ... -
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‘Two Worlds Collide’ as Urgent Street Protests Meet Slow, Deliberate COP Negotiations
With negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate conference in Madrid, COP 25, reaching their midpoint, some delegates and observers are getting a sense ... -
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‘Unglamourous’ Manure Workshop Brings Ground-Up Solutions to COP 25
The emissions reduction potential of manure was the decidedly…earthy, if “unglamourous” focus of a pre-conference workshop attached to United Nations climate negotiations in Madrid, ... -
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WMO Declares 2010s the Warmest Decade on Record as Climate Impacts Accelerate
The 2010s are almost certain to take their place as the warmest decade on record, and 2015-2019 as the five-year span with the highest ... -
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‘Vanguard vs. Laggards’: Spain Presses COP 25 Delegates for Faster, Deeper Carbon Cuts
As this year’s United Nations climate change conference, COP 25, got under way in Madrid, initial news coverage pointed to a division between the ... -
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Nine Climate Tipping Points Could Pose ‘Existential Threat to Civilization’, Scientists Warn
With this year’s United Nations climate conference set to kick off in Madrid Monday morning, the Earth is in danger of crossing as many ... -
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Arctic Temperatures Up to 11° Above Normal Produce Treacherously Thin Ice
Treacherously thin ice, arriving very late, is one of the immediate impacts of the shockingly warm temperatures this autumn across much of the far ... -
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Record GHG Concentrations Prompt Call for Drastic Action to Reduce Emissions
A pair of alarming reports from United Nations agencies shows greenhouse gas emissions at record levels and rising at a faster annual rate, meaning ... -
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EU to Declare Climate Emergency Ahead of UN Climate Conference Next Week
European Union legislators are on track to declare a climate emergency ahead of the annual United Nations climate conference opening next week in Madrid, ... -
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‘Hazardous’ Air Quality in Lahore, Pakistan Prompts Amnesty International Action Alert
Amnesty International has issued what it describes as an unprecedented Urgent Action alert for an entire city, calling on its global network to defend ... -
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UPDATE: Climate Community Reacts After Business Journal Overstates Koala Extinction Risk
The massive bushfires sweeping New South Wales, Australia have experts debating whether koalas are now “functionally extinct”, after flames killed more than 1,000 of ... -
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Fossil Production Plans, Subsidies Put Countries Far Beyond 1.5°C Paris Target
The world’s governments are on track to produce more than twice as much oil, gas, and coal as the amounts that would enable them ... -
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‘Being Rich Matters’ as $7.9 Trillion in Future Climate Impacts Hit Africa Hardest
The impacts of climate change could cost the world’s economy US$7.9 trillion by 2050, according to the latest climate resilience index from a leading ... -
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Efficient Water Distribution Would Save 870 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
More efficient water distribution places #71 on the Drawdown list of climate solutions. It could cut atmospheric carbon dioxide by 870 megatons by 2050 ...
