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Geophysical experts call for ethical framework in geoengineering deployment

Envirotec Magazine

As interest seemingly grows in geoengineering as a strategy for tackling global warming, the world’s largest association of Earth and space scientists has launched a putative “ethical framework” intended to function as a guide to responsible decision-making and inclusive dialogue.

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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Just the phrase itself, though.

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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter

GreenBiz

Coca-Cola appropriately is the longtime ally of the poster child for climate change, the polar bear. At just 11, I thought I could stop global warming, so I created a blog with articles urging people, "Save the polar bears." Perhaps they eat organic, use public transportation, recycle or take military-style showers.

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Grist / Jessie Blaeser. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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The 2021 proxy season: What’s on the menu?

GreenBiz

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. The 2021 proxy season is officially here — much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020. Political lobbying: Walt Disney.

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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Every proactive and positive thing we do, has an adverse reaction.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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