Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. A poster from the first Earth Day, 1970.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Those Apollo missions are often credited with providing inspiration for the environmental movement, as well as the first Earth Day in April 1970, when some 20 million Americans demanded that political leaders clean up the air and water in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. Space Frontiers / Getty Images).

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. C) within reach. In the United States, reporting on GHG emissions is mandatory for large GHG emitters.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 22, 2020

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day we are called to to rise above our concerns and strive for a better world. We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. His fossil fuel powered politics is at war with nature. In the U.S.

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