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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue.

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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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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter

GreenBiz

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. Coca-Cola appropriately is the longtime ally of the poster child for climate change, the polar bear.

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Key World Heritage sites will lose their glaciers by 2050

Inhabitat - Innovation

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report. In addition, even if global warming is curbed below 1.5 One-third of World Heritage sites possessing glaciers will lose their ice by mid-century, according to a U.N. degrees this would still happen.

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In Setting Corporate Climate Goals, Credibility is Key

GreenBiz

Limiting global warming to 1.5 Review the four steps your organization can follow to make credible, actionable climate goals in 3Degrees’ white paper, In Setting Corporate Climate Goals, Credibility is Key. degrees Celsius and avoiding the most catastrophic damage is essential, and corporations are the most influential players.

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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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Understanding the Carbon Removals Landscape: Creating Clarity in an Opaque Market

GreenBiz

degree or less global warming trajectory. These initiatives mandate corporations’ use of carbon removal to address remaining emissions in their climate target year and to contribute to global decarbonization on their path to net zero.

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