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Misusing Carbon Removal as a Climate Response

Legal Planet

It seems clear that in some form, carbon removal is going to be an important component of climate policy, especially later in the century to deal with carbon levels that overshoot the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement. A trio of recent articles in the leading research journal Science highlights that risk.

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5 Anti-Climate Practices Elsevier Must Cease: Scientists Call out Publisher’s Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this year, The Guardian ran a powerful article exposing the ties of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic publishing companies, to the fossil fuel industry. The article caught my attention because I’d never considered the ways in which an academic publisher might be perpetuating and enabling a fossil fuel economy.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 27 th Conference of the Parties (COP27), this year’s UN climate conference, is in its final days. Seeing lies pop up on Twitter and even in news articles is frustrating enough for those of us who are here in person. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.

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The role of regulatory relationships in wastewater innovation

Legal Planet

Read our recent article. Their basic infrastructure is aging, budgets are tight, and they face a barrage of stressors, from population growth to climate change and shifting regulatory expectations. In another post, we will place this article in broader context and point the way towards spurring action on its insights.

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Going to the beach? Here are some research topics on the world’s oceans

Frontiers

Join us by reading up on the incredible findings and solutions made by researchers from across the globe. As we seek to escape the heat of summer at the beach, we are highlighting the top Research Topics on the world’s oceans. With more than 1.2

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What Are Multiform Floods? One More Thing to Worry about with Climate Change.

Union of Concerned Scientists

We are in the thick of “ danger season ” (aka summer), that time of year when climate-related disasters such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes are more likely to happen. Not only that, but climate change has made many of these disasters more severe and more likely to occur. Compound risks, compound impacts.

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Need sustainability strategy training? Look here

Environmental News Bits

The first two articles in this series, “Climate Literacy Training for Every Budget” and “10 Resources for Scaling Corporate Climate Literacy,” cited employee climate literacy training options and provided an overview of solutions designed to help businesses scale employee engagement around climate change.