Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. By mid-century onwards, as much as 1 billion tonnes of carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere each year. But ocean-based interventions have also been contentious.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Governments are clearly failing when it comes to stopping global warming so perhaps this summary for policymakers should aim for business leaders. The issue here is a disturbed carbon cycle that now is out of balance because carbon has been taken from Earth’s crust and injected into the atmosphere. 775-779, 2012.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] 32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting. Elvidge et al.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. Brazil famously hosted the UN Earth Summit in 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012. Throughout the last four years, this legacy was sorely tested.

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Paris Agreement Government Deforestation Sustainable Development 52

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon and has been a member of the National Science Board since 2012. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep.

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