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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis

Real Climate

I had to look up the acronym “CDR” (Carbon dioxide removal). 2012) to understand why such small samples give non-robust and insufficient information for making regional future projections. 775-779, 2012. Yet, it desperately needs to reach those who are not yet onboard. Is it really necessary to use such acronyms?

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Profs. William Boyd and Alex Wang Join Prof. Ted Parson in Emmett Institute Faculty Leadership

Legal Planet

William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

A Greener Life

Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. Despite this knowledge, there has been little done since to develop carbon dioxide removal at scale. But ocean-based interventions have also been contentious.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

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. Martha Jr et al (2012) Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil, Vol. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B.

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The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups

Circle of Blue

Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. An estimated 10 percent of emissions of methane — a gas with 34 times more planet-warming potential than carbon dioxide — come from active or abandoned coal mines. Spoiled lands and waters was the cost of doing business.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

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] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential of approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC, 2021). Deforestation not only threatens biodiversity and disrupts ecosystems but can also increase carbon losses and reduce the capacity for carbon sequestration (Macedo et al.,