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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. C in the context of sustainable development. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

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Interview with Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

Environmental Progress

When we destroy nature, we also chip away at the foundation we need to guarantee just, sustainable development for all people on the planet. Food and agriculture, and buildings and construction accounted for nearly 70% of the world’s total material footprint in 2015. Do you believe there is evidence for leap-frogging?

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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The Year in Water, 2021

Circle of Blue

Even as the global poverty rate rose for the first time in two decades and more people in developing countries were thrust into poverty, utilities proved more resilient than expected. s Sustainable Development Goals for drinking water, sanitation, and water management slowed. . Brett Walton. Progress toward the U.N.’s

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Natural Disasters: Developing Resiliency and Addressing Climate Refugees

Vermont Law

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2017 was the hottest on. In contrast, many states and cities have developed forward-looking climate-resilient. trajectories that combine adaptation and mitigation with effective institutions to realize the goal of sustainable development.”

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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

3] From 1981 to 2015, the population of humans living in extreme poverty plummeted from 44 percent to 10 percent. [4] 32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 2] Infant mortality declined from 43 to 4 percent. [3] 41] Cheikh Mbow et al.,