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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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Global emissions from energy are flat. Now what ?

Edouard Stenger

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016. Deforestation is one.

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. Meanwhile, as WRI reports , Brazil and Indonesia have seen higher levels of deforestation. Now The Lancet has an estimate of the cost: 4.6

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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] 30] Roughly 40 percent of the planet has seen “greening”—more forest and other biomass growth—between 1981 and 2016. Between 1961 and 2016, pastureland expanded by an area almost the size of Alaska. [59] December 2016.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

The British think-tank Sandbag claimed the deforestation induced by wood’s high demand will cancel out the benefit of not burning coal, thus boosting climate change rather than mitigating it. Besides sequestering 25% of the CO2 from the atmosphere , oceans are an immense resource for energy production. So, what?”. Ocean energy.

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Special Policy News #7: The Transition

ESA

Estenoz led Everglades restoration initiatives in the Interior Department during the Obama administration and received ESA’s 2016 Regional Policy Award. Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high – The Guardian. How Mexico’s Vast Tree-Planting Program Ended Up Encouraging Deforestation – Bloomberg Green. 1, 2022.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. The federal district court for the Northern District of California ordered the U.S.

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