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Does Pollution End at U.S. Borders? – Why U.S. Military Pollution is a Reason for Agencies to Implement the Global Social Cost of Carbon

Vermont Law

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Based on current national GHG emissions commitments for 2030, global temperatures will likely exceed 1.5°C Image originally featured on eia.gov.

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COP26 Retrospective: Historical Turning Point Toward a Sustainable Future?

Acoel

billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system.

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

India plans to stop selling ICE cars by 2030. So, if our answers to climate change and air pollution are growing, with even global coal consumption peaking, why is there still more and more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? Meanwhile, as WRI reports , Brazil and Indonesia have seen higher levels of deforestation.

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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal

A Greener Life

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated.

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

Indeed, the global satellite internet market, which was worth $2.93bn in 2020, is projected to rise to $18.59bn by 2030. Weighing just 260 kg each, they will fly in very-low-Earth orbit at heights of roughly 550 km, which means that atmospheric drag will pull them down within a few years so they don’t end up as yet more space junk.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Their legal case pointed out including forest biomass as a carbon neutral renewable energy source is detrimental for the environment. 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. So, what?”.