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Never Give Up. Never Surrender.

Legal Planet

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. It’s not hard to see why some people despair about the climate. The Paris Agreement’s goal is to keep global warming well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5° C, over pre-industrial levels.

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HotSpots H2O: World Spending on Climate Adaptation Must Increase Five- or Tenfold

Circle of Blue

While climate adaptation planning is more widespread than ever, the U.N. T here is a huge gulf between what communities are spending to prepare for climate change and what they ought to spend, a new U.N. This gap is widening, as the costs of climate adaptation increase due to rising global temperatures. report found.

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial.

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Summer Heat Is Coming: Will New Policies Protect Workers?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Each year, summer-like temperatures arrive all too soon during spring, thanks to human-induced climate change. Research finds that even if we halt heat-trapping emissions, we’ll be locked into a summer season that consumes half of the year by 2100. Because as we know, climate change has become a climate crisis.

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Africa loses 34% of GDP at 1.5° warming, ‘grim’ new report concludes

A Greener Life

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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The IOC creates an Olympic Forest

A Greener Life

Climate-positive. The IOC has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2024, and by 45 per cent by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement.

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The alliance of carbon-negative countries

A Greener Life

Britain is working towards the long-term goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This small handful of countries is part of an elite club, the Alliance of Carbon-Negative Countries. If we were to imagine a set of scales, on side A we have all the carbon emitted by energy, industry, transport, etc.