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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Legal Planet

But it’s not totally clear what he meant, because “climate change” was used at the time to refer to a range of issues including acid rain, damage to the ozone layer, local weather control efforts, and desertification. She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation.

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Six out of the world´s nine planetary boundaries have been crossed

A Greener Life

The boundaries range from climate change to the biosphere and deforestation , and from pollutants & plastic to nitrogen cycles and freshwater. The boundary for ozone depletion, for example, while not transgressed globally, was headed for increasing regional transgressions. This is the first time this exercise has been carried out.

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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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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Due to mass deforestation in the industrial era, they were driven out of the lowland habitats and into the highlands of China. Evelyn did not take this work upon himself.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. EPA – Request for Nominations of Candidates for the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel. billion for coastal mapping, resilience and related projects. 14, 2021.

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