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The Climate Overshoot Commission Releases its Report

Legal Planet

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14.

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

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UN climate report warns the lives of over two billion people are at risk?

A Greener Life

Accelerated action through deep cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is needed to avoid the mounting loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure. Adequate funding, technology transfer, political commitment and partnership would lead to more effective climate change adaptation and emissions reductions. A path for adaptation.

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Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030

PA Environment Daily

The work was initiated by Alexander Hristov , distinguished professor of dairy nutrition, in 2015 when he was the chair of the Feed and Nutrition Network of the 35-country Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. Ruminants provide about half the animal protein produced by livestock.

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Happy new year 2023 !

Edouard Stenger

We have all the technological solutions to slash greenhouse gases emissions and reach a carbon neutral future. All that is lacking is political will to implement such solutions. We have all the means to restore Nature and regenerate our planet. (Cf Cf my recent review of Regeneration by Paul Hawken ).

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What is Our Ocean’s Role in the Transition to Clean Energy?

Ocean Conservancy

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Reassessing Climate Justice and Energy Security Between India and Pakistan: The Curious Case of the Kalabagh Dam (Part 2)

Vermont Law

However, the project was never undertaken because of interprovincial distrust and political manipulation by successive governments. The Kalabagh dam’s development has been impeded by a number of factors, including project finance, regional tensions, and center-province disputes. The dam was supposed to be completed by the year 1989.

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