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Existing Technologies Can Help World Meet Agricultural Methane Targets By 2030

PA Environment Daily

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6. Urgent actions required.

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Frontiers is gearing up for COP28 to address the climate emergency 

Frontiers

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. Photo credit: Kyle Anthony Photography Addressing climate change, the paramount challenge of our era, hinges upon harmonizing fundamental human needs with sustainable climate remedies. Watch the session here.

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Will World Leaders Step Up to Deliver at the UN Climate Ambition Summit?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). Specifically, water resource sustainability refers to the process of harnessing and using it, in areas where drought is likely, managing it for minimal wastage.