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Greta Thunberg calls out the 'haters'
The haters are as active as ever", she posted on social media on Thursday, "going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my differences". Anything, she says, rather than talk about the climate crisis.
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Trade Groups and their Carbon Footprints
We are a neutral and independent UK-based non-profit whose remit is to map, analyze and score the extent to which corporations are influencing climate policy and legislation worldwide.
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Mortgage Lenders Are Shifting Climate Risks Onto Taxpayers, Study Finds
Banks are attempting to shield themselves from climate change at taxpayers’ expense, by shifting riskier mortgages — such as those in coastal areas — off their books and over to the federal government, new research suggests. The findings, presented in a paper to be released Monday, represent “a potential threat to the stability of financial institutions,” according to the authors. They warn that the threat will grow as global warming leads to more frequent and more severe disasters, forcing more loans to go into default as homeowners cannot or would not make mortgage payments.
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California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it? California thinks it has an answer. On Sept. 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.
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The $47 Trillion Death Sentence For Oil & Gas
The future of hydrocarbons is becoming bleak if plans presented by international banks, representing around $47 trillion in value, will be fully implemented. Around 130 international banks, all present at the UN climate change summit in New York, have committed themselves to decrease their support and investments in the oil and gas sector the coming years.
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Attacks on Greta Thunberg Come from a Coordinated Network of Climate Change Deniers
“Freak yachting accidents do happen…” That was how British businessman, Trump ally, and Brexit bankroller Arron Banks responded to the news that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who inspired the school climate strikes movement, was sailing to America to attend the UN Climate Action Summit. His scorn was not unique.
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Islands Could Become Uninhabitable As The Ocean Warms At An Alarming Rate, Report Says
The world's oceans are warming at an alarming rate, melting glaciers, depleting fish populations, supercharging tropical cyclones, and threatening the livelihoods of millions of people who live in coastal areas and the Arctic, according to a new report from the United Nations' body in charge of monitoring climate change.
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The World’s Oceans Are Losing Power to Stall Climate Change
The world’s oceans have long helped to stave off climate change by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that is changing, with devastating consequences for humanity in the coming decades, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations.
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‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing world in climate emergency
A new equation showing that the world is ‘deep in a climate emergency’ was unveiled on 24 September by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change, who said that people still don’t want to see the truth about the state we’re in.
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How Cities Reshape the Evolutionary Path of Urban Wildlife
If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.
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Bernie Sanders' climate plan is radical and expensive — which is why it could work
The climate is just one of a range of serious issues that needs a progressive president ready and willing to implement a serious crisis plan in 2020.
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Climate Week in New York Is Just Getting Started
Monday: Every day this week, people are gathering throughout the city to discuss climate change and what they can do about it.
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'The corporate veil is being pierced by this generation': The CEO of a $55 billion company reveals how Gen Z is forcing people to take stand on climate change
Emmanuel Faber, the CEO of $55 billion food and beverage giant Danone, is leading a coalition for an industry at a crossroads. On Monday, 19 companies with combined annual revenues of more than $500 billion, including Danone, Kellogg Company, Mars, and Nestlé, launched the "One Planet Business for Biodiversity" initiative at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York City.
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The road to clean energy
There is unprecedented consensus that we are headed for a world of extreme weather patterns with devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of people. Can a climate catastrophe be avoided? The government wants the UK to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Is that possible and, if yes, how?
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There's evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US
A team of researchers tried to gauge public perceptions of climate activists and faith in humanity's ability to work together on issues like climate change.
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America's great climate exodus is starting in the Florida Keys
Mass migration begins as coastal homes are bulldozed in the state facing the biggest threat from climate-driven inundation. Lori Rittel is stuck in her Florida Keys home, living in the wreckage left by Hurricane Irma two years ago, unable to rebuild or repair. Now her best hope for escape is to sell the little white bungalow to the government to knock down.
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Trump to snub climate summit for religious freedom meeting at UN
Donald Trump is set to attend the United Nations headquarters during Monday’s key summit on the climate crisis – but will be there to take part in a meeting on religious freedom instead. A senior UN official confirmed to the Guardian that the White House has booked one of the large conference rooms in the New York headquarters on Monday so that the president can address a gathering on religious freedom.
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This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing
During the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares the lad for slaughter before God relents and tells him to offer a ram instead.
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Global climate strike: millions protest worldwide – in pictures
People around the world have been walking out of school and work to join the latest protests against the climate crisis. The global day of action, calling for a reduction in emissions, comes in the run-up to a UN summit in New York
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Jeff Bezos unveils sweeping plan to tackle climate change
As part of the plan, Amazon has agreed to purchase 100,000 electric delivery vans from vehicle manufacturer Rivian.
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