The science academies of the G7 states are calling for urgent international action to protect the ocean and polar regions and to accelerate decarbonization. In the healthcare sector, scientists demand increased global pandemic ...
Environment
May 31, 2022
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Fossil fuel companies have access to an obscure legal tool that could jeopardize worldwide efforts to protect the climate, and they're starting to use it. The result could cost countries that press ahead with those efforts ...
Environment
May 9, 2022
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Tropical regions of the world lost 11.1 million hectares of forest cover in 2021, new data shows, calling into question global pledges to end deforestation by 2030.
Environment
May 2, 2022
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More than four in ten people live in parts of the world that are highly vulnerable to climate change, reveals the latest report from the IPCC. The crisis is a clear threat to people's health, lives and livelihoods. But if ...
Environment
Mar 7, 2022
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Gabon's network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) provides a blueprint that could be used in many other countries, experts say.
Ecology
Feb 8, 2022
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State-owned enterprises (SOEs)—companies for which 50 percent or more of voting shares are held by a government—play a major role in many of the world's largest economies, particularly in electricity generation, oil and ...
Environment
Feb 4, 2022
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One of the surprises to come out of COP26 was the U.S.-China joint declaration on enhancing climate action through the 2020s. Although the declaration lacked details, it offers a positive sign of progress toward curbing global ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2021
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Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the behavior of businesses and households. Those behavioral changes, intensified by government actions like mandatory closures, have had a reverberating impact ...
Economics & Business
Dec 7, 2021
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Ambitious action is needed to stop average global temperatures rising above 1.5°C. But some measures to cut fossil fuel use and develop alternative industries have provoked resistance. Wind farms can be a common source of ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2021
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Australia has received seemingly contradictory messages about coal this week.
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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