Carbon tax debate "like fighting about deck chairs on the Titanic" Activists fear the political debate about the carbon tax is overshadowing debate about fighting climate change. With the world expected to blow past 1.5° C of warming, one compares it to "fighting about deck chairs on the Titanic."
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Carbon tax debate "like fighting about deck chairs on the Titanic"
Activists fear the political debate about the carbon tax is overshadowing debate about fighting climate change. With the world expected to blow pas...
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BlackRock Promised to Be Climate Conscious. The Joke’s on Us Four years ago, BlackRock promised to steer away from environmentally destructive investments. Since then, it has faced predictable backlash, gotten cold feet, and dropped the act. Let that be a lesson about pinning our climate hopes on capital
BlackRock Promised to Be Climate-Conscious. The Joke’s on Us.
Four years ago, BlackRock promised to steer away from environmentally destructive investments. Since then, it has faced predictable backlash, gotte...
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Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02965-7 #UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
The Promise and Challenges of Managed Retreat What we can learn from South Carolina, which is ahead of other states in managed retreat—but still faces hurdles incentivizing people to leave homes that repeatedly flood South Carolina is facing the reality that in some areas, managed retreat may be the only option. A 2023 resilience report found that the state may need to buy out and tear down roughly 700,000 flood-prone homes
The Promise and Challenges of Managed Retreat - Inside Climate News
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August 2024 saw 30% more days with extreme rainfall than same period last year According to IMD the rainfall across the country in September 2024 is expected to be above normal, exceeding 109 per cent of the Long Period Average
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August 2024 saw 30% more days with extreme rainfall than same period last year
This year's August witnessed more extreme rainfall as compared to last year's with a 30 per cent increase in the number of days with extreme rainfa...
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People in Global South are most worried about climate change, survey finds People in Latin America and Africa and the Middle East express the greatest concern for climate change impacts in 2024, according to GlobeScan research
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People in Global South are most worried about climate change, survey finds | Trellis
People in Latin America and Africa and the Middle East express the greatest concern for climate change impacts in 2024, according to GlobeScan rese...
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“Greenlaundering” hiding true scale of banks’ lending to fossil fuel companies
Tax Justice Network
“Greenlaundering” hiding true scale of banks’ lending to fossil fuel companies - Tax Justice Network
Two-thirds of bank’s fossil fuel financing made through tax havens specialising in secrecy, new study finds.
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Moving the climate goalposts (text available in “reading mode”)
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Moving the climate goalposts
Remember as a child when you wanted to be able to reach the end of the rainbow? No matter how close you got to it, even when the colours were...
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Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change Though the country has lowered its overall malaria cases, studies show climate change may lead to more favourable conditions for mosquito breeding in vulnerable forested areas
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Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change
Though the country has lowered its overall malaria cases, studies show climate change may lead to more favourable conditions for mosquito breeding ...
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‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023 In its annual report, Global Witness affirms how dangerous it is to defend nature. More than 2,100 defenders have been murdered since 2012
‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023 - Inside Climate News
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