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===== Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/britain-net-zero-economy-booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security by Damian Carrington 24/2/25 The Guardian] | |||
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security | |||
===== Book Review: How Oak Trees Warn Us about the Limits of Adapting to Climate Change ===== | |||
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-how-oak-trees-warn-us-about-the-limits-of-adapting-to-climate-change/ by Dana Dunham 19/11/24 SCI AM] | |||
In many parts of the world, if you take a walk in the woods, you are likely to encounter an oak tree. With 425 species worldwide, their collective abundance may lead one to believe these trees are somewhat unremarkable—a fixture we take for granted. But Andrew L. Hipp, a botanist and research director at the Morton Arboretum in Illinois, reveals that oaks are a dynamic and essential part of the forest. | |||
===== Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG] | |||
A pair of sociologists, one with the University of Milan-Bicocca, the other with the Climate Accountability Institute, has used survey data to calculate the amount companies should be paying in reparations to compensate for activities that have led to global warming. | |||
===== Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance ===== | |||
[https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e1de6df8-03da-4cba-bdbb-519dc5bbaade by Jared Starr 17/8/23 ScienceOpen] | |||
Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income. | |||
===== Bill Gates made waves with his statements on climate change. Here’s why he’s right–and what most people missed ===== | |||
[https://fortune.com/2023/11/16/bill-gates-climate-change-trees-environment-un-gabriel-labbate/ by Gabriel Labbate 16/11/23 FORTUNE] | |||
When Bill Gates speaks, people listen. His contributions to tackling global problems have been nothing short of extraordinary, from funding cutting-edge vaccine development to supporting an array of groundbreaking initiatives on climate change. At New York Climate Week in September, his perspectives on climate change did not go unnoticed–and even made waves. | |||
===== Bill Gates made waves with his statements on climate change. Here’s why he’s right–and what most people missed ===== | |||
[https://fortune.com/2023/11/16/bill-gates-climate-change-trees-environment-un-gabriel-labbate/ by Gabriel Labbate 16/11/23 FORTUNE] | |||
When Bill Gates speaks, people listen. His contributions to tackling global problems have been nothing short of extraordinary, from funding cutting-edge vaccine development to supporting an array of groundbreaking initiatives on climate change. At New York Climate Week in September, his perspectives on climate change did not go unnoticed–and even made waves. | |||
===== Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first ===== | ===== Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first ===== | ||
