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Stay abreast of the current news on environment and climate change, and get insights on the latest trends and developments from around the world.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
World pledges to protect polluted, degraded planet & adopts blueprint for more sustainable future
The world laid the groundwork for a radical shift to a more sustainable future, where innovation will be harnessed to tackle environmental challenges, the use of throwaway plastics will be signi cantly reduced, and development will no longer cost the earth.
https://bit.ly/2MuqNDJ
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'Grounds for optimism.' Global CO2 emissions plateaued in 2019, defying expectations,
says report
The world continues to increase the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide it pumps into the air, but it’s not rising as fast as in the previous couple years.
https://bit.ly/330g1fm
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Carbon markets shape agenda
at UN Climate Summit
Four years after pledging to limit global warming to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, representatives of nearly 200 countries are putting the nishing touches to the 2015 Paris climate accord.
https://go.nature.com/37dFsef
Climate Risks increasing worldwide -
even for High-Income-Countries
Severe heat waves, drought and ooding: Extreme weather events are massive challenges especially for poor and vulnerable countries - but also high-income countries are threatened more and more by climate risks. https://bit.ly/2rwzGp6
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Glaciers are melting and air
pollution is the cause
Deep inside the layers of ice sitting atop the Andes Mountains in Peru is evidence of the earliest human-caused air pollution. Within
the core of the 1,200-year-old Quelccaya Ice Cap, scientists have found traces of lead and mercury, the chemicals used after the Spanish occupation, in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia. https://bit.ly/2skG82S
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Disrupting the deep: Ocean warming reaches the abyss
Seventy-one percent of our planet is covered by ocean, and these basins contain 97 percent of Earth’s near-surface water. The ocean lies at the heart of the global climate system, shaping all parts of our environment, even in the deepest continental interiors. So as the ocean goes, so goes the planet — and the ocean is warming. https://bit.ly/2ZqleeA
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Arctic change and mid-latitude weather
The Arctic is warming much faster than the
rest of the planet, a phenomenon called Arctic ampli cation. The enhanced warming results in a massive loss in sea ice and snow cover, which in turn interact with the atmosphere. https://go.nature.com/35Z4KN7
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Why we should be far more afraid of climate tipping points
For decades, scientists have warned that global warming could surpass dangerous tipping points, propelling rain forests, ice sheets, and coral reefs into effectively irreversible death spirals. https://bit.ly/2ZnnS4W
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