Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits’
Holding global temperature rise to 1.5C would lead to significant economic benefits by the end of the century, a new paper suggests.
The paper uses...
Climate and biodiversity action “must drive” post-pandemic recovery
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Aligned policy measures addressing the climate and biodiversity crisis “can and must drive” the post-Covid 19 recovery, a new working paper has...
Jennifer Whitmore on the Just Transition Bill
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It’s a big week – we’re back from a short stint of a holiday, the Dáil is back from its summer...
Implications for mitigating methane emissions in agriculture
This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics
Since I was discussing methane in yesterday’s post, I thought I would highlight a paper on nderstanding the implications...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #42
Posted on 22 October 2017 by John Hartz
Story of the Week... SkS in the News... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Graphic...
Bord na Móna management met to decide future of Irish peat briquette plant workers
4th May, 2017
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U.S. Blocks UN Resolution on Geoengineering
Scientific American
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Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year
The world’s mangrove forests, with their archetypal twisted roots protruding from the water surface, store more than 4bn tonnes of carbon, new research shows.
But...
BPA found in majority of teens tested as part of new British study
February 19th, 2018
The industrial chemical BPA, found in many everyday plastic items, was identified in the majority of teenagers tested as part of a...
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