Climate Change
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Environment
Environment United KingdomRecent Climate Pledges Offer Hope for Humanity – to Curb Global Warming
A new analysis shows that the world may be on track to halting global warming before it exceeds 2 degrees celsius — if the pledges made during the United Nations Climate Change Conference are implemented and followed.
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Environment
Environment FranceMajor Organization Will Offer Its Data for Free, to Help Fight Climate Crisis
In the wake of its annual meeting in Paris, France, the International Energy Agency plans to make its data available for free, thus giving governments, organizations, and scientists alike access to its reliable and valued information in these environmental-challenged times.
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Environment
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Environment
Environment SwitzerlandInsurance Will No Longer Renew for Big CO2 Emitters
As part of its new climate policy, a major reinsurance company based in Zurich, Switzerland has decided to no longer cover the most carbon-intensive fossil-fuel producers, thus taking concrete action to tackle the risks climate change is posing.
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Animals
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Environment
Environment SpainA win for Mother Earth: Insurance Giant Significantly Updates Climate Policy
An impressively updated climate policy has been adopted by Spanish multinational insurer MAPFRE — one that will no longer support coal, oil, and gas companies that are not aligned with a plan to keep temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius.
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Environment
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Environment
Environment IndiaThis City Plans to Reach Net-Zero Emissions Two Decades Early!
Mumbai, India’s largest megapolis, has a detailed plan to reach its net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050, some 20 years ahead of the national goal, setting an example for other large cities in South Asia and around the world to take concrete action to fight global…
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Environment
Environment South KoreaMeeting Climate Goals: South Korea’s New Floating Solar Farm
A new solar energy project has been released in South Korea, in an effort to reduce the country’s dependence on coal, generate energy equivalent to that of 9 nuclear reactors, and provide jobs and income for local communities.
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Environment
Environment CanadaHistoric UN Resolution on Animal Welfare Has Been Adopted
Thanks to its leadership, Canada played an important role in the adoption of the first United Nations Environment Assembly resolution focusing on animal welfare, a useful tool to protect biodiversity and address the climate crisis.