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Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. This climate pledge is widely considered the most ambitious of any country to date, especially since China—the world’s largest carbon-emitting nation—is still developing […]
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Empowered communities can help themselves, each other and their cities and countries to resist climate chaos, and this plus realistic mitigation efforts are new priorities for all governments
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While we strive for zero and negative emissions, climate chaos is inevitable and must be met by strengthening all our local community and ecological systems
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To make a difference to mid-century outcomes, we must be ambitious to survive and plan our climate response in full awareness of tipping point deadlines
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Arctic data suggest an ice-free future and runaway climate change from mid-century, making the early 2020s a deadline for us to get a grip or lose it forever
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Climate systems and human attitudes are both starting to tip into unprecedented forms, but which will win: biophysical catastrophe, or peace with nature?
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Humanity has made major, albeit inequitable, progress in health and development in recent history but this has come at a cost to the natural systems that underpin human progress. We live in an epoch when human activities are driving multiple environmental changes including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution of the air, soil and water- widely referred to as the Anthropocene.
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How to transition to a zero carbon economy in a timely and fair fashion is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. Bill Gates spelt out his vision of how to do it in his recent book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The answer for him is technological innovation and getting ideas to […]
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