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Loss of biodiversity is just as catastrophic as climate change

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Despite the profound threat of biodiversity loss, it is climate change that has long been considered the most pressing environmental concern. That changed this week in Paris, when representatives from 130 nations approved the most comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity ever undertaken. The report, spearheaded by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services … Read more

The +1.5ºC World – IPCC Special Report 2018

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The context, apart from a rapidly warming planet, is that the meetings in December 2018 in Katowice in Poland aim to take the whats from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and turn them into hows, specifically for financing – how much should more developed nations contribute vs developing nations?   “Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require rapid, … Read more