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by - To rebuild the economy from the coronavirus fallout, the United States must consider low-carbon and resilient investments, including energy retrofits, electric buses and reforestation.
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by Helen Mountford - March 12, 2020As governments look to help their economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, stimulus packages should also build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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by Noëmie Leprince-Ringuet - March 11, 2020Marshall Islands, Suriname, Norway and Moldova are the first countries to submit an enhanced "nationally determined contribution," or NDC. The Paris Agreement on climate change calls on countries to submit stronger NDCs every five years, beginning in 2020.
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by Katie Lebling - March 09, 2020Investing in direct air capture research can help remove carbon from the atmosphere and prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
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by Kelly Levin and Dennis Tirpak - February 28, 2020Scientists discovered that warmer temperatures will bring more injury-related deaths and violent crime in the United States. This post explores this and other studies published in January 2020.
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by Elizabeth Moses, Beatriz Cardenas and Jessica Seddon - February 25, 2020International consensus on cross-border environmental issues has been hard to come by, but a 40-year-old air pollution treaty has enjoyed great if largely unsung success, leading to cleaner air, healthier forests and the prevention of hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
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by Sheela Patel and Manish Bapna - February 21, 2020For cities, adapting to climate change doesn't just mean building more things. Good climate adaptation means including and engaging poor and marginalized communities.
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by Isabella Suarez - February 10, 2020Climate solutions are often divided into either mitigation actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or adaptation actions that help people adjust to climate change. But strategies and technologies that do both at once exist, and should be top priorities.
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by Mengpin Ge and Johannes Friedrich - February 06, 2020Data shows that the energy sector produces 73% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and 10 countries account for more than two-thirds of annual emissions.
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by Noah Maghsadi and Tina Huang - February 05, 2020Research shows that 80 airports around the world could be underwater with one meter of sea level rise, which scientists predict is likely to occur by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced.
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This chart offers a comprehensive view of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It describes the sources and activities across the global economy that produce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the type and volume of gases associated with each activity.
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by James Mulligan, Kelly Levin, Alex Rudee and Katie Lebling - January 31, 2020To prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to reach net zero by 2050. That will require both deep cuts in emissions and the removal of remaining emissions directly from the atmosphere. Making that happen will take concerted U.S. innovation akin to a moonshot. In this case, it's a CarbonShot.
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by James Mulligan, Alex Rudee, Katie Lebling, Kelly Levin, James Anderson and Ben Christensen - January 2020New WRI research finds that the United States needs to make large-scale investments in carbon removal in the coming years if the country is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. This working paper identifies a consolidated set of high-priority, near-term, federal policy options for advancing carbon removal pathways.
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by Jim Leape, Mark Abbott, Annie Brett, Ines Aguiar Branco and Johannes Friedrich - January 23, 2020In this era of upheaval in the ocean, driven by climate change and other stressors, technological innovations offer a flood of new data and new capabilities for translating it into actionable information.
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by Sarah Parsons - January 15, 20202020 will inevitably be a turning point for the environment. Key decisions on climate change, the ocean and biodiversity will determine if it is a turning point for the better or for the worse.
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by Katie Lebling, Alex Rudee and Kelly Levin - January 15, 2020With global greenhouse gases on track to rise — again — to their highest level in history, there's increasing interest in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In just a year, carbon removal has gone from being seen as a "radical fix" to a necessary tool to address the climate crisis.
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by Kelly Levin and Dennis Tirpak - January 13, 2020Climate scientists recently found that extreme heat is leading to more pre-term births, warming waters in New England are linked to a decline in fishermen, and unprecedented changes in the Arctic show the region is changing more quickly than anticipated. This post summarizes these and other studies published in December 2019.
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by Thailynn Munroe and Rod Taylor - January 10, 2020Australia’s bush fires are the worst in the country’s recorded history. Data on Global Forest Watch Fires sheds light on potential impacts to biodiversity and forest ecosystems.
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January 16, 2020
Please join us on for the U.S. launch of two new “Blue Papers” about the ocean’s relationship with humanity.
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by Talia Chorover and Jessica Arriens - January 06, 2020After Typhoon Ondoy struck an informal settlement in Pasig City, the government wanted to relocate residents up to 60 miles away. Instead, they built their own apartment complex designed to withstand floods and storms.