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Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier Limitless GDP growth, even in rich countries, is baked into climate modeling. It shouldn’t be. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Depending on which climate advocate you talk to, economic growth can either be the force that will deliver us from planetary destruction or the source of it. Most climate models assume growth is a given, projecting its bounties will eventually spur on decarbonization. But this risky gamble isn’t our only option...

Fashion-haul videos gained popularity in the early days of YouTube. Now, the trend is taking off on TikTok, where creators filming themselves trying on dozens of new outfits in quick succession can easily gain millions of views. Videos posted using the "haul" hashtag, which predominantly contains fashion content, have reached 7 billion views. But at the same time, the trend is facing backlash from a small but growing chorus of critics, who argue that hauls are promoting excessive spending on fa...

Search An aerial photo of a protected forest area in Cikole, Lembang, West Bandung, West Java on Nov. 11, 2018. (Antara Photo/Raisan Al Farisi) Combating Climate Change: Indonesia’s Deforestation Hits Historic Low MAY 11, 2021 Jakarta. Indonesia’s deforestation rate hits a record low amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Environment and Forestry Ministry. Back in March, the ministry revealed that within 2019-2020, Indonesia’s deforestation rate h...

The UN have really blown it this time! No doubt concerned that CO2 propaganda is failing the UN Environment Program, a well-known collection of crackpots, no offense intended, have now decided to obsess on methane. Alighting, typically, on anthropogenic emissions at the expense of natural sources, they have highlighted bovine emissions, in other words they’re worried about cow farts. No doubt some of these hysterics are genuine, in the sense that they have limited capacity for rational though...

May 08, 2021 National governments are the main drivers of change to reduce harmful emissions. — courtesy Unsplash/Daniel Moqvist GENEVA — Methane emissions caused by human activity can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade, thus helping to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a UN-backed report published on Thursday. The Global Methane Assessment outlines the benefits of mitigating meth...

Nitrogen for Climate and Green Recovery”, held on 27 – 29 April 2021, in Colombo.  The event launched the #Nitrogen4NetZero initiative, to widen engagement on sustainable nitrogen management in this crucial year for climate action. #Nitrogen4NetZero is an initiative launched in partnership between the British High Commission, Colombo and the Government of Sri Lanka, championed by H.E. the President of Sri Lanka. The two key messages are that Net Zero will be impossible to achieve with...

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Call to reset our relationship with nature, taking mankind out of the centre 06 May 2021 - 15:21 By Mila de Villiers “When a pandemic arises it puts everything thats wrong with our approach to nature and wildlife conservation to the forefront.” This statement à la award-winning local investigative wildlife journalist and author, Adam Cruise. Cruise is speaking to me via Zoom from his home on the outskirts of the southern cape seaside town of George about his latest title, Its Not ...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 06 May 2021   On May 6, 2021, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Kenya, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Pavel Vzyatkin held a videoconference with Executive Director of the UNEP Inger Andersen. The Permanent Representative of Belarus noted the active contribution of the UNEP to achieving Sustainable ...

Some 170 Endangered Seals Found Dead on Russias Caspian Coast May 6, 2021 Authorities previously reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestans Caspian shore in December 2020. Musa Salgereyev / TASS At least 170 endangered seals washed up dead over the course of several days on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Russias republic of Dagestan, researchers told AFP on Thursday.  "These are the dead animals that we s...