Middle EastSPECIAL REPORT Can the Saudis oil money help him save the planet?
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Carlos Duarte, professor of Marine Science and Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) poses for a portrait at the university near the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Spanish biologist Carlos Duarte had been at a Saudi royal palace until three o clock in the morning, waiting for the country s most powerful man.
Finally in his hotel room, Duarte awoke hours later and noticed an alert on his smartphone screen. It was the palace: He and the other scientists and officials at the meeting on sustainable development should return immediately. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was ready for them.
It is every individual’s responsibility to restore our earth April 20, 2021, 3:24 PM IST
Guruprakash Sastry, regional head - Infrastructure, Infosys.
The biggest crisis facing humanity today is in fact climate change – rising global temperatures, depleting forest cover, contamination of our lakes, rivers and oceans, and deteriorating air quality.
Strong scientific consensus points to human activities as the main cause of climate change. Globally, climate change is believed to claim more lives every year than all infectious diseases. A recent report from United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts some of the most severe social and economic damage from global warming to occur as soon as 2040. So, there is a need for an urgent, decisive, and collective action to reverse the damage caused and restore our earth for our future generations.
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A new multi-model analysis suggests that China will need to reduce its carbon emissions by over 90% and its energy consumption by almost 40%, in order to meet the more ambitious target set by the 2016 Paris Agreement. The Agreement called for no more than a 1.5°Celsius (C) global temperature rise by 2050. These results provide a clear directive for China to deploy multiple strategies at once for long-term emission mitigation, the authors say. The findings also highlight the need for more research on the economic consequences of working toward a 1.5°C warming limit, arguing that current studies are far from adequate to inform the sixth assessment report (AR 6) on climate change planned for release by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2022. Most research to inform climate policy has centered on the goal of 2.0°C, and to date, there is clearly no consensus on the attractiveness of a 1.5°C target, particularly given the uncertainty in associa
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NEW YORK CITY In the autumn of 1969, a young doctoral student thumbs through a magazine published by his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Vietnam War is raging. Richard Nixon is president. The Manson killings have just horrified America with their Helter Skelter depravity.
But a different kind of headline blows Michael Oppenheimer’s mind: “The Modification of Planet Earth by Man.”
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“Man’s technology is changing the physical environment in ways which are not clearly understood,” reads the introduction to the piece, by pioneering climate scientist Gordon MacDonald. “The results could endanger man’s future on earth.”
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