Publication date: September 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 175 Author(s): Thomas Bauwens, Marko Hekkert, Julian Kirchherr
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The climate crisis looms as the Coalition fiddles with fossil fuels | Greg Jericho
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The government is like a smoker switching to low-tar cigarettes. Its energy policy is just a sop We may be dealing with a health crisis, but the climate change crisis has not gone away, nor become any less urgent. In fact, the opposite. A few conservative commentators have suggested Covid-19 shows what a real crisis
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Crisis Hits Oil Industry and Energy Transition Alike
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20 May 2020
COVID-19 – China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best
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20 May 2020
Tropical cyclones have become more destructive over past 40 years, data shows
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US study identifies statistically significant trend in line with climate scientists’ predictions Tropical cyclones have become more intense around the globe in the past four decades, with more destructive storms forming more often, according to a study that further confirms the theory that warming oceans would drive more dangerous cyclones. Analysis of satellite records from
19 May 2020
Striking at the core of the COVID-19 employment crisis
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‘I’m not a quitter’: lobstermen turn to kelp farming in the face of climate crisis
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Climate breakdown is causing the Gulf of Maine to heat up and that effect – in addition to the pandemic – is being felt across the lobster industry Rocky shorelines and weathered saltbox homes dot the landscape of South Thomaston on the coast of Maine. Lobster traps take up frontyard real estate and lobster shacks,
19 May 2020
Victoria should expect one or two more ‘megafires’ before end of decade, study finds
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Author says global heating is increasing risk of fires in the state and logging is making forests more flammable Victoria is experiencing an increasing number of megafires that are threatening some of the state’s most important ecological habitats, a new study in a leading international journal has found. Many areas had seen multiple bushfires since
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The Meaning of R
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The Hotting-Up of the Sino-American Spat: Most Dangerous Side-Effect of Covid-19?
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