Archive: climate change
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People with disabilities left out of climate planning
Despite the fact that 185 countries ratified the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, drafted in 2006, which says that countries will take “all…
October 14, 2022
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MSB Professor’s Research Finds New Implications of Climate Change for the Economy
New research from a McDonough School of Business (MSB) professor revealed the impact climate change and extreme weather may have on the.…
September 8, 2022
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Multiple crises halt progress as 9 out of 10 countries fall backwards in human development, UNDP report warns
The world must jolt itself out of its global paralysis to secure the future of people and planet by re-booting its development…
September 8, 2022
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Trickle-down climate risk regulation
In the US, the primary regulators of national and community banks are narrowly zeroing in on risks posed to the largest banks—those with over $100 billion in total consolidated…
September 1, 2022
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Can the U.S. fight climate change — and shift industrial policy?
On Friday, the House will vote to approve the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), clearing the way for President Biden to sign the bill into.…
August 12, 2022
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NSF Awards Georgetown University $12.5M to Establish Institute for Emerging Virus Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgetown University $12.5 million to lead a global team of scientists in establishing a collaborative institute designed to advance…
August 10, 2022
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EXPLAINER: On China, US and climate, action, not talk is key
The last two agreements the world made to battle climate change came only after the United States and China, by far the two biggest carbon polluters, made deals with each other.…
August 6, 2022
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Beijing cuts U.S. cooperation to protest Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
China has gone ballistic in launching missiles over Taiwan — but the diplomatic bomb it dropped on Washington is mostly. …
August 5, 2022
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Slashing carbon dioxide emissions alone ‘won’t be enough to avert catastrophic climate change’
Rising emissions of less well known toxic pollutants must also be tackled if global temperatures are to remain at safe levels, say. …
May 23, 2022
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New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals
Cutting only CO2 emissions, but failing to rein in methane, HFCs and soot, will speed global warming in the coming decades and only slow it later this.…
May 23, 2022