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New Database Helps Track Trade Across the Life Cycle of Plastics | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

The database, derived from the UN International Trade Statistics Database – UN Comtrade – and based on official sources, captures the breadth of trade across the life cycle of plastics by categorizing Harmonized Systems codes by stage of the plastics life cycle. Speakers warned about “hidden plastic trade,” which involves millions of products on the […]

Guest Article: Is a Gigaton of Emission Reductions from Forests Possible by 2025? | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

For countries that are committed to protecting and managing their forests and reforming agricultural production systems, a strong assurance of international carbon finance could be transformative. Success in delivering one gigaton of emissions reductions will serve to catalyze more large-scale private and public funding commitments while contributing to the 2030 mitigation goals and delivering an […]

Why banning financing for fossil fuel projects in Africa isn’t a climate solution

Source: Why banning financing for fossil fuel projects in Africa isn’t a climate solution

Today’s global energy inequities are staggering.

Video gamers in California consume more electricity than entire nations. The average Tanzanian used only one-sixth the electricity consumed by a typical American refrigerator in 2014.

Globally, the top 10% of countries consume 20 times more energy than the bottom 10%. And […]

Picturing Our Future – Climate Central

Source: Picturing Our Future – Climate Central

Unprecedented threats to cities from multi-century sea level rise – IOPscience

Source: Unprecedented threats to cities from multi-century sea level rise – IOPscience

How to Save the World (from a Climate Armageddon) – TomDispatch.com

Source: How to Save the World (from a Climate Armageddon) – TomDispatch.com

by Michael Klare

This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a world of lush forests, bountiful croplands, livable cities, and survivable coastlines. In its place, we saw the early […]

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