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Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Funding for developing countries to address global warming is grossly inadequate. Very little finance is for adaptation to climate change, the urgent need of countries most adversely affected. Also, a

Source: Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Race to the ocean bottom begins 🐙

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Political Climate podcast: Amy Harder on trends and… | Canary Media

Source: Political Climate podcast: Amy Harder on trends and… | Canary Media

Catalyst podcast: The future of natural gas | Canary Media

Source: Catalyst podcast: The future of natural gas | Canary Media

Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag

Source: Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag

Legendary VC John Doerr Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change – The Atlantic

Source: Legendary VC John Doerr Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change – The Atlantic

Banksliding and CalPERSiflage – by Bill McKibben

Source: Banksliding and CalPERSiflage – by Bill McKibben

Now they’ve left behind that fantastical kingdom, however, and Gulfstreamed back to the mundane world where avarice rules. And so they’ve begun to, as it were, bankslide. A few developments:

Global banks have turned on the money spigot for big oil. GFANZ stalwart Chase Bank “has underwritten some $2.5 […]

Hundreds of Companies Promised to Help Save Forests. Did They? – The New York Times

Source: Hundreds of Companies Promised to Help Save Forests. Did They? – The New York Times

By Lucy Tompkins

Dec. 2, 2021

Hindsight is a series from the Headway team looking back at predictions and promises from the past.

When a shopper in New York, say, plucks a Milky Way bar from a grocery store shelf, that […]

Why We Need to Understand ‘Short-Term Carbon Emissions’

Source: Why We Need to Understand ‘Short-Term Carbon Emissions’

Plastic Pollution and Trade: WTO, Basel Convention, and a Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

Participants discussed how plastic trade is affecting communities and the environment, as well as the role of trade policy in tackling the crisis. Speakers highlighted discussions taking place in the Informal Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (IDP) and decisions on plastic waste that were taken during the 14th session of the […]