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Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Getty Images; Business Insider An illegal trade in greenhouse gases is threatening US climate goals. Refrigerant smuggling has persisted since the 1990s, when regulations arose to close the ozone hole.
Economic growth needed to end extreme povertyConsumption distributions Our income and consumption distributions for 2022 come from the 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report of the World Bank10, a bi-annual flagship report by the World Bank . . .
The US is widely believed to play a pivotal role in the development of international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but do other countries free ride on US pledges? This paper, published in SSRN, provides what we believe is the first empirical evidence by proposing the US Climate Reciprocity Ratio (CRR); this summary statistic […]
The climate chasm between the world’s carbon-guzzling rich and the heat-vulnerable poor forms a symbolic shape when plotted on a graph. Climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions are so heavily concentrated among a rich minority that the image resembles one of those old-fashioned broad-bowled, saucer-shaped glasses beloved of the gilded age: a champagne coupe. At the top […]
A new international report signals that historic U.S. legislation seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may have come in the nick of time, as the main drivers of climate change and some of its most widespread effects have reached record highs. The 32nd American Meteorological Society State of the Climate Report, an international annual review […]
A piece of land that has a federal drilling lease issued for oil and gas development is seen in Mecosta County, Michigan, U.S., March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin//File Photo WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management on Friday said it will analyze the climate impacts of proposed oil and […]
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