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Two Decades Trying to Solve China’s Environmental Problems: An Interview With WWF’s Tao Hu
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Despite some critics, the recent U.S.-China agreement over carbon emissions has sparked remarkable optimism in global climate negotiations. It’s also opened the door to new bilateral engagement between the U.S. and Chinese environmental communities on other issues, including China’s massive air pollution problems (16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China).
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Next Stop, Lima: Building Momentum for a New Global Agreement on Climate Change
›December 1, 2014 // By Kathleen Mogelgaard
This fall, a series of significant events signaled what many see as a shift toward meaningful collective action on climate change.
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Water and New Development Path Are Priorities in U.S.-China Climate Agreement
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NEW DELHI, India – There are nearly 1.3 billion people in this swarming democracy, where over 66 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the general election last May. A few of them took me aside this week to express surprise at the puzzle that is the American electorate and its national leadership. -
Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis
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There’s nothing demur about Mother Earth these days. She’s fuming and pushing back hard. Very hard.
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Exhausting the Planet: Jonathan Foley on Balancing Food Security With Environmental Sustainability
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“We’re living in a time of unprecedented change,” says Jonathan Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.
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UK Global Trends Report Forecasts Security Threats in Face of Growth, Climate and Technological Change
›October 22, 2014 // By Heather Randall
By 2045, global population will be north of 9 billion with increased urbanization and migration, natural resource stress, improved medical technologies, greater use of robotic labor, and a shift towards lifelong (and increasingly online) learning, according to a recent report from the UK Ministry of Defense.
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UN Further Refines Population Projections: 80 Percent Probability of 10-12 Billion People by 2100
›October 16, 2014 // By Elizabeth Leahy Madsen
Seasoned demography geeks know to anticipate the release of the UN Population Division’s World Population Prospects in the spring of odd-numbered years. An off-cycle update published last month in Science, summarizing new results and methodological changes to the projections, therefore provoked a buzz of interest and a mini-flurry of media coverage.
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While China Waits on Shale Gas, Soaring Energy Demands Create Regional Tensions
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China’s energy investments are on the move, touching nearly every region of the globe from coal and liquefied natural gas imports from Australia to a recent natural gas agreement with Russia and expanded oil drilling in the South China Sea. [Video Below]
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