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Private jet emissions sky-high at Davos, group says

More than a thousand private jets shuttled dignitaries to last year’s global economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, a Greenpeace report revealed on Friday.  The flurry of these jets in and out…
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Most US car owners would benefit from EV switch, but lowest-income Americans could be left behind: study

More than 90 percent of car-owning households in the U.S. could reduce both the amount they pay to power their vehicles and their greenhouse gas emissions if they decided to go electric, a new stud…
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — A quarter of biodiversity may be erased by 2100

The Earth may lose some 10 percent of its animals and plants by 2050 and about27 percent by the end of the century, a new study has found.   Using one of Europe’s most powerful supercompu…
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — Canada, China join to protect nature amid tensions

A major United Nations summit on biodiversity will kick off on Tuesday in Montreal, where co-hosts Canada and China will have to overcome diplomatic differences on behalf of the environment. &…
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — Synthetic fibers soil ‘pristine’ Antarctic environment

Equilibrium is a newsletter from The Hill that tracks the growing global battle over the future of sustainability. Sign up below or online here. Samples taken from the Antarctic Weddell Sea have re…
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — 10-year-old activist’s appeal gets ovation at COP27

A 10-year-old Ghanian activist received a standing ovation on at the U.N. climate conference (COP27) on Friday, as she called upon world leaders to “have a heart and do the math” to solve the clima…
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — 10-year-old activist’s appeal gets ovation at COP27

A 10-year-old Ghanian activist received a standing ovation at the U.N. climate conference (COP27) on Friday as she called upon world leaders to “have a heart and do the math” to solve the climate c…