We’re facing a grim future under runaway climate change – but we don’t have to choose it

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We’re facing a grim future under runaway climate change – but we don’t have to choose it

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week published its latest report pulling together all the latest data on global warming and its impacts and it makes for particularly harrowing reading.
In this edition, EIA Climate Campaigner Sophie Geoghegan unpacks the main findings of the report and explains why, despite a grim outlook, it’s not a future we have to be locked into.

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Mar 4, 2022

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How our new global Tracker zeroes in on environmental crime data: Plundering the world’s precious natural resources is a multi-billion dollar business and, as such, keeping on top of the facts, statistics, seizures and trends of environmental crime means understanding huge amounts of raw data – data which can now b... by What on Earth?
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Africa’s epicentre of pangolin scale and ivory trade – tackling the drivers of wildlife crime: Just a few short years ago, pangolins were said to be the most trafficked species you’ve never heard of, poached for their meat and scales, but they became much more famous after they were potentially connected to the outbreak of the coronavirus pand... by What on Earth?
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Ban it and keep on banning it … the high cost to elephants of restarting legal ivory trade: Last week, Zimbabwe hosted what it called an ‘Elephant Summit’ for itself and several other African nations – including Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia – with the aim of restarting the legal international trade in ivory and selli... by What on Earth?
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Myanmar: ‘Anybody investing in the natural resource sector is, in essence, supporting the military’: EIA’s Forests team has been working on the ground in Myanmar since the country began to emerge from under the shadow of brutal military dictatorship in 2011, exposing illegal timber trade and helping to provide the tools for meaningful reform of its ... by What on Earth?
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We’re facing a grim future under runaway climate change –­ but we don’t have to choose it

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