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The document outlines the EU's proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), designed to prevent carbon leakage by requiring importers to purchase certificates for embedded emissions in specific goods. It details the sectors covered, the calculation of emissions, the phase-out of free ETS allowances, and the transitional period from 2023 to 2025. Carbon Market Watch critiques the proposal for excluding bulk chemicals and indirect emissions, the slow phase-out of free allocations, and the plan to use revenues for COVID-19 debt repayment rather than international climate finance.

The document details the status of five rhino species. The greater one-horned rhino and white rhino show recovery trends, while the Javan, Sumatran, and black rhinos remain critically threatened. Poaching is a universal threat across all species, with climate change and habitat loss specifically impacting the greater one-horned rhino.

The document reports a rapid decline in Arctic sea ice, noting that the 15 lowest sea ice extents in the 42-year satellite record have all occurred in the last 15 years. It highlights the loss of multiyear ice and unprecedented melting events on the Greenland ice sheet in 2021. These changes are linked to global temperature rises and are projected to result in an effectively ice-free Arctic summer minimum at least once before 2050. The report details how this loss accelerates global warming via reduced reflectivity, disrupts jetstream-driven weather patterns, opens new shipping routes, and threatens the livelihoods of Indigenous communities.

The document provides a comprehensive Q&A on battery energy storage, distinguishing between behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter systems. It highlights how storage enhances grid flexibility, supports renewable energy integration, and improves community resilience during extreme weather. While noting the environmental and health benefits of displacing fossil fuel plants, it addresses safety risks like thermal runaway and the ethical concerns surrounding the mining of lithium and cobalt. It emphasizes the need for inclusive stakeholder engagement and strong policy design to ensure equitable deployment and sustainable supply chains.

Phosmet is a U.S. registered pesticide used in 40 states, primarily on orchards and grapes, and is currently under registration review. It is associated with serious health effects, including cancer, neurodevelopmental harm, and reproductive toxicity, with exposure occurring via food, drinking water, and occupational contact. The pesticide is applied to a significant percentage of several common crops, including peaches (55%) and nectarines (50%).

The document defines public-private partnerships (PPPs) as collaborative arrangements between public actors and private partners, often including academia or citizen groups, to deliver urban development and infrastructure. It outlines common models such as Design-Build-Operate (DBO) and Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), while highlighting that PPPs can accelerate climate neutrality by leveraging private capital and innovation. However, the text warns of risks including resource inequality between partners, lack of democratic mandates, and potential cost lock-ins. Success is attributed to early stakeholder engagement, a full life cycle approach, and transparent governance. The document notes that while the Caribbean and Latin America are highly active in PPPs, Swedish examples like the New Karolinska Hospital have been viewed as failures due to high costs and poor partner interaction.

The document examines the social, economic, and environmental challenges of urbanization in Sweden and highlights specific municipal projects focused on energy efficiency, low-carbon transport, and nature-based solutions. It emphasizes the role of cities in achieving net-zero emissions by 2045 and the use of green bonds to finance these transitions.

The guide advises journalists to frame climate change as a factor that makes extreme weather worse rather than a sole cause. It provides key data on global warming, noting a 2 degree Fahrenheit increase since pre-industrial times and the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The text details how climate change intensifies heat waves, floods, and hurricanes—noting that hurricanes now lose only 50% of their strength in the first 24 hours after landfall compared to 75% fifty years ago. It also highlights risks to biodiversity, the role of agriculture in producing a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the scientific necessity of eliminating new carbon emissions by 2050.

The document outlines several federal programs that leverage veterans' skills for roles in land management, agriculture, and conservation. Key initiatives include the Veterans Fire Corps for wildland firefighting, the BattleGround to Breaking Ground program for farming and ranching in Texas, and the VetsWork and NOAA Veterans Corps Fisheries programs for natural resource management and habitat restoration across multiple U.S. states.

The document explains that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are the main drivers of global warming, which has seen average global temperatures rise by about one degree Celsius since 1880. It details the resulting environmental impacts, such as rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and increased frequency of extreme weather events, while highlighting the specific vulnerability of the United States to billion-dollar disasters. The text outlines mitigation and adaptation strategies, including the transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency, and discusses the role of international agreements like the Paris Agreement and the influence of climate finance in supporting these transitions.

The document explains that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, have increased average global temperatures by approximately one degree Celsius since 1880. It details the resulting impacts, including rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and more severe extreme weather events. The text outlines strategies for mitigation and adaptation, discusses the role of renewable energy and energy efficiency, and describes the efforts of the United States, corporations, and the United Nations to address the crisis.

The project aims to protect and restore Key Biodiversity Areas in the Upper Chindwin Basin, Myanmar, through the development of Community Action Plans (CAP) and integrated land and water management. It addresses threats such as commercial mining, logging, and overfishing that have led to the decline of endangered aquatic species and wetland habitats. The initiative focuses on creating environmentally-sensitive livelihoods, establishing conservation zones, and providing policy recommendations to upscale these community-led conservation efforts nationally.

The document details a series of record-breaking climate events in 2020, including an unprecedented number of billion-dollar disasters in the US, extreme wildfires in California and Colorado, and devastating tropical cyclones in the Philippines and the Bay of Bengal. It highlights that 2020 was on pace to be the second-hottest year on record and notes the acceleration of Arctic sea ice retreat. Experts cited in the text emphasize that these events are driven by human-caused climate change and call for urgent climate action and funding for affected poor populations.

The document advocates for clean fuel standards to decarbonize the transportation sector, which is the largest source of global warming pollution in the US. It explains how these standards use carbon intensity (CI) and a credit/deficit system to make clean fuels more affordable and polluting fuels more expensive. The text highlights the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard as a successful model and emphasizes the need for an equitable transition that benefits overburdened communities.

The Union of Concerned Scientists argues that marginalized communities in the US face disproportionate environmental and health harms, which are exacerbated by systemic racism within federal agencies. The document recommends that agencies make equity-based analyses mandatory for significant policies, strengthen scientific integrity, and dismantle internal racial biases. Specific calls to action include rescinding certain EPA and CEQ rules, increasing the number of health and safety inspectors, and improving the meaningful participation of frontline and tribal communities in rulemaking processes.

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme warm water events, defined as temperatures above the 90th percentile for at least five consecutive days. These events have increased since the early twentieth century, driven by a 2.3°F (1.3°C) rise in sea surface temperatures over the last 100 years. MHWs cause severe ecological damage, including coral bleaching, kelp forest collapses, and sea bird die-offs, and can disrupt industries through fishery closures. A notable example is "the Blob" in the Pacific Ocean (2013), which lasted 226 days and was 4.5°F (2.5°C) warmer than average.

The document asserts that North Carolina's voting infrastructure is inadequate for a pandemic, citing low vote-by-mail usage and a history of gerrymandering. It links poor electoral representation to systemic issues in community health and environmental justice, recommending specific upgrades to voting access and procedures for the 2020 election.

The document asserts that current US voting conditions are inadequate for a pandemic, citing primary election failures in states like Wisconsin, Illinois, and Florida. It advocates for universal vote-by-mail, automatic and online registration, and expanded early in-person voting to protect voters and ensure electoral integrity.

The document highlights the intersection of public health disparities and voting access in Arizona, arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for administrative election upgrades. It recommends the adoption of same-day registration, improved vote-by-mail protocols, and the establishment of rural voting centers to protect marginalized communities and ensure a credible 2020 election.

The document outlines the nature of Covid-19, identifies high-risk groups in South Africa, and provides detailed hygiene and social distancing instructions to prevent transmission.