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Earth Day 2024: It’s time for the Catholic Church to give up fossil fuels for good
Thousands of young people and their platforms joined a global climate strike in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka today (19 April) and demanded public investment banks and private sector organisations to redirect the investments made in fossil fuel and in harmful agribusiness towards more sustainable projects, renewable energy, and agroecology
Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change
A paper published in Harvard Environmental Law Review last week argues that fossil fuel companies have been “killing members of the public at an accelerating rate.” It says that oil giants’ awareness that their pollution could have lethal consequences solidly fits within the definition of homicide, which, in its basic form, is causing death with a “culpable mental state.” In other words, the case can be made that oil companies knew what they were doing
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Climate change will increase value of residential rooftop solar panels across US, study finds
Climate change will increase the future value of residential rooftop solar panels across the United States by up to 19% by the end of the century, according to a new University of Michigan-led study
Climate change will impact the value and optimal adoption of residential rooftop solar
We found that climate change will increase the value of rooftop solar to households by up to 19% and increase techno-economically optimal household capacity by up to 25% by the end of the century under a Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 scenario. This increased value is robust across cities, households, future warming scenarios and retail tariff structures
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