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6 Easy Steps to a Climate Friendly Camping Trip
Camping season is upon us – but how can you keep your outdoor experience green? Here are some tips on how to enjoy the great outdoors without doing damage.
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6 Inspiring TED Talks to Spark Climate Change Solutions
Want to start developing your own climate change solutions, but short of inspiration? Look no further, the Daily Planet brings you six inspiring TED Talks. Get inspired by these entrepreneurs, scientists and officials and you could develop a business model for your own start-up! 1. Communicating Creatively to Stop Climate Change In this TED Talk...
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State of the Planet: Portugal, Germany Smash Records – Gender Climate Deniers – Adventure Learning – Grolar Bear
Things are moving quickly as our planet makes the transition to a new, clean economy. You want to stay in the loop – but you’re busy, that’s why we keep an eye on the headlines for you! Welcome to the 20 May 2016 edition of the Daily Planet’s weekly State Of The Planet. Don’t hesitate...
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Fourth EU Climate Change Satellite Launches Successfully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQ1js6lg4I Just days after the signing of Paris Agreement on climate change, the fourth in a new series of Earth observation satellites was launched from French Guiana. The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully blasted a Sentinel satellite into space on Monday (25 April) to provide more radar data for the European Union’s Copernicus environmental...
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Al Gore: Climate Change Biggest Business Opportunity in World History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfgkFaswn4 Former US vice president Al Gore is one of the world’s most prominent campaigners for climate action, and usually paints a grim picture. But now he’s making the case for optimism. In his speech at the TED 2016 conference in Vancouver, Gore highlighted how an “explosion of new investment” is boosting the uptake of...
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State of the Planet: Scotland Coal Free – $2.3 Trillion Renewables Record – Climate Emoji – 100% Electric For India
Things are moving quickly as our planet makes the transition to a new, clean economy. You want to stay in the loop – but you’re busy, that’s why we keep an eye on the headlines for you! Welcome to the 1 April 2016 edition of the Daily Planet’s weekly State Of The Planet. Don’t hesitate...
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4 Inspiring Climate Action Projects to Brighten up Your Day
While the search is on for this year’s UN ‘Lighthouse Activities’ – the world’s best and brightest climate projects – we take a look back at some of the game-changing projects that made it on to the 2015 list. Each year Momentum for Change, an initiative led by the UN’s climate change office, showcases some...
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Got an Amazing Climate Project? The UN Wants to Help You With PR
https://vimeo.com/78705262 Are you part of a women-led climate action start-up? Or are you successfully financing climate innovations, or maybe you’ve developed an ICT solution that’s helping tackle climate change? The UN wants to help you with publicity. Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN’s climate change office, and shines a light on...
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Success of Europe’s Clean Air Policies Reveals Full Extent of Arctic Warming
As investors increasingly pull out of coal and shift towards renewable energy, new research shows how the drastic improvement in air quality over the previous decades has also revealed the true extent of the rise of Arctic temperatures since the 1980s. Researchers from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute say that their surprising finding...
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Ontario Injects $100 Million in Cleantech Jobs
The Canadian province of Ontario has announced it will invest nearly 100 million Canadian dollars into new greenhouse gas emission reducing projects. The investment is aimed at boosting energy efficiency, and jobs in Ontario’s innovation sector. Provincial premier Kathleen Wynne was at Morgan Solar‘s solar panel plant in Ontario to announce the cash injection, which...
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