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Celebrating the 25 years of The Montreal Protocol

Sunday, September 23, 2012 / Sustainable development / Leave a Comment

Despite all the gloom and doom of current events, there are reasons to celebrate, and to hope as the Montreal Protocol turned 25. This was at the time – and it still is – a huge success on environmental and climate issues. Indeed, the World Bank noted that ” The Montreal Protocol, by controlling the consumption …

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The Amazon rainforest starts emitting CO2

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 / Climate change / Leave a Comment

To TreeHugger : ” Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile ecosystem to the brink. “ ” (…) As a result of 2010’s Amazon drought, experts say, some 1.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide was released into …

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