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Which documentaries on climate-change would you recommend?

Which documentaries on climate-change would you recommend? On effects/reasons/adaption/prevention...
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How can I persuade my friends to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle?

Sustainability could lead to the prosperity of a team. But if my friends have different lifestyles is quite hard to understand me. What arguments could be used in favor of a sustai …
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If climate change is unavoidable, could we not adapt to it?

If we manage to achieve deep cuts in CO2 emissions to keep global warming below 2°C, we might also be able to keep the impacts of climate change within tolerable limits. However, …
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How can we assess national adaptation strategies?

Countries around the world are starting to produce national adaptation strategies. What type of indicators or variables should measure the effectiveness and quality of such strateg …
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What is the global job creation growth coming from the RE and cleantech industries?

Could the creation of green jobs and supplementary ones, tackles the unemployment global rate in the near future? What are the necessary steps that should be followed by the state …
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What books or articles on climate-change would you recommend?

What books or articles on climate-change would you recommend? On effects/reasons/adaption/prevention, Fiction/Non-fiction, for children/adults...
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What should be the priority for adaptation to climate change?

There are big discussion in the negotiations about adaptation. The European Union estimated a couple of weeks ago that nearly 150 billion USD would be needed; then UK-France-Germa …
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HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE EFECTIVELY?

It seems to me that we could discuss, argue, and debate all climate change issues until we are all blue in the face and still not reach any answers or consensus on the subject. It …
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Where are the best practices on ecosystem based adaptation?

Call for Practices: "Ecosystem Based Adaptation" Natureandpoverty.net and IUCN invite you to share practices and case studies on Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EbA) Ecosystem-based …
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What type of institutional structure should link national adaptation strategies with local adaptation efforts?

Local adaptation efforts should be linked to national adaptation strategies. But, how should this happen? What are the main needs at the local level (local councils, municipal leve …
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“Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them”. How these words can be applied in Global Warming?

If Global Warming is mainly caused by us then what areas of our capabilities have not been used before? What sort of levels of awareness could provide us with new tools?
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What are the effects of the melting of Greenland Icecap ?

I have read that if the Greenland icecap were to melt, the seas would rise by 23 feet. If this were true, what percentage of the earth's land area would be affected i.e. lost, wha …
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Which of the green technologies can be applied at our homes?

It is very likely, that people will need to adapt to climate change fast. Depends upon the effects caused by climate changes, people might need to learn what various green technolo …
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Why should we focus our attention on halting global warming instead of adapting to it?

Seems to me global warming could maybe do us some good. Why do we insist on trying to combat it rather than embrace and adapt to it? Seems like all the solutions offered up so far …

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