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Climate change and the rich | DW Documentary
Wealthy people are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than poorer people.
How the energy crisis is boosting heat pumps in Europe
Heat pumps are widely seen as the most important technology when it comes to decarbonising heating.
Wildfire Smoke Destroys Ozone
Smoke aerosols from large wildfires are the perfect reaction surface for chlorine chemicals, speeding their transformation from ozone-friendly forms to reactive ones.
What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?
A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically.
UN: Without halving emissions by 2030 world faces warming of around 3°C
The Earth has already warmed by at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times in the mid 19th century.
We are close to triggering irreversible ecosystem and weather changes
Our environment involves many different systems, and some of them are close to changing in drastic ways, for human time scales irreversible.