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System Change Investing and Political Reform [PDF]
System change is the most important sustainability issue. Flawed economic and political systems compel all companies to degrade the environment and society.
Frank Dixon
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Global System Change: A Whole System, Nature-Based Framework for Sustainability, System Change and Responsible Investing [PDF]
Interest in system change is rising, driven largely by growing awareness that flawed economic and political systems are the root causes of climate change and other major challenges.
Frank Dixon
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Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Runoff Projections to 2200 Using Degree-Day Methods
Surface runoff from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has dominated recent ice mass loss and is having significant impacts on sea-level rise under global warming.
Chao Yue +3 more
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There is evidence of connections between soil organic carbon (SOC) and inorganic carbon (SIC) in dryland of north China. However, fractions of SOC and SIC and the relationship are not well understood in the Loess Plateau that undergoes profound erosion ...
Tongping Lu, Xiujun Wang, Wenxi Zhang
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In the context of global warming, vegetation activity in northeastern East Asia (40–45°N, 105–130°E) (NEA) shows a significant growth trend on a multidecadal scale, but how vegetation changes on a decadal scale is unclear.
Zijing Guo, Wei Lou, Cheng Sun, Bin He
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Historical land use impacts climate by biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects. Their combined effects on mean and extreme temperature may harm economically disadvantaged countries but benefit those in rich countries, raising questions of equality.
Shu Liu +5 more
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ObjectiveMale youth who have been involved in the juvenile legal system have disproportionate rates of trauma and violence exposure. Many justice-involved youth have untreated mental illness, with an estimated 66% of young men who are incarcerated ...
Nathalie M. Dumornay +15 more
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Mitigation of Arctic permafrost carbon loss through stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
Rising temperatures in the Arctic can lead to the release of vast amounts of carbon stored in permafrost soils. Here the authors show that stratospheric sulfate aerosol injection geoengineering can help to avoid about 14 gigatons of carbon release and US$
Yating Chen, Aobo Liu, John C. Moore
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Life cycle energy and GHG emissions of PET recycling: Change-oriented effects [PDF]
Purpose: The demand of PET bottles has increased rapidly in the past decades. The purpose of this study is to understand the environmental impact of PET recycling system, in which used bottles are recycled into both fibre and bottles, and to compare the ...
Li Shen +11 more
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In the practice of interpolating near-surface soil moisture measured by a wireless sensor network (WSN) grid, traditional Kriging methods with auxiliary variables, such as Co-kriging and Kriging with external drift (KED), cannot achieve satisfactory ...
Jialin Zhang +5 more
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