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Insidious Air Pollution. Legal Regimes for Arctic Climate Change

... more than twice of the global mean; surface air temperatures in recent years exceeded those of any year since 1900, and the volume of winter sea ice has declined by 75 per cent since 1979 .” One of the reasons for such climatic changes is excessive air pollution coming from offshore activities. Producing, processing and combusting oil and gas release large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ), two core greenhouse gases (GHG). The majority of anthropogenic emissions on a global scale ...

06.05.2020

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India in Need of Air and Water

... degradation that is becoming increasingly unbreakable. In the past few decades, India has become one of the least livable places in the world, placing 155th out of 178 on the environment index produced by the Yale University based on 20 parameters [1] . Air pollution is definitely the most serious problem, with India having one of the world's worst atmospheres, and one that is inadvertently worsening each year. From 2004 to 2013, the country’s growth rate reached 7.5 percent, with the population ...

13.03.2015

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