Kyoto II? Fuggedaboutit.
Stop the climate negotiations. There’s a better answer. Two words: white roofs. If stats from a paper by Hashem Akbari of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory are correct, re-roofing 100 global cities could stop 44 metric gigatons from entering the atmosphere — more than all the countries in the world combined emit now. A white-out ...
Stop the climate negotiations. There's a better answer. Two words: white roofs.
If stats from a paper by Hashem Akbari of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory are correct, re-roofing 100 global cities could stop 44 metric gigatons from entering the atmosphere -- more than all the countries in the world combined emit now.
A white-out never looked so cool.
Stop the climate negotiations. There’s a better answer. Two words: white roofs.
If stats from a paper by Hashem Akbari of the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory are correct, re-roofing 100 global cities could stop 44 metric gigatons from entering the atmosphere — more than all the countries in the world combined emit now.
A white-out never looked so cool.
Elizabeth Dickinson is International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia.
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