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Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let’s do the same for fossil fuels
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/cigarette-ads-were-banned-decades-ago-let%E2%80%99s-do-same-for-fossil%C2%A0fuels... , CC BY-NC-SA The number of people dying from climate change is already comparable to smoking-related deaths. One study ... than five million people a year died due to the effects of climate change . With the frequency of heat waves, severe storms, floods and ...
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Compliance and enforcement in a brave new (green) world: best practices and technologies for green governance
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/compliance-and-enforcement-in-brave-new-green-world-best-practices-and-technologies-for-green... deployed to address grand environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion, the use of these ... governance must be carefully considered as we try to tackle climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, pollution, and waste. This is ...
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Understanding multifunctional Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands using ecosystem services—a baseline
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/understanding-multifunctional-bay-fundy-dykelands-and-tidal-wetlands-using-ecosystem-services... wetlands around the dynamic Bay of Fundy in the face of climate change and sea-level rise, at the outset of the national NSERC ResNet ... uses, given rising sea levels and storm surges expected with climate change ( Lieske 2015 ; van Proosdij et al. 2018b ). Such change ...
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The Future of Oceans RSC Atlantic
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Food Systems Innovation to Nurture Equity and Resilience Globally (Food SINERGY): insights from the Food SINERGY network
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/food-systems-innovation-to-nurture-equity-and-resilience-globally-food-sinergy-insights-from... armed conflict, political disruptions, and numerous climate change-driven phenomena have, unfortunately, given us multiple ... nutrition and health disparities are broadening, and climate change brings new curveballs that affect the food system ( Shukla et ...
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3 technologies poised to change food and the planet
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/3-technologies-poised-to-change-food-and-planet... is lost . If humanity is to have a hope of addressing climate change, we must reimagine farming. COVID-19 has also exposed ... and drawbacks to all approaches and we cannot achieve our climate and food security goals without also embracing agricultural ...
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2021 Appointments to the Order of Canada
https://rsc-src.ca/en/news/2021-appointments-to-order-canadaAppointed an Officer Pieter Cullis, O.C., FRSC | Elected 2004 The University of British Columbia
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Task Force on Knowledge Systems Resilience Biographies
https://rsc-src.ca/en/programmes/task-force-knowledge-system-resilience/task-force-knowledge-system-resilience/task-forceSharon Straus Co-Chair
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Cooler Communities: Mapping Urban Temperature and Enhancing Building Resilience in a Decarbonized and Electrified Canada
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/cooler-communities... an interdisciplinary team of experts in engineering, AI, climate science, and psychology to solve how Canadian cities can withstand climate shocks while simultaneously cutting emissions and advancing equity. The ...
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Freshwater Fish Populations are Failing and Forgotten – Even in Canada
https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/freshwater-fish-populations-are-failing-and-forgotten-%E2%80%93-even-in-canada... effects on freshwater fish. There is no question that climate change exacerbates these threats even further. The federal ... fish species deserve special attention. Environment and Climate Change Canada has embarked on a promising new pan-Canadian approach to ...