Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for SurvivalLime Tree, 1992 - 291 pages |
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... greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases and less heavily coded ones like climate change and sea - level rise . Greenhouses in which tropical plants are grown in temperate coun- tries are artificial , protected , controlled environments ...
... greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases and less heavily coded ones like climate change and sea - level rise . Greenhouses in which tropical plants are grown in temperate coun- tries are artificial , protected , controlled environments ...
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Forging a Partnership for Survival Shridath S. Ramphal. add new greenhouse gases , like CFCs , which are compounds of our own making . Together these two groups of emissions , produced mainly by industrial countries , account for some 80 ...
Forging a Partnership for Survival Shridath S. Ramphal. add new greenhouse gases , like CFCs , which are compounds of our own making . Together these two groups of emissions , produced mainly by industrial countries , account for some 80 ...
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... greenhouse gases . Here again the information is far from reliable . An equally important matter , one of principle , is whether the " survival emissions " from subsistence farming in poor countries should be judged on the same basis as ...
... greenhouse gases . Here again the information is far from reliable . An equally important matter , one of principle , is whether the " survival emissions " from subsistence farming in poor countries should be judged on the same basis as ...
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