Pretty much is very different than very :) I can say "the car goes very fast" or I can say "that car is much faster than the other one" or I can say "that is pretty much the fastest car around" I can also say "I am pretty much done with school" That implies that I am done with school, but maybe I have one or two things left to do to make it official.

First of all, the sentence is not well written. But you might understand it better if you pause between version and emerged. In fact, it could use a coma in that spot to help with the meaning. That would be incorrect because it would change the meaning. The first "version" is the subject and "emerged" is the verb.

I'm wondering if it is the slogan for the brand

Yes, that's correct

I think it is a movie that will be made based on his novel

Training Writing - Global warming

It’s broadly known that the global temperature has  been rising abnormally over the past decades, although few effective measures have been taken to solve this problem. Although temperature levels have always fluctuated, data from the IPCC and other international institutions clearly show the average temperature is rising over time. In other words every year is becoming, on average, warmer and warmer. Governments have called summits to discuss the problem, environmental protection laws have been written and companies have been subject to increased regulation; but unfortunately all these actions have failed to produce results. It seems as if we will never stabalize this problem, much less turn it around.