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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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GTM Podcasts Live: From Our Homes to Yours

GreenTechMedia

Meanwhile, political leaders are trying to get money to struggling people and businesses, setting the stage for trillions more dollars in spending on infrastructure. If you have any other show topic ideas, tag The Energy Gang and The Interchange on Twitter. How will it all pan out? We’re trying to figure it out, just like you.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

And then there are “sub-systemic” shocks, more localized climate-related impacts that “can undermine the financial health of community banks, agricultural banks or local insurance markets, leaving small businesses, farmers and households without access to critical financial services.” It placed the price tag at up to 10.5

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Study: Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by climate crisis

Business Green

Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by the climate crisis, yet only one in 10 have undertaken climate risk assessments and regard the issue as a priority, a news study from Earth Science AI company Cervest has revealed. Bassi said at the time that the collaboration could help improve the economy's long-term resilience.

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How to bridge the SME net zero financing gap

Business Green

Firms with fewer than 250 employees - the traditional cut-off point for SMEs - may individually have a fraction of the climate impact of their corporate counterparts, but they together make up as much as 90 per cent of all businesses worldwide, according to the World Bank. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them.

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Chicago Takes Big Oil to Court, Adding Another Heavyweight to the Fight

DeSmogBlog

Since that time the city has done a number of things to improve community resilience, but we expect more heatwaves in the future as the world continues to warm — so we have to constantly update our policies and prepare for extreme heat,” he added.