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Transatlantic collaboration aims to boost resilience of sea walls

Envirotec Magazine

In the US, the coastal sea level by 2050 is predicted to be between 0.25- 0.30 meters higher than in 2020 – and as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years before that, from 1920 to 2020. km seawall along the coastline to build resilience to sea level rise and extreme events.

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Aerial Photos Of Hurricane Ida’s Aftermath Show What ‘Code Red’ for the Planet Looks Like in South Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

“But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

On June 25-26, 1996, the European Council of Environment Ministers agreed during its meeting that “global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level and that therefore concentration levels lower than 550 ppm CO2 should guide global limitation and reduction efforts.” Limiting warming to 1.5

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