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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

Unsustainable

In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. The city took a series of coordinated action so that the experience of 2006 was not repeated. And most of the cities, which are still rapidly expanding, are not prepared for it, although there are a few exceptions.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

Business needs to, in the words of Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp , “unleash the most powerful tool they have to fight climate change: their political influence.”. In 2006, some of these same NGOs formed the U.S. It’s an important discussion to have right now and this initiative could have an impact.