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Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam

The Environmental Blog

The number of cold fronts has decreased over the span of the last 20 years but at the same time, anomalous events have occurred more frequently.High-intensity Typhoons tend to occur more frequently as the mean sea level rose at a rate of 3 mm per year.Above is an overall image of climate change in Vietnam. Sea-Level Rise.

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Boris Johnson ‘Missing in Action’ Ahead of COP26 Climate Summit, Say Campaigners

DeSmogBlog

It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Greenpeace UK’s Executive Director, John Sauven, said: “These pivotal climate talks require bold policies, tough targets and political will from all governments.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Their 2009 report concluded that but for the social and political impediments, the economic and technological wheels were in place to transition the world’s all-purpose energy demand to 100% WWS. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. Deploying carbon capture is a massive endeavor and we have limited time. And we’re on the clock. She said: “We have the technology today.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. Sea-level rise is obvious here, according to Larry Toomer, who owns an oyster market and restaurant in Bluffton, a fast-growing town in the southern part of the county.

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

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. At the end of 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit, COP15 , was held in Copenhagen. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

Using a full-page ad in The New York Times , the group is calling for business to advocate for policies, at all levels of government, that are consistent with what climate science is telling us we need to do — what they’re calling a “science-based climate policy agenda.” This isn’t the first attempt.