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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

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Around 2010, authorities in Surat began a process that strengthened understanding of how more intensive periods of projected rainfall due to climate change would magnify the risk of floods. The flooding was caused by an emergency release from the upstream Ukai reservoir.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

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degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). 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. BP Energy Economics. Lindgren, K.,

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. It hails the MBSD project as a key element of its $50 billion master plan to do just that.

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

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Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This was coupled with another statement , that of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which also recognized the importance of limiting warming to below 2ºC. It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. C: the Closing Window.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

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Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. Arctic sea ice extent averaged for September 2020 was 3.92 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. How is the Arctic doing?