Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

degrees C of warming, the goal set by nations in the Paris Agreement in 2015. I don’t want to throw in the towel, but for some things that are likely, such as sea-level rise and coral reef loss, it would be prudent to be planning.”. degree threshold.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

More than a decade later, in January 2015, heavy rains swept through the two countries again, producing flooding in many of the same areas, killing nearly 300 people, and displacing just over 300,000. Then, by pulling global population data for 2000 and 2015, they calculated how much populations changed in affected areas during that period.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Global temperature rise is just one measure of how the climate is changing. Scientists also track concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, sea-level rise and the intensity of heatwaves and flooding. The review, when published in 2015, found that the "concept, in which 2C of warming is considered safe, is inadequate ".

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A page on sea-level rise says “levels have been rising at a fairly steady pace since at least the mid-1800s,” but the rate has actually more than doubled in the 2000s when compared to most of the 20th century.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

degrees C — the target that became a global rallying cry following the advocacy of vulnerable island nations during the 2015 U.N. The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5 climate negotiations — is basically out of reach, even under the most ambitious policy scenario modeled by the researchers. While the 1.5-degree

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Climate groups are increasingly concerned about a lack of action from the government ahead of the summit, the largest of its kind since the historic Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

Nine of the ten warmest years have all occurred in the last decade and the five warmest years have all occurred in the past five years (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014). degrees Celsius warmer than 2011-2015". C above pre-industrial norms.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The city's heat index reached 108 degrees F, the highest since August 2015. Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise. Miami is known internationally for its risk for coastal flooding and sea-level rise," Gilbert said.

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Grist

AUGUST 14, 2019

For years now now, we’ve been hearing warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — the global average cautioned against as part of the 2015 Paris accord. Cold, heat, flood, drought, and sea-level rise all pose significant risks to U.S. The earth is warming at an uneven rate.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

With a projected global sea-level rise of 7-15 inches by 2065, according to the Southeast Florida Climate Compact 2015 projections, Miami communities stand to undergo drastic changes in development to combat the effects.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Overview: The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a requirement for countries to submit more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (greenhouse gas emissions targets) every five years. Between 2015 and 2020, Canada delivered $2.65 until November 12, with a particular focus on relevancy for Canada. CLIMATE TARGETS.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

She became the museum’s chief sustainability officer in 2015, as a Detroit Revitalization Fellow through Wayne State University. “And a quarter are in zones that are highly vulnerable to sea level rise and severe storms,” she added. “Over a third of museums in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. He concluded that limiting CO2 to a “relatively safe level for the environment” would require immediate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Arctic shipping is increasing as melting sea ice opens up new routes that allow shipping companies to capitalise on shorter trans-Arctic voyages. Meanwhile, black carbon emissions are also on the rise, with Clean Arctic Alliance noting that black carbon emissions increased 85 per cent between 2015 and 2019.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. In 2013 the stock of manageable assets was $143 trillion as estimated by the Financial Stability Board, updated based on EIU data in 2015 suggests that number is $207 trillion. According to the U.K.’s

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Those forced to permanently migrate as sea levels rise, for example, correlate with long-term, indirect psychological impacts such as higher rates of anxiety, depression, PTSD, aggression, and substance abuse, among others. The anticipated or confirmed need to relocate amplifies existing intergenerational traumas. Bowles, D.C.,

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first. Congress between 2015 and 2019. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise. Companion Report.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

billion in 2015. But that’s not likely to happen with current levels of commitment in global governments: The important Paris climate accord of 2015, in theory, agrees to hold warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

billion in 2015. But that’s not likely to happen with current levels of commitment in global governments: The important Paris climate accord of 2015, in theory, agrees to hold warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. of how the climate crisis affects people.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The survey results reflect a level of skepticism that governments will get their act together and crack down on emissions. climate summit in Paris in 2015, officials agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees C — a goal that island nations imperiled by sea-level rise said was essential to their survival.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. In 2015, Cáceres won the Goldman Prize, the world’s most prestigious environmental award, for leading a campaign to stop construction of an internationally funded hydroelectric dam on a river sacred to her Lenca people.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

All of this took place just days after a series of other landmark events , including the International Energy Agency’s finding that to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement, investors must stop funding new oil, gas and coal projects — immediately. Still, the ruling is immediately enforceable. And it’s not just climate.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. One of the most tragic recent oil spills took place in Mauritius which is one of the island countries that are at risk from sea level rise due to climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

Research based on our 2015 survey shows that when an IAM is recalibrated to use the discount rate and damage function preferred by survey respondents, the SCC value increases more than ten-fold. Additional expert elicitations like this survey can help establish the appropriate assumptions to be used in IAMs.".

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

When the EPA found high levels of the chemical in the air near a school, "that's really what sparked the people to join me and we formed this Concerned Citizens of St. His group has been trying ever since to get Denka Corporation, which bought the plant from DuPont in 2015, to limit emissions.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

The case brought by West Virginia demanded the EPA should not have the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan in 2015 – in essence limiting emissions across whole states.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

All of this took place just days after a series of other landmark events , including the International Energy Agency's (IEA) finding that to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement, investors must stop funding new oil, gas and coal projects - immediately. Still, the ruling is immediately enforceable. And it's not just climate.

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