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Study: Climate change already having adverse effect on labour markets globally 

Business Green

hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. The report recommends that early warning systems, maximum safe temperature thresholds, shift working, and cooling solutions, should all be explored as a means of helping businesses and workers to adapt to worsening heat-related risks.

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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

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Moody's: Green, social and sustainability bonds to close in on $300bn in 2021

Business Green

Although the pandemic caused the green bonds market to cool slightly in 2020 after several years of strong growth, social and sustainability bonds in contrast hit record highs, bringing last year's total issuance for all three markets to $225bn, the credit ratings and financial analyst giant said.

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How Much Energy Do Data Centers Really Use?

Energy Innovation

The electricity used by these IT devices is ultimately converted into heat, which must be removed from the data center by cooling equipment that also runs on electricity. On average, servers and cooling systems account for the greatest shares of direct electricity use in data centers, followed by storage drives and network devices (Figure 1).

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

The hardware test was part of a bigger plan to see if strategically releasing aerosols might help cool the planet by reflecting sunlight. According to a TIAA Institute study published in 2016, fewer than one in 10 women faculty are full professors. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, U.K.,

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management. Venus Lun, S.