Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Olhoff is the head of strategy, climate and planning and policy for the UNEP DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership. In 2017 two scientific warnings stand out, the U.S. A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise. These warnings are not new.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pumps in response to annually rising sea-levels. By Emily Blitstein In Miami, flooding has been a serious development topic over the last decade.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Now that there is strong evidence that heat exacerbates adverse birth outcomes, she hopes it will instigate policy change, promote awareness, and ultimately, decrease risk and disparities. “We In the last year, the hottest on record, 6.3 Breast milk is fed via tubes to a preterm infant at a neonatal intensive care unit in Washington, D.C.,

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. C may already be "out of reach" (Hood, 2020).

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While oil demand seems to be nearing its peak , there’s no question that the need for critical metals is on the rise.    In recent weeks, the US and China have been facing off in a metals tug of war through a series of policy jabs. of global sea level rise. With a consequence of potentially 5.3m

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures), 2017. TCFD, 2021.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Clair — to teach students the science behind the greenhouse effect, sea-level rise, and intensified weather events. To address this problem, in 2017 the Washington state legislature passed a multi-million dollar budget proviso for K-12 science education with an emphasis on climate science.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is here,” said Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration during a briefing on the report. The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami. Virgin Islands.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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 was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., marked a before and after.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring. The American Petroleum Institute paid millions to run its first-ever Super Bowl ad in 2017, portraying gas as an engine of innovation that powers the American way of life.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

To Jim Kessler , executive vice president for policy at the moderate public policy think tank Third Way, this framing makes perfect sense. In 2018, Barford and two colleagues published a study highlighting the vulnerability of America’s fiber cables to sea level rise, and he’s investigating how wildfires threaten mobile networks.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

The first Women's March took place on January 21, 2017 the day after Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States. The climate-induced environmental threats they face include sea-level rise and shifts in the ranges of important species of food bearing plants.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. alone, it was $306 billion in 2017, shattering records. Entire towns are wiped off the map by extreme weather. In the U.S.

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