Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Tides are a major concern in flood contribution, especially the King Tides, seasonal tide surges traditionally occurring September and November, resulting in above average water levels and “sunny day flooding”, flooding without rain. September 2019 marked the first addition of a “bioswale” to the city’s roads.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), however, we are rapidly running out of time as we are already more than two thirds of the way there. An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology. And we’re on the clock.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair. 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.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As governments continue to be intransigent, and the fossil fuel industry uses its influence to hamstring transformational climate policies, courts represent an important lever to bring about change. 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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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Identified risks include increasingly prevalent and severe floods that destroy homes and businesses, droughts that reduce agricultural yields, and heatwaves that have been linked to an estimated 4,000 deaths in England since 2018, the CCC stressed.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward. Photo of Mark Jacobson and Stacy Clark, August 1, 2018. This would become the first detailed WWS clean energy roadmap of 50 he ultimately developed for the U.S. Jacobson didn’t stop there.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies are publishing a sustainability report, up from 86% in 2018, and 20% in 2011. · companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. In 2018, worldwide aquaculture production reached an all -time high of 114.5

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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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 That year, the American economist and 2018 Nobel laureate William D. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, belief that a single technological solution, such as carbon capture , will fix the climate crisis without the need for change in policies, lifestyles and practices may be more grounded in hope than reality. Boulder County, Colorado, lost nearly 1,000 homes to a fire on Dec. In the U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State and federal officials move forward plans and policies for water conservation, conveyance, and climate resilience. Kermanian , and Julie Miles The winter of 2022-23 brought historic levels of precipitation to California after years of deep drought , dwindling reservoirs, and groundwater depletion. By Michael G. Romey , Lucas I.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The decision cited the bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires federal agencies to undertake comprehensive studies to consider the environmental impacts of major federal actions. The polluting project, announced in 2018, would be sited in St.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

In 2018, the median household income in Queen's neighborhood was about $39,000 , compared to the state average of more than $70,300. Policy & Politics. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said. "If If you don't own anything, you're not changing nothing.". Contributors. Nicholas Kusnetz.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Hüzeir’s findings build on earlier Shell material obtained by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent and published by Climate Files and DeSmog in 2018. In a critique published in Nature in August 1972, three Shell employees argued that it was “too early” to draw policy conclusions from The Limits To Growth.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year. 8th hearing.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

” In 2018, the median household income in Queen’s neighborhood was about $39,000 , compared to the state average of more than $70,300. . “Right now, over in North, you can’t name 10 Black businesses — they ain’t there,” she said. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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GreenBiz

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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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise. . It’s not just a greenhouse gas reduction policy. It's a policy that targets the systems that create the greenhouse gases in ways that address historic inequities and provide some solutions. Orlando, Florida.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The last report, which the Trump administration tried to bury when it came out in 2018, was the most dire since the first assessment was published in 2000. 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.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. 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.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise. It’s not just a greenhouse gas reduction policy. It’s a policy that targets the systems that create the greenhouse gases in ways that address historic inequities and provide some solutions.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Nowhere is this more evident than in the blue wave that solidly rebuked the GOP's leadership in the US midterm elections of 2018. 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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