GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Mon, 09/21/2020 - 01:00. This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

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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. Both types of risk vary considerably based on business type, size, and location. Featured resources. Fiedler, T.,

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Hundreds of cities around the world are facing significant climate hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, and devastating storms, yet many still do not have adaptation and resilience plans in place to address these intensifying threats, according to a sobering new report from CDP.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas. Superflux Images via Superflux.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

But conservation successes, while still isolated, demonstrate the remarkable resilience of the seas. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Scientists say ocean life could rebound in 30 years — if we act now on Apr 5, 2020. However, progress is far from straightforward.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In early 2019, the City of Miami’s Office of Capital Improvements (OCI), honored the city’s flood prevention projects with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a backflow valve, #37 of 50, to be installed by the end of 2020 – with plans for continuation pending funding. A big element of assessment models utilizes extensive social media data mining.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation Jonathan Cook Wed, 06/17/2020 – 00:30 This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting Steven Bullock Mon, 09/28/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Trucost, part of S&P Global. Many stakeholders are involved in the initiative, across corporations and financial institutions.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Recent review articles authored by Ojala and colleagues in 2021 as well as by Cianconi and colleagues in 2020 highlight the challenges of studying this area along with the lack of representation in current research among those most vulnerable to, and those most impacted by climate change. Bowles, D.C., Annals of global health, 81(3).

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting Steven Bullock Mon, 09/28/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Trucost, part of S&P Global. Many stakeholders are involved in the initiative, across corporations and financial institutions.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It is part of a series of background papers commissioned by the Global Commission on Adaptation to inform its flagship report — Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience — which finds that changes in five key areas, including in cities, could generate USD 7.1 trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism Samantha Harris Mon, 11/16/2020 – 00:20 For decades, Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in the United States have sought environmental justice as a civil right, but now, the grave disparities in environmental harms are coming into national prominence.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

New study identifies 20 local authorities across England where thousands of properties could be lost to the sea by 2050. Nearly 200,000 English properties are at risk of being abandoned by the 2050s due to climate change-induced sea level rise, according to a major new study published today.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission Gil Friend Mon, 09/21/2020 – 01:00 The world (well, most of it) attacked COVID-19 as if it were a true global emergency: with extraordinary speed, scale and scope. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil fuel companies have recognized the threat of climate change and extreme weather enough to raise their platforms because of sea level rise, build seawalls and floating gates, and publish climate resiliency reports — but not enough to stop fossil fuel expansion and start decarbonization.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 00:15. The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s. Barry Yeoman. If it doesn’t, people die.".

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In addition to our work to ensure that we are able to source fibre from healthy and resilient forests, we also recognise the impact of climate change on water resources. Droughts, floods, melting glaciers, sea-level rise and storms occur more frequently owing to changing climate.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic Barry Yeoman Wed, 07/01/2020 – 00:15 When the COVID-19 outbreak first reached Louisiana and residents were ordered to stay at home, Marie Marlene V. Foret tapped into some skills she learned seven decades ago.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Mon, 07/06/2020 - 01:00. Young leaders of color building resilient communities. And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Nevertheless, by 2020, Trevelyan appeared to have warmed to the green agenda. When she was appointed Boris Johnson’s climate adaptation and resilience champion, she said the UK was meeting its net zero target “head on” with a “drive to renewables which takes us out of coal”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice Kristoffer Tigue Mon, 07/06/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. Indeed, in 2020 the U.S. link] — Markwayne Mullin (@RepMullin) February 26, 2020.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:00. GreenBiz recently spoke with eight chief sustainability officers and mayors that are part of the Climate Mayors network to understand what actions they are taking to ensure climate justice is embedded into their climate resiliency plans. Marissa Aho, chief of resilience officer. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Mon, 08/03/2020 - 01:00. This plan isn’t the first to point out that America’s internet infrastructure is in dire need of an upgrade , but it is unusual to see lawmakers frame better internet access as an important step toward building climate resilience. You’ve got to build resilience into communities but also people," Kessler said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

John Bel Edwards established in August 2020, Parfait-Dardar’s service doesn’t give her any special power to help those suffering around her, some of whom are still without power and water. On August 19, 2020, he issued an executive order on climate change, committing Louisiana to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Simultaneously, it will also need to meet rising demand from other fossil fuel switchovers, such as electric water heaters, heat pumps and stoves to replace the millions of similar appliances currently fueled by fossil natural gas. The infrastructure bill. Of the $15 billion that remains for electric vehicles, $2.5 Edwards , William J.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

The digital divide worsens the inequitable impacts of the climate crisis Maddie Stone Mon, 08/03/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. “That’s a huge deal.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans Jesse Klein Mon, 07/20/2020 – 02:00 As COVID-19 rampages through vulnerable minority populations with tragic consequences, and protests for racial justice surge among a similar demographic, city climate planners see a renewed focus on climate justice.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami. On California’s coast, rising seas have eaten away at bluffs, causing stretches of road to collapse into the water. C aribbean What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico’s energy resilience?

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