Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. This month, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2020

Located at the heart of the campus, the Center for Computing & Data Sciences will be the university’s first major teaching center in half a century and is slated for completion in 2022. The tower will also be built 5 feet above the city for Boston’s suggested level for sea level rise.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. degrees. “It All this doesn’t mean that the 1.5-degree

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

” If approved by regulators, the battery will come online in June 2022, ahead of the coal plant retirement in September of that year. Rising above Hawaii's tsunamis. It will sit 55 feet above sea level, near an engineered harbor that provides physical barriers in the event of tsunamis or sea level rise.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. They’ve predicted debilitating heat waves, crushing droughts, and rising seas. on Jan 19, 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

AR6 presented five scenarios, on a sliding scale from ‘best’ to ‘worst’, although a full appraisal of the likelihood of each is awaited in further installments of the report, to be released in 2022. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, said the report “must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels.”.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

and 2 degrees of warming is the difference between life and death for many of the world’s most vulnerable people — and the difference between survival and extinction for some entire countries subject to sea level rise. The difference between 1.5 While the 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. He's a "speech writer and consultant" for "companies operating in the energy sector" pic.twitter.com/kuslf0a0AA — Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) July 19, 2022.

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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. of warming could carry unforeseen risks , such as the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsing at current levels of warming.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

2022 saw flooding, drought and severe. We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts.

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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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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The evidence is overwhelming that Earth’s climate is changing in dangerous ways because of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, and it has been overwhelming for many years. Army (@USArmy) January 8, 2022. At the same time, they recognize overwhelming evidence and act on it. In the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn.   Lots of spice for clean investment this week. of dollars put to work.

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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. 2/2) [link].

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. Climate Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Make Key Advances. Supreme Court’s limitation of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Trandahl’s salary and compensation in 2022 exceeded $1.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have long dragged our feet on making these transitions, particularly as it pertains to limiting fossil fuels used to produce electricity and for transportation. Most people understand the general impacts of climate change: sea-level rise, worsening weather events, severe heat, etc., and 2 degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Bordera told the Guardian the leak was a result of concerns that the report's conclusions could be watered down ahead of publication in 2022. DiNapoli, who is trustee of the third largest public pension plan in the US, confirmed the move as he this week also extended the list of fossil fuel firms the fund is to restrict investments in.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel–friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state’s utility regulatory committee. Early on in the 2022 election, the Party’s executive committee endorsed Lewis alone.

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