GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A global energy company wanted to undertake a physical risk assessment to understand the firm’s potential exposure to climate hazards, such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and sea-level rise that could lead to supply chain disruptions and increased operating costs for the business.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. The stakes are high.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Mountains in the Arctic in 2012: The region can expect an ice-free summer “at least once before 2050”, under even the most optimistic scenarios described in the latest IPCC report (image credit: duncan c , CC BY-NC 2.0

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The City Fix

JANUARY 5, 2023

Africa’s population is growing faster than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to more than double by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City shows, is combining with climate.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

But conservation successes, while still isolated, demonstrate the remarkable resilience of the seas. The scientists say there is now the knowledge to create an ocean renaissance for wildlife by 2050 and with it bolster the services that the world’s people rely on, from food to coastal protection to climate stability.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

All 154 commitments included targets to cut emissions by 2030, and 76 included long-term targets stretching out to 2050 and beyond. The study assessed 154 pledges submitted by countries at the end of COP26. The difference between 1.5 The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”. While the 1.5-degree

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise. Miami is known internationally for its risk for coastal flooding and sea-level rise," Gilbert said.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

As global temperatures rise, more land-based ice melts, leading to sea level rise. The report warns that by 2050, major flooding events will have increased in intensity. The study has identified some regions that are likely to be affected the most by the continuous rise in sea levels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. Some of these impacts are now thought to be irreversible within timespans stretching to thousands of years.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 30, 2019

The melting of the ice caps affects everyone — particularly Southeast Asia — and the world must strive to meet its Paris Agreement targets to avoid dramatic sea level rise from 2050, say polar explorer Robert Swan and scientist Adam Switzer

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971. The main driver of the global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s and the decrease in Arctic sea-ice is human behaviour. The past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850. We are responsible for 90% of the melt. .”

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2021

Then there’s the melting sea ice, retreating glaciers and rising oceans. In the last 50 years, the sea level rise has sped up nearly three times as fast as it increased between 1901 and 1971. Cut emissions in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 and we might survive.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

One of the starkest conclusions of the IPCC report is that even if the world moves immediately to slash emissions so as to deliver net zero by 2050, climate impacts will continue to intensify over the coming decades. Under higher emissions scenarios, two metres of sea level rise cannot be ruled out.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

"I think it's really important to reinforce the point that net zero doesn't solve this problem - the climate will go on changing, at least until 2050," she explained. And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sea-level rise and storm surges alone could cost coastal cities USD 1 trillion each year by 2050, affecting more than 800 million people, the report estimated.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Environment Agency has today published a sobering new report, warning the world is failing to adapt to escalating climate impacts, which are set to see sea levels rise by up 78cm by the 2080s at the same time as flood and drought risks soar. billion extra litres of water per day if no action is taken before 2050.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some invest in greener technology to meet the reduction targets in 2050 (green bars), while others do not invest and pay a high carbon tax or experience lost revenue resulting from bans on the use of certain materials (red bars). This shows a rapid increase in carbon tax, with companies reacting in various ways.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Morrison was eventually pressured into announcing a 2050 net zero target for Australia last year, but critics were quick to point out that the plan for getting there lacked detail or credibility. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

And while both have stated their commitment to the UK's 2050 net zero target and expanding home insulation, they have so far offered little further detail.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) joined the international Race to Zero Campaign, which aims to reach net zero carbon emissions around the world by 2050. Louisiana’s approach to tackling the climate crisis is steeped in cognitive dissonance. James Parish, even after a judge revoked air quality permits issued by the state.

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some invest in greener technology to meet the reduction targets in 2050 (green bars), while others do not invest and pay a high carbon tax or experience lost revenue resulting from bans on the use of certain materials (red bars). This shows a rapid increase in carbon tax, with companies reacting in various ways.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business action, supported by government regulations, investments and incentives, is absolutely critical for transitioning to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Net zero by 2050 is not enough Yesterday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his response to the IPCC's findings to pronounce that richer nations' 2050 net zero targets would need to be brought forward to 2040, while those emerging economies yet to set mid-century targets would need to do so.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From forecasting a particular number of degrees of warming by 2100, setting net-zero targets for 2025 / 2030 / 2045 / 2050, and the narrative that we have just a decade left to keep future temperatures spiralling above 1.5ºC. Dates tend to loom large in the climate crisis conversation. It's time to act.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 up to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050 (Fairley, 2009). (Welch, 2019). National Academies committee member Jennifer Wilcox of Worcester Polytechnic Institute indicates the technology is viable.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. The stakes are high.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Freshwater use – Water is becoming increasingly scarce – by 2050 about half a billion people are likely to be subject to water insecurity. Mass coral bleaching, or the expulsion of the tiny colorful algae that live in coral tissue and provide corals with energy, has significantly increased over the past 40 years.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise. Hamilton said Harvard’s net-zero-by-2050 target is irrelevant to the idea that these investments are illegal today. Harvard declined to comment on the complaint.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With 70 per cent of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2050, the report pays special attention to the risks global warming presents to urban populations, and the ways that cities can be developed to adapt to and mitigate against climate risks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Well-known examples including sea level rise resulting from the disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctica ice sheets, or the release into the atmosphere of climate-warming methane deposits from thawing Siberian permafrost. It responded by setting a net-zero target for financed emissions by 2050.

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