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How Improved Housing in Under-Served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

The City Fix

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Is human activity responsible for the climate emergency? New report calls it ‘unequivocal.’

Grist

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? More emissions also means the land and oceans become weaker at soaking up that carbon pollution, making heating even worse. When was the last time we saw heating this fast? Temperatures this high?

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

Business Green

And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. The Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance will go a long way in fostering these developments.". African countries team up for new green hydrogen initiative.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.