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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

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C

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

Business Green

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. Pointing towards the bad behavior of others does not make the problem go away, and working hard to make stuff sustainable is what I came here to do.