EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise. Mitigation efforts could include stopping deforestation , decarbonizing operations , and slashing methane emissions.

Resilience 52

Resilience Sea level rise Policy Soil 52

The City Fix

MAY 1, 2024

By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction targets and other measures that countries promise.

Sea level rise 69

Sea level rise Oceania Biodiversity Methane 69

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Typically, a population will expand until it meets carrying capacity, or the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support without collapse; however, agriculture allowed humans to sidestep constraints of the natural environment, which gave way for society to continue to innovate and grow. .

Resilience 78

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The water used to irrigate the Central Valley and its $17 billion agricultural economy, and the drinking water for about 25 million people, could become salty and unusable. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Brackish water from San Francisco Bay would then flow inland.

Soil 90

Soil Methane Carbon Organic 90

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

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. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. It is other physics: water will expand when heated.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Some scientists believed the build-up of atmospheric CO2 could trigger enough heating to result in a “complete melting of Arctic sea ice,” “widespread disruption of agriculture,” and sea level rise of “more than twenty feet.”

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

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.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Politics 98