Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. This is a £12m challenge fund, that British and international organisations can bid into, to support countries in Africa, Asia and South America to develop their green industries.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

From scenes of scared Americans fleeing to Mexico in The Day After Tomorrow to the Biden administration’s discussion of migration as a matter of national security , climate migration is often viewed by wealthier nations as one of the many negative impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

Climate change 68

Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The IPCC - a group of thousands of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the UN - has released yet another blockbuster dossier on the state of the planet's climate. Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. The food and resource security risk is monumental.

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 50

Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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COP Government South America Carbon 53

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.)

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Politics Agriculture 90

Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Its proposed $369 billion expenditure to address climate change represents less than 2% of the country’s annual GDP. Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. Perhaps we’re not so optimistic after all.

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Climate change Carbon-neutral South America Asia 52