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Study: Climate change already having adverse effect on labour markets globally 

Business Green

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute.

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The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

The City Fix

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Global material use is expected to more than double by 2060, with a third of this rise attributable to construction materials. “The Governments need to commit to further decarbonising the power, as well as heating and cooling energy supply.

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Why is the summer off to such an extreme start?

Grist

Climate change is involved, but natural variations in global weather, and an unfortunate dose of serendipity, are also at play. Global warming itself hasn’t suddenly accelerated this year,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a live briefing on Monday.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

As the body tries to cool down, blood vessels widen, redirecting hot blood from the core of your body toward the surface. And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. What’s more, as people get older, their sweat glands deteriorate , undermining their ability to cool down.

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

We came up with dozens of cool products and hosted tastings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For one, Harvard University has documented that kelp plays a significant role in reducing global warming. Today, 98% of all seaweed is sourced from Asia, while AKUA sources 100% of its kelp from U.S.-based

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A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice

Mr. Sustainability

Shippers could send oil, gas and metals such as nickel and palladium to Asia more quickly, potentially shaving costs. But Rosatom won’t wait for global warming to run its course. The Arctic is warming so fast that it has become an accelerator of climate change in the rest of the world.