Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

While unchecked global warming could knock 7.6 per cent off GDP, net zero could boost global GDP by 3.8 Climate change could cost the global economy $178tr over the next 50 years if left unchecked, amounting to a 7.6 per cent, according to Deloitte. But inaction is a far costlier choice. The data bears that out.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 global warming trajectory, therefore, economic support backed by reskilling and training for workers in carbon intensive sectors will be critical as governmens flesh out their recovery plans.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This would mean a doubling of the urban environment and equivalent to 70 million people moving to cities every year for the next three decades, with close to 90 per cent of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

In some areas, including the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central and eastern Asia, and western North America, droughts are becoming more common and severe due to climate change, which also increases the probability of fires occurring and total burned area in some parts of all continents. Flooding in 2019 destroyed her house.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The scale and scope of what is needed to reduce these climate risks has increased worldwide, and action to boost adaptation and resilience is also increasing. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Deforestation and fires have soared in the Amazon Rainforest in recent years, while huge global demand for products such as palm oil, soy, and timber is also driving destruction of critical forests in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In its comment to DeSmog, the AHDB spokesperson also used GWP* to claim that “methane from UK livestock since 1990 has not caused global warming”. It’s notable that the solutions pursued by some of the GMA members are not always in the interests of Global South producers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 Asia dominates the market with 97.4 The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. million metric tons from 2.2

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. A small kingdom in Asia seems to be offering an alternative At a time when citizens are desperately asking their governments to take action, there is one country that is already carbon negative; it is the land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With all the changes that are happening rapidly to our environment and the very recent fires in Australia and floods in Asia, the so-called deception turned into reality. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming. This is what should keep us going. Yes, we are small.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2022

An interactive map created by Columbia University researchers showcases where extreme WB temperatures have been recorded, with most of those close or above WB 35ºC occurring in South Asia or the Middle East. Figure 4: Left: Urban heat resilience framework consisting of a combination of heat mitigation and heat management strategies.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

If we move to keep global warming to the 2C limit set by the Paris Agreement, the energy matrix will change - and change profoundly.". However, the new scenario still expects gas demand to remain resilient. By 2050, Brent may slide to $10-$18, Wood Mackenzie said.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The spectre of such impacts should be galvanising urgent action, it adds, warning that climate-induced mass migrations, pandemics, and conflicts over resources will be inevitable unless sweeping measures are taken to slash emissions and bolster climate resilience. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks. Avoided deforestation is a the mos impactful nature-based solution for achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Yeb Saño, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Head of the Greenpeace delegation attending the COP, said: "The agreement for a Loss and Damage Finance Fund marks a new dawn for climate justice. Governments and non-state actors must unite to limit global warming to 1.5 We remain committed to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

While Moomaw lauds intensifying efforts to plant billions of young trees, he says that preserving existing mature forests will have an even more profound effect on slowing global warming in the coming decades, since immature trees sequester far less CO2 than older ones. That’s right. But don’t leave out the United States.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C

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