Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Climate disavowal was already happening in pre-pandemic life, but the additional stressors associated with our country’s present situation — joblessness, food insecurity, political conflict, pandemic health concerns, social isolation — make it even harder to think about environmental responsibilities.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” billion people who live in areas highly vulnerable to climate change, the report says.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Australia and the US are the second and third largest beef exporters globally, and their governments have a strong economic interest in supporting the growth of these industries, which enjoy close political ties. Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the " nine planetary boundaries ", the limits that scientists say humans must respect to keep the planet habitable, and you'll see we're already beyond the safe operating space for four of them: climate change; land-system change; biodiversity; and biogeochemical flows of phosphorus and nitrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the world's two biggest economies and emitters, the USA and China have particular responsibility for making such a "historic" Pact a reality, said Guterres, as he called on the two superpowers to come together in the mutual interests of the planet, despite their political differences. "It

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. Besides being a hub for biodiversity, it is also home to forest-dwelling tribal communities who would be evicted from their homes and their way of life. Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond? warming between 2030 and 2052. warming between 2030 and 2052.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Nations which fail to come up with the goods in 2022 will have some explaining to do, both to their own citizens and the global political and business community. Adaptation, resilience, loss and damage. Nature and biodiversity. The same goes for businesses. That is, after all, the new climate reality the world now faces.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sensible and forward-looking businesses know they need to act now to change the way they do business and more and more governments are putting in place the plans and actions to deliver a resilient, net zero economy. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C °C by the end of this century. No one is safe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The physical and transitional risks arising from climate change, nature degradation, and emerging clean technologies, coupled with cultural shifts and a polarised political backdrop and cultural, have look set to deliver a uniquely unpredictable and volatile decade, in turn exciting and not a little terrifying.

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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. And, by the way, which biodiversity are we shortest of?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Asset management giant hits back at 'disturbing' trend to prioritise politics over long-term returns for investors. Fiduciaries should always value performance over politics.". The resilience of the [reef] to recover from climate change impacts is substantially compromised.".

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