Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that. So it's absolutely illogical that we are not doing it.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise. In some places, entire villages and more than a mile of coastline have been lost to the sea. Coastal wetlands can defend communities from storm surge and sea level rise.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. Lobbying for a 1.5C

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building. We have to learn new behaviours and new aesthetics."

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This transition is one driving force behind the serious and rapid reductions in biodiversity, resulting in impacts on water flows and on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and other important elements. Industry and the Anthropocene.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The concept of nature-based solutions broadly refers to working with and enhancing nature to address major challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and poverty alleviation. Tree-planting, or any nature-based solution, must not become a way for companies or governments to keep burning fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. Example: I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the report’s recommendation to fund state governments to pilot living shoreline projects in at-risk coastal counties is addressed in seven congressional bills. ” Given U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

October's Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) summit in China will review the Aichi targets which seek to halt and reverse the catastrophic loss of nature and wildlife that our species is driving across the planet. On top of that, the UK government has given the go-ahead for a third runway at Heathrow, to expand our access to flights even more.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.". Governments must do all they can to prevent the 1.5C

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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. 2/2) [link].

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

We are all aware that climate change is a real threat, and in order for it to be tackled effectively we need to work together as businesses, governments, NGOs and individuals. Droughts, floods, melting glaciers, sea-level rise and storms occur more frequently owing to changing climate.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

On June 25-26, 1996, the European Council of Environment Ministers agreed during its meeting that “global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level and that therefore concentration levels lower than 550 ppm CO2 should guide global limitation and reduction efforts.” Limiting warming to 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The dust has barely settled on the Conservative Party leadership race and the new UK government has already begun confirming many climate campaigners’ worst fears about the direction Liz Truss intends to take the country in. The government will now simply be covering them through general taxation – a fairer approach, many would argue.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. The report outlines steps every level of government can take to combat the climate crisis. Its cities have gobbled up more than 1.3

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

government agencies issued the U.S. Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. It wasn’t just the IPCC that told a stark story. Thirteen U.S. And more than 100 U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In addition to the pandemic we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. As this year comes to an end rising emissions are exhausting our carbon budgets. Many eco-systems will be lost and sea ice will disappear as will glaciers. This could contribute to a sea-level rise of up to 10 meters.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In addition to the pandemic we are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. As this year comes to an end rising emissions are exhausting our carbon budgets. The fossil fuel industry continues to be the primary source of emissions and governments around the world continue to subsidize this climate destroying source of energy.

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