Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question. C or well below 2C - provided governments with the "foundation to act".

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Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 80

The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Africa Sea level rise Biodiversity Resilience 119

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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Sea level rise Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 36

The City Fix

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A New Yorker may not think about the forested Catskills Mountain Range upstate as she pours a glass of water. Londoners probably don’t consider the Amazon rainforest as they watch the rain falling on city parks. And folks in Addis.

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Sea level rise Carbon-neutral Biodiversity Hydropower 98

Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

But climate resilience remains a much less chartered territory for firms, with sustainability strategies typically focusing on water, carbon, and waste reduction, and having little or nothing to say about climate resilience. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building.

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Resilience Climate change Cooling Sea level rise 39

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . Resilience Thinking and Sustainability. The Holocene.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

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. At the moment, there is a lot of excitement about planting trees to absorb greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sea level rise Climate change Biodiversity Ethics 195

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But the solutions are there On the other hand, the report stresses there is still time to deliver a low-carbon, sustainable economy where climate-resilient development becomes the norm. And the private sector is playing a starring role in this collective failure, as the actors that make the real economy work.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Global warming Resilience 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In September, the UN General Assembly meets in its 75th session to, among other things, review the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). WWF will be leading calls for that session to declare a planetary emergency and commit to a new deal for nature and people. Key to deilvering such a deal will be two other critical 2020 UN meetings.

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COP Aviation Sea level rise Climate change 41

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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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It addresses the position of humans in the global (eco)system, and interprets and applies sustainability as a multi- and inter-disciplinary concept. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

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. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 80

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.". Our commitments focus on areas where we can drive real change.

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Climate change Sea level rise Sustainability Logging 36

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The pressure had been sustained throughout 2009 and, with the debate at its peak, a new climate summit – COP15 in Copenhagen – arrived at the end of the year. ” Sea level rise over centuries or millennia is already guaranteed, regardless of what is done now. target that AOSIS had pushed for at the previous COP. .”

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COP Building Energy Monitoring Politics Global warming 94

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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Climate change Resilience Fossil fuels Government 67

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The main green initiative Zahawi appears to have been praised for was his launch of a “Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy” to make schools greener, including a new Natural History GCSE exam, earlier this year while he was education secretary. Chris Heaton-Harris – Northern Ireland Secretary.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Government Policy 88

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Below is my annual year-end review of sustainability that was posted at HBR.org right after Christmas. Every year, I look for important themes in sustainability that will have lasting impact on society, from glaring evidence of global megatrends to inspiring stories of corporate action. (Hi to my blog readers. Happy new year.

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Sustainability Sea level rise Climate change Plastics 60