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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change

GreenBiz

Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. We're fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years.

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New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

The City Fix

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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Next-Generation Climate Targets: A 5-Point Plan for NDCs

The City Fix

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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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

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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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change

AGreenLiving

Aquaculture, sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity conservation: helping U.S. We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. ” Given U.S.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It then evaluates the sustainability of current practices and elaborates on technological developments in the two sectors, before critically assessing options to treat wastes generated from the plantation and milling process.

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

Business Green

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.