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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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What effect will the “Code Red” climate report have on COP26?

Renewable Energy World

Anybody who’s watched the news over the past month will know that the effects of climate change are becoming too pressing to ignore. Put together by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the comprehensive report confirms that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans, and land.”

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'Loss and damage is happening now': UN Secretary-General calls for action on climate finance at Petersberg Dialogue

Business Green

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Urgency and consistency must be the watchwords for UK climate action in 2020

Business Green

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C It's time to act.

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Media Brief: COP26 and the implications for Canada

Clean Energy Canada

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits. As part of its COP presidency, the U.K.

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'We can end the climate wars': Can Australia's 'greenslide' election provide renewed momentum for COP27?

Business Green

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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Improving Climate Resilience with Satellite Data: A Conversation with US Government Leaders

Planet Pulse

Robert Cardillo , Planet Federal’s Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board, was joined by Christine Urbanowicz , Senior Spatial Geospatial Data Scientist, USAID , Kathleen White , Program Director of Climate Change, DoD OSD ODASD (E&ER), U.S. We are in the midst of a climate crisis. “I’m Planet’s Perspective.