Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. Simple choices like this can unlock change tremendously.”. The impacts are already here.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Honolulu’s suit is demanding monetary damages to help cover the steep costs of responding and adapting to climate impacts, such as extreme flooding, coastal erosion, and sea level rise. The case is one of more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits brought against Big Oil in the U.S.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued that the world’s climate experts should take action — by not taking action.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s , when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2C would "push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation had experienced". became the acceptable limit to rising temperatures? So why did 1.5C

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. We’ve got to change that, and I think there is a general increase in awareness, an awakening if you will. One jokester called it The Great Awokening.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. It was the first in the world to establish that their government has a legal duty to protect its citizens from dangerous climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

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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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the immediate term, businesses will have to cope with these supply chain woes, while also meeting increased consumer demands. In fact, workplace disruptions caused by climate change could lead to more than $2 trillion in productivity losses by 2030. Experts are warning that full recovery could take years.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear how critical it is to radically alter the path of carbon emissions to hold the world to 1.5 The results of climate change will be unrelenting.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear how critical it is to radically alter the path of carbon emissions to hold the world to 1.5 The results of climate change will be unrelenting.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. This was the first time we “met,” albeit via a cross-country phone call.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Nine Planetary Boundaries.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change. Climate change is a cruel phenomenon. Those least able to mitigate climate pollutants and adapt to the changing climate are those who will suffesSaasr the most. But climate change’s cruelty extends to American governance, too.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. But in some areas, this water is actually creeping higher, thanks to rising sea levels and more intense rainfall , bringing a surge of problems for which few communities are prepared.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk. But it is also here that things start to go wrong, because a "financial and investment view" of climate risk should incorporate the very risks Kirk insists we should not worry about.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The planet's extreme situation demands a much more aggressive approach, argue Imagine's Paul Polman, Agder Energi's Steffen Syvertsen, and Bjørn K Haugland from Skift Business Climate Leaders. Until recently, most of us thought that the climate crisis was far away. Climate change is at our doorstep.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. Climate change impacts are not a distant prospect, but today's reality, affecting nature, people's lives and infrastructure everywhere, and scientific evidence on the scale of the threat is becoming stronger all the time.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

Oil and Gas Majors Receive New Marching Orders It was a big month for how oil and gas companies approach climate change. First, in a landmark ruling, Dutch courts ordered Shell to cut emissions 45% by 2030, in order to be consistent with the Paris Climate Accords. that’s a lot of demand). degrees celsius.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

The launch took place at the first-ever Green Hydrogen Global Assembly in Barcelona, with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, the Green Hydrogen Organisation, the African Development Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Of President-elect Joe Biden's many campaign commitments to address the climate crisis, the most significant is the United States re-joining the Paris climate agreement. Climate change is a global issue and requires an international response, and American leadership is critical to success.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

However, failure to inculcate the reality of climate change into business strategy is a matter of survival. Businesses that fail to address the threats associated with climate change will be dangerously unprepared for the realities of the world we live in. They will also find themselves in mortal danger.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In some parts of the country, climate change may be the most controversial subject that science teachers bring up in their classrooms. But the majority of public school teachers don’t deal with this, because they aren’t mentioning climate change at all. I spoke with St.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s. The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. Hundreds of the world’s largest companies have agreed to use 100% renewable energy and set targets that commit them to reduce emissions at the pace that science demands. First, climate change is real and affecting businesses today.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . Climate Change. David Hasemyer. Environmental Justice. California.

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