Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the planet, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. Looking at more than 1,000 drought and flood events around the globe from 2002 to 2021, researchers analyzed their size, duration, and severity.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. Now, with climate change, come scorching hot temperatures during the summer months which bring additional challenges to healthcare systems that already operate under great pressure due to the pandemic. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2020

Researchers from University of Cambridge found that climate change could add around 20 percent to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040. They are urging businesses to evaluate their own exposures to the growing risk to improve their resilience and sustainability.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

The latest National Climate Assessment presents the starkest picture yet of the growing costs and risks of climate change in the U.S. In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. There’s no escaping that climate change poses serious and increasing risk to business.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 28, 2022

As the planet heats up, severe weather events become more frequent and powerful, sea levels rise, food crops suffer from extended droughts, and many animal and plant species face extinction. It’s difficult to envision what we, as individuals, can do to address an issue of this magnitude and severity.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. How is climate change impacting you and your family? more resilient? In 2020, the K.C. What are your biggest concerns?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets. Impacts of climate change on flooding.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5 percent to 7.5 percent by 2050. Operational risk factors.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

University of Oxford-led water security reserch programme ( REACH ) publishes its interdisciplinary Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. Findings include less visible climate change impacts, including gendered impacts and those on children, as well as the immediate impacts of droughts and floods.

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2024

Climate change and global warming are expected to increase the risk of these events occurring, which could significantly disrupt activities in the area. The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the planet, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. Looking at more than 1,000 drought and flood events around the globe from 2002 to 2021, researchers analyzed their size, duration, and severity.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

As we all know that climate change is one of the most significant challenges that we are facing in this century. Vietnam, known for its beaches, rivers, and bustling cities, is considered as one of the countries which are significantly impacted by global climate change. Current Status of Climate Change in Vietnam.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The effects of climate change are being felt more on the daily. The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. billion in 2022 to $11.82

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced its official launch, initial institutional capital raise of $2.5 As climate change escalates and its impacts become more devastating, we must be precise and decisive in modernizing the grid,” said Rhizome co-founder and CEO Mishal Thadani.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The virtual centre is set to launch in April and has been tasked with supporting data analysis and research into resilience in the natural and built environment by providing a reliable, safe, and accessible online space to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

David Black, chief executive of Ofwat, giving a keynote address at the British Water event. The reception, now in its 16th year, was hosted by Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who is chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee, which advises UK Government on climate risks and opportunities.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When it comes to grid resilience, coupling data on extreme weather conditions with the concept of asset fragility is the clearest way to quantify long-term utility asset risks from extreme weather events, writes Rahul Dubey of Rhizome. It’s clear: the impacts of climate change are here, and plans must be made to weather them.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

This decarbonisation demands above all a grid that is robust, resilient, and reliable, able to withstand both the internal impacts of constantly changing demand and supply patterns and bidirectional power flows as well as external impacts such as extreme weather events. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. Employee Engagement and Organization-Wide Events. Building Community Resilience for a Secure Future.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Resilience 101: Where we’ve been. Thirty years ago, the concept of resilience held a very different and less pressing connotation than it does today. During the ‘80s and ‘90s, many U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Credit: Sarah Fish, PNASH Center, University of Washington As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as megafires and heatwaves are on the rise. These extremes compromise not only our air quality, but often how a community is able to adapt to such events.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing for events that encourage environmental sustainability, resiliency and restorative living ideas. Events can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. New report from Forest Research examines how trees, woodlands, and forests reduce and slow down rapid run-off that causes flooding.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

These impacts are a direct result of the global climate crisis and will only accelerate in frequency and duration in the future. Traditional solutions to short-term supply shortages – such as fossil fuel peaker plants – may meet the immediate need for capacity but also help accelerate climate change due to high emission rates.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Extreme weather events are a defining feature of the new, changing climate. The unpredictable nature and the widespread impact of such events pose a myriad of risks to contractual counterparties. States' commitments to combat climate change may also affect contractual performance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

However, with much of Europe and the US also experiencing record heatwaves in recent years, the report warns that labour productivity is being undermined by worsening climate impacts at a global level. Changes to labour rights are usually written in blood," Dasgupta said. Dasgupta said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

Floods akin to those that took hundreds of lives Belgium and Germany this summer likely to become more common occurrence due to climate change, research shows. The attribution study, conducted by dozens of researchers in the World Weather Attribution group, concluded that extreme rainfall events are now between 1.2

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies have a part to play in ambitious climate action — not least because it increasingly makes strong economic sense, writes UN Global Compact CEO Sanda Ojiambo. Today, all business leaders must become climate leaders in their own spheres of influence and raise their voices with ours.

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The City Fix

APRIL 25, 2024

Climate-change-induced events such as heat waves and floods severely impact quality of life in urban areas. It can be financially disruptive and even fatal, disproportionately impacting settlements most vulnerable to climate risks. Greening of open spaces can be an important.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lily D’Ambrosio said the storm, which swept through the state on Tuesday afternoon and resulted in the death of a dairy farmer in South Gippsland , has caused “one of the largest outage events in the state’s history”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Blistering heatwaves and devastating flood events are set to take an ever greater toll on the UK's mental and physical health, according to the Climate Coalition. million within just 17 years unless action is taken to bolster climatre resilience, the report estimates. At present around 1.8

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. According to author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that result in extreme, unintended consequences. Tom Baruch.

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