Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Despite advances in attribution science we need to be cautious when linking this or any individual storm to global warming, however, we cannot discount the basic physics at play. They are also about storm surges that exacerbate sea level rise and cause widespread flooding. Subscribe in a reader

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The IPCC - a group of thousands of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the UN - has released yet another blockbuster dossier on the state of the planet's climate.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the IPCC's latest sobering warning on the worsening climate crisis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a major report setting out why action to tackle greenhouse emissions is so critical and where efforts to tackle the crisis should be concentrated.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Moreover, with grid-connected batteries, buildings can easily provide the resiliency that our grid needs during power shortages and blackouts. Policy Recommendations.

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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 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The Middlers.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

vehicle fleet, considered crucial to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion Build Back Better Act filled with social and climate program expansions — purports to take on climate change, but Thunberg dismissed the legislation in her comments during the opening session of the Youth4Climate event in Milan, Italy, on September 28. Climate Leadership?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. Even if we stopped burning oil and gas tomorrow, some degree of planetary warming is baked in. Here they are.

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