GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. California — as well as the rest of the United States and, in some cases, the rest of the world — is facing three major crises right now: the COVID-19 pandemic; the climate emergency; and racial injustice. . Deonna Anderson. Mon, 11/02/2020 - 00:05.

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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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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Canada’s major pension funds are dragging their heels on climate change, according to a new report from Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health. Shift Action is a charitable initiative that seeks to protect pensions and the climate by tracking pension fund investments and comparing them with climate policies.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In order to prepare for more climate disruption, the United States and others will have to "raise unprecedented amounts of money to cope with the impacts of climate change.".

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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. And if current trends continue, climate change could cost the global economy $5 trillion over a five-year period. This is especially true when it comes to climate-related policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

” A total of €21 million will be awarded across 100 European local and regional governments for “advancing climate change adaptation and resilience”, says the announcement. P2R will also offer the participants assistance as they examine finance mechanisms.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Committee on Climate Change plans to shortly offer advice to ministers on building an economic recovery consistent with the UK's 2050 net zero target. Eventually, thoughts will turn to the need to rebuild after coronavirus - the climate priorities can help shape these efforts.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

Bold steps had been hoped-for with the UK government’s third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) released on 17 July, a much-anticipated prospectus intended to set out key actions to boost resilience and provide protection against risks associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought and heatwaves.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change. See the dataset of polling results. “It

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

The strategy aims to boost supply chain resilience of critical goods. Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. Davies , Michael D.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World aims to help inform future government climate and net zero policies. Climate change poses a threat to both our way of life and the safety of our nation," she said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Treasury must be 'the year of climate adaptation', warning that 'worryingly few' infrastructure investors consider impacts of climate change. It warned that climate change considerations needed to be built into all long-term infrastructure plans. We must adapt to the present storm as well as those in the offing.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 22, 2022

Pioneering Digital Twin tech company Cityzenith has urged governments, real estate owners, city planners and energy companies to act on Earth Day 2022’s (Friday 22 April) theme ‘Invest In Our Planet’. Invest is exactly the word here,” said Cityzenith CEO and Founder Michael Jansen.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Emmanuel Macron’s government has been ordered to take much more decisive action to meet its climate targets – or face being fined. The government argued climate goals were not binding and said its proposed “Climate and Resilience” bill, which is currently going through parliament, is ambitious enough to meet the 2030 emissions target.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

million from UK Research and Innovation in its Future of UK Treescapes Programme to develop new tools and approaches which will help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change and enable the UK to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions. The project is one of six to receive a share of £10.5

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

By 2100, the likelihood of unusually intense fire seasons happening in a given year will have increased by 31 to 57 percent, depending on the rate of global climate change. That will create a vicious cycle in which climate change and wildfires intensify each other. But that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With just days to go until COP26, businesses increasingly understand the urgent need to act because they are already living with the effects of climate change and the havoc that extreme weather events are wreaking on economies worldwide. And they are listening.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

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. We need to take action now and design in resilience from today.

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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. The study was led by Forest Research and jointly funded by the Forestry Commission, Scottish Forestry and the Welsh Government.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis.

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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.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In a time not so long ago, few Canadians would have said they really felt climate change. In a September poll , 60 per cent described the temperatures where they lived as hotter due to climate change, while nearly two-thirds claimed this summer’s wildfires made global warming a more urgent issue for them.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. The letter welcomes efforts from the government to invest in flood protection, including a pledge to invest £4bn in flood defences over the next five years.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Agenda is billed as 'first comprehensive global plan' to rally companies, governments, and NGOs behind a shared set of adaptation best practices. This agenda will accelerate the Race to Resilience [campaign's] global goal of making four billion vulnerable people more resilient by 2030.".

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Defra seeking applications for funding from projects that can enhance tree planting stocks, boost woodland resilience, and create new forestry markets The government has this week announced it is seeking applications for funding from two innovation funds designed to boost the sustainability and resilience of the forestry sector.

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The City Fix

MARCH 17, 2021

In cities around the world, local officials face multi-dimensional sustainability and resilience challenges and are often responsible for achieving many overlapping mandates. More effective solutions require cross-cutting responses and collaboration across multiple levels of government and sectors. New research reveals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The government said the funds will complement the Energy Relief Scheme, which has seen energy prices frozen for businesses and public sector bodies this winter. And we are still awaiting details on the UK government's promised 'heat pump market mechanism'.".

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