GreenBiz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Stakeholders, including boards of directors, investors, and value chain partners, are increasingly using ESG as a lens to judge how well an organization is addressing risks and opportunities. These include risks and opportunities related to climate change, energy management, and choices of chemical products.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

This is the first time a comprehensive report has been undertaken to assess actions to mitigate public health risks associated with the use of public waters, contaminated by faecal matter from human waste. But first we need a strong evidence base to understand and measure public health risks accurately.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Climate change causes a variety of adverse ecological and human health effects. The post How Does Climate Change Impact Our Diets? While our diet’s impacts on the environment are evident, individuals observe the reverse relationship less. Many interfere with […]. appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events. How To Divest.

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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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Grist

JULY 14, 2023

More than half of the world’s oceans have changed colors in the past 20 years, becoming more green than blue. Climate change. In a study, published Wednesday in Nature, decades worth of research showed 56 percent of the world’s oceans experienced color change between 2002 to 2022. Yes, it’s climate change.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

That March, we started to see cholera, which is usually endemic in Malawi, becoming an outbreak,” said Gerrit Maritz, a deputy representative for health programs in Malawi for the United Nations Children’s Fund. As climate change intensifies, storms like Ana and Gombe are becoming more frequent, more powerful, and wetter.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Hosted by the Conservation Foundation, a philanthropic organization, this small but vitally important symposium would help to bring a practically unknown area of scientific inquiry to national awareness. “Man is altering the balance of a relatively stable system by his pollution of the atmosphere with smoke, fumes and particles from.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“Dying from a heat wave is like a horror movie with 27 endings that you can choose from,” said Camilo Mora, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who has cataloged 27 different ways that heat can lead to organ failure and death. Factors like age, illness, and body size change the math.

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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? In 2020, the K.C. What are your biggest concerns? more resilient?

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns. degrees Celsius (1.96

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events. How To Divest.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

The blistering weather had many people wondering: Is this climate change? Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. Already, the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 3, 2021

Cornell Course Organizations everywhere are racing to plan for the effects of climate change on the global supply chain. These impacts present complex challenges which will only heighten over time — from effects on human health and the food supply to the weather and the water cycle to the economy and transportation.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is a concern not only for the oceans and the creatures that live there, but increasingly for human health as we consume plastic in the foods we eat. A report from ocean advocacy organization Oceana estimates that Amazon was responsible for 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019. Here is the list of grantees.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems. About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, an advocacy and research organization which helped organize doctors, nurses and public health advocates to make the advertising complaint. But all cigarettes are bad for your health,” she said. And all fossil fuels are bad.”.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 28, 2023

As cities become more congested, traffic fatalities continue to rise and the impacts of climate change escalate, the need for sustainable and safe transportation solutions has reached a critical juncture. The World Health Organization reports an alarming statistic: 186,300 children.

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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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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

These pollutants contribute significantly to environmental degradation and pose serious health risks to both humans and ecosystems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for around 7 million premature deaths each year. The impact on human health is equally concerning.

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Eco-Business

MAY 17, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that climate change will fuel various health risks as COP28 puts spotlight on issue.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The biggest problem that the world is facing these days is climate change. Many climate activists are working day and night to educate people regarding climate change and what effects it can have on human life. The change you want to see in the world starts with you, so why not move towards cleaner earth now?

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

The racial and social disparities exposed by the September fire are emblematic of a broader picture: Communities of color, low-income people, and other marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change, according to community activists across Cascadia. But can they?

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

No wonder that the World Health Organization has declared mental health issues a pandemic alongside COVID-19. Boards of directors are needed more than ever to ask for and question the scenario analyses behind how climate change will affect their company’s assets and determine whether they are or will become stranded.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

These microfibres likely pose a threat to aquatic ecosystems and human health, because once they become colonized by microorganisms, they smell like food and are consumed by marine organisms. Due to their persistence, the microfibres likely build up in marine organisms as they move through the food chain.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Soil Association reveals that lockdown sparked a sales surge for organic certified products. New data shows that sales of organic food in supermarkets have seen the biggest jump since December 2016, with year-on-year growth hitting more than six per cent.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. It’s a lobbying organization that pushes the interests of the fossil gas industry,” Temper said.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Coastal mangroves: Restoring wetland areas could make a sizeable impact on sequestering emissions New research appears to find that wetland conservation has a higher potential mpact for mitigating climate change than other ocean-based solutions.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

In the face of these threats, it is clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation is necessary (to minimize future climate changes), but not sufficient. Indeed, this fact has been acknowledged in the 2016 Paris climate agreement.). Equally important though, is how well we will adapt to the inevitable changes.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We also witnessed the emergence of EOS technologies to provide real-time water quality, ecosystem health and flood prediction analytics from satellite data acquisition and analytics companies (such as Gybe , 52 Impact and Cloud to Street ). We can solve climate change and water and need to focus on both.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 13, 2019

I have always felt the most at home outdoors, so when I learned about how climate change poses a threat to the existence of these places, my heart ached tremendously. The reality that someone’s zip code is one of the strongest determinants of health and exposure to environmental toxins really struck a chord with me.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours. Sub-systemic shocks.

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GreenBiz

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. Will they continue with health care and wages as usual? Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

The startup has created a recycling ecosystem tracked by blockchain where members receive a premium for the materials they collect, which in turn helps them provide basic family necessities such as groceries, school tuition and health insurance. Promote good health and wellbeing. Provide access to clean water. Shockingly, 2.2

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world. For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. Indeed, climate change could make the coronavirus seem like the good old days.

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