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Addressing Inequities In The Mental Health Burden Of Climate Change

Energy Innovation

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]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks.

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Why We Should All Be Concerned About the Environment

The Environmental Blog

What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it. Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events.

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The seven steps to a green and resilient recovery

Business Green

But these groups have been joined by a wide array of mainstream businesses, with a host of Blue Chips across Europe calling on politicians to place the net zero mission at the heart of their stimulus packages.

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IRA Turns 1: Forget Crawl, Let’s Run!

AutoGrid

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead?

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Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study

Envirotec Magazine

Co-author Ganlin Zhang, of the Institute of Soil Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing, China, added: “We can see the effects of those changes in faster rates of erosion that drive soil degradation, for example, or through the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

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Microgrids: A Powerful Modern Tool for Wildfire Management

GreenTechMedia

Higher temperatures and a persistent drought driven by climate change have extended the duration of the state’s average fire season by 75 days. While these proactive measures reduced the threat of wildfires, they disrupted countless businesses and posed their own threats to health and safety.