Grist

JULY 15, 2021

Preparing for the effects of climate change is not just about being ready for the next extreme weather event, like a hurricane, wildfire, or heat wave. Scientists have long warned that rising seas will bring high tides closer to buildings and roads and eat away at the shoreline.

Sea level rise 108

Sea level rise Climate change Health 108

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. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

Carbon-neutral 468

Carbon-neutral Sea level rise Climate change Health 468

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. The UK is already experiencing widespread changes to its climate, with average land temperatures having risen by around 1.2C The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

Climate change 66

Climate change Resilience Government Sea level rise 66

Grist

JULY 15, 2021

Preparing for the effects of climate change is not just about being ready for the next extreme weather event, like a hurricane, wildfire, or heat wave. Scientists have long warned that rising seas will bring high tides closer to buildings and roads and eat away at the shoreline.

Sea level rise 81

Sea level rise Climate change Health 81

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

Seafood 98

Seafood Startups Sea level rise Incubators 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. The purpose of these reports is to provide everyone, particularly governing bodies, with the information they need to make important decisions regarding climate change.

Sea level rise 98

Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 98

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

Sea level rise 101

Sea level rise Climate change Ocean acidification Carbon-negative 101

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Photos I shot on a flight on September 4, 2021 illustrate what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meant last month when he described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a “code red” for human-driven global heating. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

Sea level rise 98

Sea level rise Climate change Medicine Fossil fuels 98

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

A panel of leading scientists convened by the United Nations issued a comprehensive report Monday that contains a stark warning for humanity: The climate crisis is here, some of its most destructive consequences are now inevitable, and only massive and speedy reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can limit the coming disaster.

Sea level rise 98

Sea level rise Global warming Fossil fuels Climate change 98

The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

Resilience 49

Resilience Africa Climate change Sea level rise 49

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The chief heat officer’s responsibilities include education, disaster response training and infrastructure that considers extreme heat alongside other public health safety considerations. Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

Resilience 40

Resilience Sea level rise North America Climate change 40

The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

Resilience 52

Resilience Biodiversity Climate change Sea level rise 52

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

Sea level rise 82

Sea level rise Ocean acidification Climate change Global warming 82

Rinexii

JANUARY 13, 2023

billion to improve public health and reduce pollution Green roofing and rooftop gardens, clean energy, and zero emission school buses will all help reduce emissions and help cool off urban areas. As sea levels rise and floods become more common, infrastructure like this will be all the more critical to reducing damage.

Sea level rise 52

Sea level rise Cooling Health Pollution 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. It was the first in the world to establish that their government has a legal duty to protect its citizens from dangerous climate change.

Government 65

Government Fossil fuels Climate change Ocean acidification 65

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warns, “India will see increased heat waves and heavy rainfall events, while glaciers will melt further, along with more compound events from rising sea-levels like flooding.” The report further states that “unequivocal human.

Climate change 80

Climate change Sea level rise Resilience Health 80

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.

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Africa 98

Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Public health experts fear that Indigenous health will be seriously compromised if the animals can no longer be hunted.

Sea level rise 93

Sea level rise Health North America Climate change 93

Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

Fossil fuels 93

Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Sea level rise 93

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

This includes $160 trillion dollars worth of savings associated with climate action and massive risks associated with inaction. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. According to the U.K.’s The costs are already being felt. Subscribe in a reader

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Sea level rise Climate change Health 52

Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. The fallout of coronavirus will leave gaps in scientific data about another global crisis, climate change, and shelve ongoing studies. Bristol is one of the lucky ones.

Home Energy Monitoring 141

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 141

Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

There are similarities between the coronavirus and the climate emergencies, but what should really scare us are the differences. As the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger noted: "the main lesson we have to learn is this: Covid-19 is a dress rehearsal for climate change…". Amen to that.

Climate change 100

Climate change Sea level rise North America Nuclear Power 100

Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

They have a dual role to play - to reduce emissions but also to protect populations and infrastructure from the physical hazards and resulting impacts of climate change. Cities are key actors in building a resilient future for all," said Appleby.

Sea level rise 76

Sea level rise Resilience Climate change Packaging 76

Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy.

Resilience 40

Resilience Climate change Cooling Sea level rise 40

DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

Pollution 86

Pollution Fossil fuels North America Ocean acidification 86

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In fact, workplace disruptions caused by climate change could lead to more than $2 trillion in productivity losses by 2030. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise.

Resilience 52

Resilience Sea level rise Policy Soil 52

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wanting to raise awareness about the climate crisis in hopes of dispelling climate change denial and inaction, Volk charged ahead with creating the game despite having to overcome “the challenge of learning a new development system (Ren’Py) and programming language (Python).”

Sea level rise 28

Sea level rise Climate change Global warming Education 28

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate action 4. Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

Climate change 95

Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

With hand washing one of the top tips for trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the report will further fuel fears that the pandemic could spread even more rapidly once it reaches developing nations with limited water and health systems. Water can support efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.".

Sea level rise 48

Sea level rise Education Climate change Global warming 48

Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

Sea level rise 36

Sea level rise Politics Resilience Climate change 36

AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation Jonathan Cook Wed, 06/17/2020 – 00:30 This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. In some places, entire villages and more than a mile of coastline have been lost to the sea.

Sea level rise 36

Sea level rise Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 36

Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Stark new report argues governments and businesses risk coming to COP26 with 'grievously undercooked' climate resilience plans. The watchdog found that the UK is poised to face a significant intensification of climate-related impacts over the coming decades, even if governments prove successful at curbing emissions.

Resilience 49

Resilience Climate change Sea level rise Government 49

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. Around 2010, authorities in Surat began a process that strengthened understanding of how more intensive periods of projected rainfall due to climate change would magnify the risk of floods.

Climate change 40

Climate change Energy Monitor Sea level rise Building Energy Monitoring 40

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

Climate change 36

Climate change Carbon-negative Global warming Resilience 36

The City Fix

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A New Yorker may not think about the forested Catskills Mountain Range upstate as she pours a glass of water. Londoners probably don’t consider the Amazon rainforest as they watch the rain falling on city parks. And folks in Addis.

Sea level rise 98

Sea level rise Carbon-neutral Biodiversity Hydropower 98

AGreenLiving

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. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

Carbon-neutral 28

Carbon-neutral Sea level rise Climate change Carbon 28