Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. degrees.). “It Far from it.

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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.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Striking both for their beauty — and for the grave and imminent threat posed by sea-level rise and coastal erosion. It’s why climate change has always felt personal to him. “At At a fundamental level, it is a crisis and it’s happening right now and affecting millions of people,” he said.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Three panelists will talk about new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways including transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise, to vulnerability assessments that help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities.

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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?

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. Right now, clouds are one of the least understood factors in climate change research. “We

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Part of responsible land use, says Carney, is considering its impact on the climate. Originally published on ILSR.org .

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Vano , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Climate scientists often use global climate models (or Earth system models) to understand climate change impacts. Extreme weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise. What happens next could have broad implications, since UPMIFA is a uniform law that every state in the U.S., except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At best the permits minimize coastal erosion and gloss over storm surge and flood risks in relation to climate change,” he said. Despite these storms, which scientists say are worsened by climate change, South Louisiana is teeming with activity from the expansion of LNG export facilities and petrochemical plants.

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C It's time to act.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

As the earth’s temperature warms, coastal populations around the world are wrestling with how to adapt to rising seas. If this small, 20-meter bed is really important in slowing down erosion, and we can track that over time, that’s really good for managers and policy folks who are trying to deal with sea-level rise,” said Nichols.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. Anxiety is a growing and understandable psychological response to climate change.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite heavy precipitation over the past year, California’s drought resilience remains in question, as critical infrastructure projects face staunch opposition and climate change increases the likelihood of extreme and prolonged droughts. The Delta Conveyance Project is a proposal for a new 44.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn. See full listings and deal analytics on Sightline Climate Request a Sightline Climate demo In the News The EU passed a watered down nature restoration law.   Can’t get enough deals?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. And it’s not just climate.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For the first time ever, a climate liability lawsuit that makes tort claims to hold Big Oil accountable for the costs of climate change has reached and survived motions to dismiss. — Center for Climate Integrity (@climatecosts) March 3, 2022. Landmark Decisions in Australia on Climate Change and Human Rights.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. And it's not just climate.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . There has been little change in her neighborhood since she was a child.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Regan said in a statement: “At this moment, when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more disruptive, costing billions of dollars every year from floods, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise, and jeopardising the safety of millions of Americans, the Court’s ruling is disheartening.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. And it’s not just climate. A quick data point: According to the U.S.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Former Attorney General Suella Braverman was probably the most vocal in her opposition to climate action during the Tory leadership race, vowing to “suspend the all-consuming desire to achieve Net Zero by 2050”. Badenoch has insisted she does “believe in climate change”, but said “there is a better way of going about these things.”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

The conversation of Black lives mattering isn’t just limited to police violence … It also extends to climate justice. There has been little change in her neighborhood since she was a child.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

But if the pandemic has laid bare America’s so-called "digital divide," climate change will only worsen the inequality that stems from it. Unless, that is, we can bring everyone’s internet up to speed, which is what Democratic lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis are hoping to do.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

But if the pandemic has laid bare America’s so-called “digital divide,” climate change will only worsen the inequality that stems from it. Unless, that is, we can bring everyone’s internet up to speed, which is what Democratic lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis are hoping to do.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The idea that there are "12 years left" on climate change comes from the big IPCC 1.5 As I say below, what it means is that humanity has until 2030 to dramatically cut emissions (in half) to avoid some of the worst of a changing climate.nobody is saying the world will end in 2030. So let me clarify it a bit. So even if U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For the first time ever, all of the leading Democratic presidential candidates agree that climate change is a high priority issue that demands urgent action. They all released climate proposals ahead of the historic climate town halls on September 4th. Axexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Pete Buttigieg $1.5

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