Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We ignored these warnings and we keep pumping climate change causing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at record breaking rates. Everyone from Stephen Hawkings to President Obama have warned us of the urgent need to act on climate change. A half century ago climate models accurately predicted global warming.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Astrid Riecken / The Washington Post via Getty Images As human-caused climate change continues, the number, intensity and duration of heat waves will only get worse. As temperatures rise, so does drought and air pollution, which also increases the risk of preterm birth or low birthweight babies. And the U.S. This is preventable.”

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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. Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.”

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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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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.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anybody who’s watched the news over the past month will know that the effects of climate change are becoming too pressing to ignore. Put together by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the comprehensive report confirms that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans, and land.”

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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]. As of October 2021, these organizations included 1,069 financial institutions responsible for assets of $194 trillion (2021 TCFD). Extreme weather events. Economic fallout.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. With so much heavy lifting needed by the corporate sector to alter the current climate trajectory, here are the 10 ten trends to watch for in 2021. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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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. Kim Coates, a councilwoman of Tangipahoa Parish, at a meeting organized by Air Products giving the public a chance to ask questions. Real science isn’t being used to guide their decisions.”

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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.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017).

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

How much the world achieved at the Glasgow climate talks – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change. degrees Celsius (2.7°F).

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The amount of information collected on every person, product, and organization will grow exponentially, and the pressure to share that information — with customers and consumers in particular — will expand.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. The amount of information collected on every person, product, and organization will grow exponentially, and the pressure to share that information — with customers and consumers in particular — will expand.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change. Climate change is a cruel phenomenon. Those least able to mitigate climate pollutants and adapt to the changing climate are those who will suffesSaasr the most. But climate change’s cruelty extends to American governance, too.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Robert Cardillo , Planet Federal’s Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board, was joined by Christine Urbanowicz , Senior Spatial Geospatial Data Scientist, USAID , Kathleen White , Program Director of Climate Change, DoD OSD ODASD (E&ER), U.S. Planet’s Perspective.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Most often, climate change is associated with a decrease in groundwater, fueled by worsening drought and evaporative demand. But in some areas, this water is actually creeping higher, thanks to rising sea levels and more intense rainfall , bringing a surge of problems for which few communities are prepared.

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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. Nichols says the goal of living shorelines is to create organic structures to protect coasts, “instead of using boulders and rocks.”. That portion could increase to one-third by 2100 if current rates continue.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In some parts of the country, climate change may be the most controversial subject that science teachers bring up in their classrooms. But the majority of public school teachers don’t deal with this, because they aren’t mentioning climate change at all. I spoke with St.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. The statement also calls for companies to adjust their trade associations’ advocacy to align with climate science. (The

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action. Despite being told after Sandy that his organization couldn't grow, he said, "We're still here. Climate Change. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Nicholas Kusnetz.

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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. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action. ” He noted that one former RYTF organizer, Khaleel Anderson, is running for the New York State Assembly.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pandemic, in some ways, has been a trial run for the anticipated coming impacts of climate change — a not-so-distant future in which low-income and minority populations are the most at risk. The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise. . Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The pandemic, in some ways, has been a trial run for the anticipated coming impacts of climate change — a not-so-distant future in which low-income and minority populations are the most at risk. The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Climate Change is a Women's Issue and so is the Clean Economy In terms of climate change impacts women have the most to lose and in terms of engaging climate action they have the most to gain. Climate change is a critical issue for everyone, but it is especially hard on women.

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