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.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Over the past fortnight the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in hot takes highlighting the unnerving similarities between the global public health emergency and the worsening climate emergency that runs alongside it. We should reflect on that next time someone says that tackling climate change is too difficult, or too costly."

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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

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

He has long defended the scientific consensus on climate change, and having been a fervent critic of the outgoing Liberal-National coalition government's weak green policies over the past three years, he touted this weekend's election results as "an opportunity to end the climate wars in Australia".

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The urgency of now is underscored by the climate crisis and the need for climate justice. Businesses continue to lead on climate in the absence of U.S. political will. of how the climate crisis affects people. Engage them in community-driven climate resilience planning.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The IPCC - a group of thousands of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the UN - has released yet another blockbuster dossier on the state of the planet's climate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk. But it is also here that things start to go wrong, because a "financial and investment view" of climate risk should incorporate the very risks Kirk insists we should not worry about.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

From scenes of scared Americans fleeing to Mexico in The Day After Tomorrow to the Biden administration’s discussion of migration as a matter of national security , climate migration is often viewed by wealthier nations as one of the many negative impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the IPCC's latest sobering warning on the worsening climate crisis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a major report setting out why action to tackle greenhouse emissions is so critical and where efforts to tackle the crisis should be concentrated.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

However, failure to inculcate the reality of climate change into business strategy is a matter of survival. Businesses that fail to address the threats associated with climate change will be dangerously unprepared for the realities of the world we live in. They will also find themselves in mortal danger. meters by 2050.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. If you don't own anything, you're not changing nothing.".

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. Today, denying the reality of climate change isn’t as easy, and it is certainly more controversial. They lied, manipulated, and deceived.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” You’ve got to have ownership.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

vehicle fleet, considered crucial to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”.

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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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CleanTechnica

MAY 8, 2023

If enacted, this bill will expand the requirements of Florida’s Sea-Level Impact Projection (SLIP) studies beyond the current coastal construction zone and into all areas threatened by current and projected sea level rise, not just in areas directly on the coast.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Florida will spend a bunch of money to manage storm water without asking why more frequent storms and rising sea levels are happening.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What do we make resilient? What do we protect? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century.

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