Terra Infirma

AUGUST 19, 2019

I have utmost respect for Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist. The way she has serenely raised the issue of climate change and braved some disgraceful vitriol from right wing commentators is laudable. But let’s be clear: the sailing trip is a publicity stunt.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. But that also means the results are based on an idealized world free of politics. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

Fink makes the case that climate change will fundamentally reshape the world and finance. Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. [A Investors are increasingly reckoning with these questions and recognizing that climate risk is investment risk.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 28, 2022

The SEC's proposed rule changes regarding corporate reporting of Scope 1 and 2, and under certain circumstances, Scope 3 greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, strike a middle ground between the view that strong, relentless government regulation is needed to address climate-change and the view that the market should decide everything.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. billion and 3.6

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. This is a £12m challenge fund, that British and international organisations can bid into, to support countries in Africa, Asia and South America to develop their green industries.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe. So let’s hope for that.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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. Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. The food and resource security risk is monumental.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Frank for NPR and Floodlight) Chevron’s bid to control the public discourse comes as efforts to combat climate change threaten the fossil fuel industry, especially in California. By the time of the incident, political sentiment in Richmond started to swing away from the company.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. These food shortages on a global scale, reminiscent of medieval times, will trigger another humanitarian disaster: climate refugees.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2020

South America, and Australia in 2020 are being attributed to climate change. million hectares or 22 percent of South America's Pantanal region has burned this year. As quoted by Weather.com , scientist Zeke Hausfather, said climate change is driving the trend of bigger fires.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2020

South America, and Australia in 2020 are being attributed to climate change. million hectares or 22 percent of South America's Pantanal region has burned this year. As quoted by Weather.com scientist Zeke Hausfather, said climate change is driving the trend of bigger fires.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Its proposed $369 billion expenditure to address climate change represents less than 2% of the country’s annual GDP. Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. Perhaps we’re not so optimistic after all.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The rule under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) would execute permitting compromises reached by Congress, remove Trump-era changes, and require project reviews to assess environmental justice and climate change. Source: NYT U.S. Source: DOE The big implications of US clean hydrogen rules.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 26, 2019

million square miles, cutting across the entire continent of South America and extending out into the South Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon is the planet's first line of defense against climate change and it is being razed to make room for carbon intensive farming. The Amazon is composed of 2.12

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CleanTechnica

JULY 27, 2021

Energy and environment ministers at the Group of 20 meeting of industrialized nations that took place in Naples, Italy, late last week failed to come to a consensus on several key commitments to tackle climate change in their final communique.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 29, 2021

From their origin in the Horn of Africa, modern humans extended their reach to the frigid plains of Siberia, the torrid deserts of Australia and the humid jungles of South America, learning to thrive in even the harshest environments. Now, climate change is […].

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