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35 years on, I’m still searching for my biggest impact on the climate crisis

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In a world that's doing both better and worse than hoped to address the climate crisis, how should a sustainability 'modern elder' engage? I've been pondering this question. I'd love your thoughts.

Sustainability

How the escalating climate crisis is impacting global livelihoods

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

More frequent and more deadly': Extreme hunger, fear and increased financial risk among effects of growing global climate crisis.

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. . Maria Mendiluce.

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Solutions to the climate crisis will come from the multitudes

GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2022

Climate change is not just a systemic problem, it’s also a leadership crisis.

Climate change

How the Red Sea crisis could impede shipping industry climate targets

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A recent analysis finds that the 4,000-mile-plus detour to avoid Red Sea attacks could dramatically increase the global shipping industry's carbon emissions.

Carbon

How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one. Joel Makower. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 02:11.

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Tennessee floods represent worldwide climate crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 26, 2021

As the climate crisis worsens, these extreme weather events may become more common. From Tennessee to Germany, flash floods have been hitting the world hard.

How climate change is causing an insurance crisis in Australia

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2022

Climate change is causing an insurance crisis in Australia. The Climate Council of Australia found that river flooding poses the biggest risk to homes. Image via Shutterstock.

Climate change

Is nuclear the answer to Australia’s climate crisis?

Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The post Is nuclear the answer to Australia’s climate crisis? Should we lift the ban? It would have no practical effect on electricity markets, but the political fallout could be tragic for Australia. appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ocean change is exacerbating the climate crisis

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. This role of the ocean in both mitigating and aggravating climate change is understood by scientists but ignored by politicians.

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What cancer taught me about the climate crisis

GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2023

Innovation alone will not save us from climate catastrophe. We must first acknowledge the many forms of toxicity that have contributed to our human-made emergency.

Innovation

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right

GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right. With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. The question is relevant because there is mounting pressure to take action against the climate crisis. Paolo Natali.

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CLOUDROOM's bioclimatic design highlights the climate crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2022

It's an installation that aims to inspire a rethink of educational spaces and raise awareness about today's climate crisis. The project, called CLOUDROOM, is a bioclimatic design for an outdoor classroom.

Education

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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. Initially estimated to cost $5.4

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Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In Paul Hawken’s latest book, Regeneration, justice, biodiversity, equity and human dignity align as the path to reverse the climate crisis. It includes a broader and more diverse set of climate solutions than typically presented, a tapestry of interactions between the human and living world.

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Could a ‘carbon coin’ solve the climate crisis?

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2021

What if there was a way we could fund the climate transition by creating a new global currency, off the books of national and corporate accounts?

Carbon

Property premiums to skyrocket during the climate crisis

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Analysts predict $183 billion increase in property insurance costs by 2040 due to climate change and the surge of 'weather-related catastrophes.'

Climate change

Lessons From The Jackson, MI Water Crisis About Climate Change

The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The water crisis in Jackson has been (rightly so) dominating the news of late, but the stark reality is that such water crises will become regular occurrences unless climate change and an aging water infrastructure aren’t suitably addressed. Heavy rains and storm cells have been inundating many southern regions recently, with St.

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How Google is turning to AI to help address the climate crisis

GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2023

The company is grappling with the tradeoff between creating artificial intelligence services to help with sustainability and the large amounts of energy and water they need.

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How Businesses Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As the climate crisis intensifies, businesses of every size have an important role to play in helping to protect life on earth. The post How Businesses Can Help Address the Climate Crisis appeared first on Green Living Guy. Reduce Waste Commercial waste production has been steadily increasing.

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9 ways the circular economy can help avert the climate crisis

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Circular economy strategies can complement decarbonization measures and support scaling the clean energy transition.

Energy

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The climate crisis could sink the UK's economy by 2045

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2022

is at risk of losing 1% of its economy every year by 2045 due to the climate crisis. government's recent assessment of the risks posed by climate change. In a five-year analysis of the climate risk, officials determined that the U.K. stands to lose even more if actions are not taken to reverse the climate crisis.

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Energy Insiders Podcast: The climate crisis and the energy transition

Renew Economy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Berkeley Earth’s Robert Rohde discusses the latest climate science and whether even 2°C is achievable. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: The climate crisis and the energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy. Plus: All the renewable and storage news from the first few weeks of 2024.

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Episode 323: Boris Johnson's climate legacy, Seth Godin takes on the climate crisis

GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2022

Plus, a conversation with Heidi de Cienfuegos, co-founder and director of B100arquitectos, one of the first architecture firms in Central America specializing in bioclimatic and sustainable design.

Sustainability

AI has great power in combating the climate crisis. How can it be used wisely?

GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sponsored: Artificial intelligence carries great promise in advancing sustainability and resilience in sectors from agriculture to transportation. But it takes human intelligence to ensure AI solutions deliver positive outcomes.

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Humanity has ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting climate crisis worsen, UN secretary warns

The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

António Guterres opened the UN climate ambition summit, held in New York on Wednesday, with a lacerating attack on wealthy countries and the fossil fuel industry for their ponderous response to the climate crisis. Continue reading.

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How science, technology and behavior change can confront the climate crisis

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Behavioral scientist Sweta Chakraborty, president of We Don’t Have Time, says we need to acknowledge cognitive biases and get better at talking about climate risks.

Technology

When an energy crisis collides with the climate crisis

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sell out or stay in fossil fuel energy stock? Investors are playing it all ways.

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Solar Spotlight: Scaling energy storage while facing a climate crisis

Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the effects of a changing climate increase in both frequency and severity, the need for technologies that can decarbonize and support electrical infrastructure is paramount.

Energy

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Over a dozen instructors associated with a new online school called Peterson Academy , created by Canadian conservative influencer Jordan Peterson , have disputed the existence of a climate emergency, or opposed solutions that could address dangerous levels of warming. Pooley is a senior fellow with The Discovery Institute , a U.S.-based

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Climate Crisis Denier Lee Anderson Finds Common Cause With Reform UK

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

The UK’s main climate science denial party has gained its first member of parliament with the defection of suspended Conservative MP Lee Anderson. Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels.

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The climate crisis must be priority for financial regulators

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Risk is a baseline responsibility of financial institutions, yet they are falling short as irreversible climate damage accelerates.

Green banks can solve America’s affordable housing crisis — and climate change at the same time

GreenBiz

AUGUST 8, 2023

Following a few foundational principles, green banks can boost financing for climate priorities while remaining financially viable and not creating housing debt owners can’t repay.

Climate change

Is the climate crisis really a ‘data problem?’ Yes and no

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Kentaro Kawamori, CEO of climate software firm Persefoni, wants to reframe how companies think about data.

Tackling the climate crisis starts with consumer protection and empowerment

GreenBiz

JUNE 21, 2022

As inflation rises, consumer advocacy organizations can help guide government, business and others toward priorities like sustainabiliy.

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New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis

GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

Sponsored: The new Sustainable Forestry Initiative 2022 standards will ensure healthy forests that lead to benefits such as avoiding deforestation and fighting climate change.

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9 Canadian startups tackling the climate crisis

GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2020

With political short-termism aplenty, Canada’s climate leaders are private companies.

Startups

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The most important decarbonization chart you'll see this year

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Startling data in climate expert Nat Bullard’s annual report signals that carbon removal is not scaling fast enough to limit the climate crisis.

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7 great podcast series and their episodes about the climate crisis

GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2022

Climate change and sustainability have taken over some more mainstream podcasts and here are a few of the most insightful episodes.

Climate change

Climate change Sustainability

California Joins States Suing Big Oil for Its Role in the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate crisis. Gavin Newom said on the NYC Climate Week stage on Sunday. These [companies] have been playing us for fools,” California Gov.

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Germany’s Springer media gets the climate crisis so wrong

Energy Transition

JANUARY 25, 2024

The new evidence that the German CEO of Europe’s largest media publisher, Axel Springer, (mis)uses his flagship tabloid, the arch-conservative Bild, to advance his personal views on the climate crisis and climate activism is hardly surprising, as the Springer Media group has been mixing right-wing politics and public information for decades.

Politics

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We need nature-positive solutions to address the climate crisis

GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2022

Nature-based solutions and natural climate solutions leave too much room for greenwashing.

The two Australias at Cop28: a country at odds with itself on the climate crisis

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

At Cop28, Labor has made more progress on climate than the Coalition did in nearly a decade – but can this be true if Australia remains the world’s third biggest fossil fuel exporter? There wasn’t one.

Fossil fuels

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Only transformative net-zero implementation will meet the climate crisis

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Here's what climate leadership should look like in future.

35 years on, I’m still searching for my biggest impact on the climate crisis

How the escalating climate crisis is impacting global livelihoods

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The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now

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Solutions to the climate crisis will come from the multitudes

How the Red Sea crisis could impede shipping industry climate targets

How the climate crisis will crash the economy

Tennessee floods represent worldwide climate crisis

How climate change is causing an insurance crisis in Australia

Is nuclear the answer to Australia’s climate crisis?

Ocean change is exacerbating the climate crisis

What cancer taught me about the climate crisis

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right

CLOUDROOM's bioclimatic design highlights the climate crisis

Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

Could a ‘carbon coin’ solve the climate crisis?

Property premiums to skyrocket during the climate crisis

Lessons From The Jackson, MI Water Crisis About Climate Change

How Google is turning to AI to help address the climate crisis

How Businesses Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

9 ways the circular economy can help avert the climate crisis

The climate crisis could sink the UK's economy by 2045

Energy Insiders Podcast: The climate crisis and the energy transition

Episode 323: Boris Johnson's climate legacy, Seth Godin takes on the climate crisis

AI has great power in combating the climate crisis. How can it be used wisely?

Humanity has ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting climate crisis worsen, UN secretary warns

How science, technology and behavior change can confront the climate crisis

When an energy crisis collides with the climate crisis

Solar Spotlight: Scaling energy storage while facing a climate crisis

Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

Climate Crisis Denier Lee Anderson Finds Common Cause With Reform UK

The climate crisis must be priority for financial regulators

Green banks can solve America’s affordable housing crisis — and climate change at the same time

Is the climate crisis really a ‘data problem?’ Yes and no

Tackling the climate crisis starts with consumer protection and empowerment

New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis

9 Canadian startups tackling the climate crisis

The most important decarbonization chart you'll see this year

7 great podcast series and their episodes about the climate crisis

California Joins States Suing Big Oil for Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Germany’s Springer media gets the climate crisis so wrong

We need nature-positive solutions to address the climate crisis

The two Australias at Cop28: a country at odds with itself on the climate crisis

Only transformative net-zero implementation will meet the climate crisis

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