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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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How Improved Housing in Under-Served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

The City Fix

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

The report, focussed on potential opportunities for AI in the grid, finds that AI is able to improve grid planning, permitting, operations and reliability and resilience as well to advance the broader transition to a clean energy economy. However, it is crucial that new AI use cases do not introduce new risks to the grid, the report states.

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New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

The City Fix

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

GreenBiz

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high. Further, faster.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts.

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

AGreenLiving

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high.