Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While oil demand seems to be nearing its peak , there’s no question that the need for critical metals is on the rise.  District of Columbia-based grid resilience software developer, raised $2M in Seed funding from Jetstream, Looking Glass, Intelis Capital, El Cap, Streetlife, and other investors.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. Please visit spglobal.com/marketintelligence/tcfd or watch our on-demand webinar to learn more.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. Please visit spglobal.com/marketintelligence/tcfd or watch our on-demand webinar to learn more.

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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. 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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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

The level of government least able to mitigate and adapt is the level of government most affected. For coastal municipalities, it is a slow-moving wave that imperils land values with sea level rise inch by inch submerging and devaluing a main source of municipal revenue—property (and its accompanying tax revenue).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. According to Climate Investigations Center founder and director Kert Davies, climate deniers have tried to “stymie discussion” of extreme weather events and climate change for over 20 years. “In The backlash [from deniers] was intense.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic. The engineering of waterways, oil and gas development and sea level rise have erased 2,000 square miles from the Louisiana coastline since the 1930s. Barry Yeoman. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 00:15. So we were secluded from the get-go.".

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Kirk is right to argue that we have a remarkable track record of resilience and ingenuity. This week the World Meteorological Organisation published a report detailing how four key climate change indicators - greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification - all set new records in 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". They point to a two-fold increase in sea levels between 1993 and 2010 compared to last century. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic Barry Yeoman Wed, 07/01/2020 – 00:15 When the COVID-19 outbreak first reached Louisiana and residents were ordered to stay at home, Marie Marlene V. Foret tapped into some skills she learned seven decades ago. “If it doesn’t, people die.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Young leaders of color building resilient communities. And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.: Pull Quote.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

The case brought by West Virginia demanded the EPA should not have the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan in 2015 – in essence limiting emissions across whole states.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Young leaders of color building resilient communities Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. Given the level of toxicity in this parish, it has earn the name of Cancer Alley.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And we will continue to demand Congress do the same. However, critics warn the pair of bills also direct billions to the fossil fuel industry to create new infrastructure projects for carbon capture and hydrogen fuel made from natural gas, neither of which are commercially viable technologies. . Hope is not blah, blah, blah.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Simultaneously, it will also need to meet rising demand from other fossil fuel switchovers, such as electric water heaters, heat pumps and stoves to replace the millions of similar appliances currently fueled by fossil natural gas. Of the $15 billion that remains for electric vehicles, $2.5 Edwards , William J.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami. C aribbean What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico’s energy resilience? Without improved social and economic resilience, U.S. These shifts could cost billions of dollars to the region’s economy.

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