Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2021

Our chamber has a long history of taking actions to fight climate change driven by carbon emissions in order to protect small businesses from sea level rise and severe weather, which are costly to individual businesses and the economy in general. Your business can fight climate change and pollution for you and your family today.

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Grist

MAY 17, 2021

Between 7,000 and 9,000 years ago, as glaciers melted, sea levels rose rapidly, burying miles of the Trinity River Valley — along with its mounds of sand — beneath the seafloor. That knowledge could help scientists and planners predict how rising seas will impact coastal landscapes and ecosystems in the coming years.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

It reports rebounding sea life, from humpback whales off Australia to elephant seals in the U.S. Through rampant overfishing, pollution, and coastal destruction, humanity has inflicted severe damage on the oceans and its inhabitants for centuries. and green turtles in Japan. However, progress is far from straightforward.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

If it’s flooded, it could then pollute the surrounding wetlands, he added. Nopetro LNG applied for and was approved to be exempt from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) oversight by claiming that its liquefaction facility is separate from the port where the LNG would be loaded onto ships, even though they are a mere 1,329 ft apart.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question. We need to match our energy for climate action to the fierceness of our burning climate.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. A UN report found that air pollution may reduce the GDP by more than 10 percent in some countries while halving GHG emissions could reduce premature deaths related to air pollution by 20 to 40 percent.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has this afternoon urged member states and shipping operators to reduce the black carbon emissions produed by shipping in the Arctic, in a move that campaigners said would send a strong message to regional and state policymakers to take action to tackle the pollutant.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Marazziti and colleagues recently published a review paper on the simultaneous negative psychological impacts of climate change, air pollution, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Marazziti, D.,

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Grist

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It was looking at the history of the waterfront and how climate change is affecting it, because sea-level rise has been a huge problem, especially with increased storms. It would challenge how we scale and produce textiles in one of the biggest polluting industries in the world. What about you two?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. In one of these cases, small island states are seeking an advisory opinion that defines countries’ legal requirements for protecting the oceans from harmful climate impacts — such as ocean acidification and sea level rise – that threaten their very existence.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

” The latter includes all ocean-based economic activity, including fishing, shipping, mining, port operations, oil and gas exploration and energy generation. domestic energy as offshore oil.” The group is quick to distinguish the ” blue economy ” from the ” ocean economy.” ” Given U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

In election results that have been hailed in some quarters as a ‘greenslide', Labor Party leader Antony Albanese has been confirmed as Australia's Prime Minster, immediately promising to ramp up the country's climate ambitions and transform it into a renewable energy superpower.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I thought about being a lawyer, being a pilot advocating for awareness of forest clear-cutting, advocating for renewable energy through alternate energy projects, I had a realization—I enjoyed the education aspect of those jobs. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Economic losses and damages are inevitable Loss and damage has been a hot topic for years in international climate negotiations, with last year's COP27 Conference seeing richer counties capitulate to calls from developing nations for a dedicated fund to help them cope with the impacts of climate-related floods, droughts, and sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Excerpt from the Task Force Report on Environmental Pollution, November 1964. Read the entire document on DocumentCloud.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

Nichols oversees Coastkeeper’s living shorelines program, a project in partnership with California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton, that restores ecosystem structures like oyster beds and eelgrass meadows, which protect shorelines from waves, erosion, and sea-level rise.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

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. The primary trigger for the current economic crisis is a war waged by a petrostate.

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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. We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree degree goal will fall quickly out of reach.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Wetlands are a unique habitat that filters water, sucks up carbon dioxide, and protects our coasts — but the triple threat of sea-level rise, pollution, and development is putting them at risk. Geiger’s team used a two-part, clinical definition of hope.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Noise and air pollution have made life difficult for nearby residents. He doesn’t smoke or drink, and is convinced the pollution from the LNG plant is the cause of his family’s declining health. National environmental groups had planned a protest in front of the Department of Energy in Washington DC, scheduled for early February.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California's Cinnamon Energy Systems. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Michael Bloomberg announces $242m clean energy investment push.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This is because the polluted fresh water entering the salt water environment will kill off most of the brown shrimp and oysters, as well as most of the Bottlenose dolphin that live there. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more. The facts are undeniable. degrees.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. These people will be exposed to worsening heat stress, air pollution, water and food supply risks unless action is urgently taken. People living in cities face worsening heat stress, reduced air quality, food, and water shortages.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

We can't rely on risky, untested and downright dangerous removals technologies just because big polluters want us to stick to the status quo. Stephanie Roe, global lead scientist climate and energy at WWF, said: "This report represents the most comprehensive collection of climate science since the last assessment came out almost a decade ago.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. We already have the practical, clean-energy solutions to make a real impact and help stop the destruction from extreme weather events from getting ever-worse. Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling (Green Energy and Technology) by Y.

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