GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Climate change isn’t a future problem — the crisis is already here. Climate change also poses risks for business, from physical health and safety risks to financial risks. The climate risk is urgent and the time to act is now.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. There's kind of this feeling that the environment ends with the shoreline.". They called it the Blue New Deal. No wish list .

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Cop28 climate summit concluded in Dubai last week with a deal that some have described as ‘historic’ and others merely ‘incremental’. This caps off a year when the Albanese government pushed ahead with significant climate and environmental reforms, all while remaining the world’s third-biggest fossil fuel exporter.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Innovative farming methods will be used to help address the affects of climate change, in a new project announced on 21 March by Blenheim Estate. The group will be working in partnership with British climate tech firm A Healthier Earth on the ForestFactory concept.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Climate resilience is the theme of this year’s event (29 th May to 4 th June), which aims to inspire the public to help protect the capital’s waterways. From climate-themed meandering river walks to river cruises and family-fun events, we want to celebrate London’s blue spaces.

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U.S. Green Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

However, we live in a period of the constant looming climate crisis, which is why it’s important to pay attention to the environment. You deserve to have a beautiful and well-furnished home, that’s for sure. The best way to do so is to lead by example. And your home is a perfect place to start.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 28, 2022

in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said. And the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies.” The UN environment report analyzed the gap between the CO2 cuts pledged by countries […].

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U.S. Green Technology

JULY 7, 2023

The digital revolution is transforming our economic systems, the credit crunch has shaken our confidence in traditional financial institutions, and the climate crisis is forcing us to re-evaluate our relationship with the environment. In the midst of this tumultuous. Green Technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. The research highlights that in recent years, several forms of cleanup devices have been developed to remove plastics from the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The two organisations have collaborated on a new initiative called Streets of the Future, drawing on insight from experts across energy, transport and the built environment to create a blueprint of what the UK’s cities should aspire to become. In doing so, cities would be better equipped to manage the many impacts of the climate crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Gaute Juliussen, CEO and Founder of Toraphene, commented: “Amidst a climate crisis, plastic waste is known to be a huge, global problem and many plastic alternatives now exist, so why don’t we see them everywhere?”. Toraphene can be optimized to mostly produce CO2 along with mulch that can be used to fortify topsoil.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, a weak global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses and hindered progress towards the Goals. The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires. The group highlights priorities that should inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit and the Biodiversity Summit in China this autumn. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

Companies that manage, reduce and ideally eliminate their Scope 3 emissions have a significant positive impact on the environment and mitigating the climate crisis. For most organisations, Scope 3 emissions make up the lion’s share of their emissions – anywhere from 80 to 90 percent or more,” said Williams. “At

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Global environment editor Jonathan Watts explains why uncovering the disparity is key to solving the crisis, while environment correspondent Sandra Laville reveals how just 12 super-rich individuals outpollute 2.1m homes annually (and more from the great carbon divide series can be found here ). Continue reading.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2020

“We commend the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis for taking this comprehensive approach to climate-related legislation. should pursue policy solutions that protect the environment and ensure a prosperous American economy. This report underlines the top methods by which the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

In a landmark hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, legal experts and campaigners argued that businesses, such as the fossil fuel and agriculture industries, have legal duties to stop climate-related human-rights breaches. It’s not possible to guarantee human rights without combating climate change,” said Reisch.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Geothermal Energy Development Project is an initiative of the Green Resilient Recover Rapid Readiness (GRRRR) and has been approved under the Green Climate Fund with the aim of increasing access to clean and reliable energy. About 84% of the current hydropower generation comes from the Kariba South hydroelectric plant.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the same week as The Lancet reported that heat stress wiped out four per cent of Africa's GDP in 2022, the National Audit Office (NAO) provided a more parochial example of what an era of constant climate adaptation means in practice. But those risks are going to keep on increasing as long as the climate continues to change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With geopolitical tensions high and the stakes for the global environment rising, the countries reached the starting point for a path forward on mitigating the climate crisis

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As a result, the delicate balance between species that sustains life on Earth is at risk of collapse, with damaged ecosystems making the climate crisis worse, undermining our food supply and putting livelihoods at risk. There are an estimated 1 million species at risk of extinction.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But Cameron’s approach to climate policy was more nuanced than many give him credit for. I worked with Cameron in 2013, and while some will find this surprising, he really did care about the climate. It seems that Rishi Sunak has not just recycled David Cameron back into his cabinet, he has recycled Cameron’s energy policies, too.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2024

WATCH: Comedian Stuart Goldsmith shares his experiences with the challenges and joys of crafting jokes about the environment, offering insights into the power of humour in addressing the climate crisis For most people, climate change is a pretty scary prospect. But is there also room for humour around the issue?

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Co-leader of EU delegation at Cop28 says climate should be at centre of all financial and economic decisions Cop28 live – latest updates If fossil fuel companies are serious about tackling the climate crisis, they could contribute to funds for poor and vulnerable countries stricken by its effects, Spain’s environment minister has said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mine expansion in the state of New South Wales, roughly 267 miles north of Sydney.

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Energy Transition

JUNE 14, 2023

This will only become more pronounced as our highlands see less and less snow as a result of the climate crisis. In the short run, a dying industry is trying to save itself by means that exacerbate its toll on the environment. In so many ways, Alpine skiing is an assault on the natural world. Paul Hockenos reports.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The boss of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan, is to deliver a speech later today warning how the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to the human race if left unaddressed. The biodiversity crisis is a crisis because it won't just kill the plants and animals it is killing," he is to say. "It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mega-Projects The company’s plans fly in the face of expert opinion and climate science, which emphatically states that no new fossil fuel projects are compatible with keeping temperatures from breaching the 1.5 Africa is already feeling the impacts of the climate crisis — a crisis that is caused by burning TotalEnergies’ fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Austria is the latest country to be facing a lawsuit brought by some of its youngest citizens who say their government is failing to protect them from the worsening climate crisis. Young people around the world are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge their government’s climate policies or responses.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WATCH: The Net Zero Festival 2023 hears from Bupa's Julia Giannini, Neil Jones at Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Forum for the Future's international MD Hannah Pathak on the need for interlinked corporate action on climate, nature and public health The climate crisis is also a public health crisis, with potentially devastating impacts on human health, (..)

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Systems Change Alliance share our view at Lowimpact.org that the climate change problem can’t be solved within the current economic system, which requires and generates perpetual growth and wealth concentration. The climate crisis is not a crisis to be solved with technological fixes enabled by market sales tactics.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Just 20 companies are responsible for producing over half of all the single-use plastic which ends up going to waste worldwide, with only a tiny fraction of the material currently recycled, according to fresh analysis today which claims to reveal the "true scale of the global plastic waste crisis".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“We all rely on the work of environmental defenders in the Amazon and other parts of the world to prevent deforestation, build responsible critical mineral supply chains, and prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis. We must do more to protect them.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 23, 2024

The funding massively upscales Canada’s research and development efforts in geothermal power and supports its national commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 to address the climate crisis. Our Climate Change Fund is committed to strengthening the energy innovation ecosystem and hedging against worst-case scenarios.

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