Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. government to spend at least $100 million on a new solar geoengineering research program.

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Ethics Climate change Medicine Sea level rise 119

DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters. This latest study extends that analysis to the realm of wildfires. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. The American Petroleum Institute publishes “Two Energy Futures,” a policy booklet that advocates expanding coal, oil, and gas production for decades.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 98

Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. In some cases, shareholders are pushing companies to use their influence on policy issues. Nearly 95% of major U.S. In a survey of 2,511 registered U.S.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sea level rise 59

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Over the past 12 months, nature-based solutions have gained huge traction in international policy, not least because of their potential to reduce trade-offs and promote synergies between environmental and societal concerns and among the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Sea level rise Climate change Biodiversity Ethics 195

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner. Policy & Politics. According to Investopedia , the term refers to: a fiduciary responsibility held by company directors which requires them to live up to a certain standard of care. And it’s not just climate.

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