Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Sea levels were high, as a great sea, the Rhaetian Ocean, flooded most of the land. The Atlantic Ocean began to open up between Europe and North America causing the land level to fall. In the Bristol Channel area, sea levels were 100 metres higher than today.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contain the equivalent of 65 meters of sea-level rise, and the more they melt, the more they absorb sunlight, driving them to melt faster. Many coastal areas will find it impossible (or extremely costly) to adapt to continued sea-level rise.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2021

A shutdown of the current would have profound knock-on effects on global climate, disrupting the monsoon cycles that drive agriculture across most of the world, increasing sea level rise, and producing storms and colder temperatures in Europe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise. Miami is known internationally for its risk for coastal flooding and sea-level rise," Gilbert said.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Narratives on climate change must shift to include discussions on mountain ice melt and loss and not just revolve around sea level rise. Based on the study, Asian water towers were the most vulnerable, particularly the Indus water system.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

Europe suffered through brutal heatwaves that broke records in more than a dozen countries. It is know to be related to wildfires , drought, extreme weather, sea level rise and crop failures. In 2019 we saw heatwaves break records all around the world. We also need to appreciate the gravity of Arctic heatwaves.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We When was the last time we saw heating this fast? Oceans so acidic?

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The City Fix

MAY 1, 2024

By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction targets and other measures that countries promise.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

percent across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in 2020; but the United States’ preterm birth rate was higher — 10 percent. On an individual level, Ojiaku advises her patients, as early as possible in their pregnancies, to keep cool, stay hydrated, and limit work-related heat exposures as much as possible.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

A key fixture in the annual climate diplomacy calendar, the Petersburg Climate Dialogue is taking place today and tomorrow in Berlin, as Western Europe bakes in an intense and unprecedented heatwave. And let's ensure that those who need funding most can access it.". Loss and damage is happening now," he said. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year? What happens if harvests fail completely and repeatedly across North Africa, the Gulf, and Latin America sparking a level of migration towards Europe and North America completely unprecedented in human history?

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. In Europe, Spain and Portugal are battling wildfires, while Italy is suffering from the worst drought in the past 70 years, with many municipalities rationing water. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Those forced to permanently migrate as sea levels rise, for example, correlate with long-term, indirect psychological impacts such as higher rates of anxiety, depression, PTSD, aggression, and substance abuse, among others.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2019

Greenland does melt in the summer, but this year it started early: by May , temperatures were already breaking records and sea ice was retreating faster than usual. And now, the extreme heat wave that was plaguing Europe for the past week has moved up to the icy country. Well it turns out that heat in Greenland is everyone’s problem.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Mondi has been working with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) since 2017, exploring the outlook of climate change and impact on Europe's forests and wood supply. Droughts, floods, melting glaciers, sea-level rise and storms occur more frequently owing to changing climate.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

for a new fund that focuses on digitization and decarbonization investments in Europe. Exits 🛵 Cake , a Stockholm, Sweden-based electric motorcycle manufacturer, was acquired by Espen Digernes for an undisclosed amount. New Funds Verdane , an Oslo, Norway-based investment firm, raised $1.2b

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

“It’s a very high level of melting and it will probably change the face of Greenland, because it will be a very strong driver for an acceleration of future melting, and therefore sea-level rise.” Currently, Greenland is experiencing record temperatures, with a reading of 19.8

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. New trade routes are emerging, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), for example, is projected to rival Suez Canal traffic and shift trade flows between Asia and Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

For companies - especially the biggest flyers - to be credible in their sustainability claims, they need to set clear targets to keep their global flying to below half of pre-pandemic levels. A smarter approach to corporate travel is urgent to stay within 1.5C warming of the planet."

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

In this case, the plaintiff was a young person who is the heir to a low lying farm that will be destroyed by significant sea level rise. Essentially, the court decided that being less aggressive in addressing climate change was unfair to future generations of Germans. Department of Energy.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Perhaps those in industrial countries could cope with a rise in sea level (the Dutch example) but for poor countries such defences are not possible. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia. Conflicts would abound.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Heaton-Harris, while Europe minister earlier this year, said in an official video that the world needed to “go further and faster if we are to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change”. Before he joined Parliament, Argar was the head of UK and Europe public affairs at Serco, an outsourcing company for government services.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Germany, Europe’s largest economy and a country which currently produces 35% of its electricity from coal, has set a target to stop burning coal by 2038.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

In the same week as the IPCC warned the world was on track for escalating climate impacts unless it moves swiftly to slash emissions to net zero, the Italian island of Sicily looks to have registered the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Hamza Hamouchene: First of all, clearly, there are many examples in the region of what some people call sacrifice zones [to serve] the energy transition in Europe, through export-oriented projects and land grabbing. We have seen sea-level rise threaten some islands in the Mediterranean like Djerba and Kerkennah in Tunisia.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Watch this space.

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