Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2022

New public-private partnerships driven by engineering, insurance, and finance sectors are needed to rapidly devise and deliver real climate adaptation and resilience, writes Atkins' Philip Hoare. There is overwhelming evidence that anticipating future hazards and building resilience is far more cost effective that post-disaster recovery.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The government's climate advisors will today publish a major new analysis of the UK's climate adaptation investment priorities, which argues that essential climate resilience measures remain badly underfunded by both government and businesses. That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming."

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Smart grids are crucial but delays are costly – IEA Energy Transitions Podcast: Redefining resilience for a modern power system To achieve countries’ national energy and climate goals, the world’s electricity use needs to grow 20% faster in the next decade than it did in the previous one. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. A report that AccuWeather produced minimizing the impact of global warming on extreme weather in 1994.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

In a major speech later, Emma Howard-Boyd, who is also interim chair of the Green Finance Institute, will warn that severe climate impacts must be more thoroughly considered in the planning and delivery of infrastructure in order to bolster the nation's resilience to global warming.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Sustainability also relies on local government. In 2019, Lance Bottoms and Lyles testified before Congress on Atlanta’s and Charlotte’s steps to create a more climate resilient city. It starts with equality, and it leads to the health and resilience of people and the planet.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. Among the 80 solutions evaluated for their potential to reverse global warming, educating girls and ensuring women have access to family planning resources ranked No.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Risk & Resilience. Finance & Investing. Greenhouse Gas.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. Industrial customers also may seek on-site distributed generation or storage for resilience, economic benefits and energy management — policies and regulations should support such investments.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Governments should prepare to pay coal operators to shut down plants and compensate impacted workers and communities, study argues. And, in the longer-term, governments should also be prepared to pay billions of euros to operators of coal-fired power plants in exchance for agreements to shut down their plants early, it adds.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The GlobalABC’s Global Buildings Climate Tracker found that there have been some incremental improvements in action to decarbonize and improve the energy efficiency of the sector. Local cities and governments have also developed codes. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C With increasing global warming, losses and damages will increase and additional human and natural systems will reach adaptation limits."

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Faced with the energy crisis currently affecting not just the UK but much of the world, the British government is overlooking the gift that is anaerobic digestion (AD), despite the business case for AD development growing stronger by the day. C”, he adds. “The

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2022

Climate scientists have long known that global warming increases rainfall, since a hotter atmosphere holds more water vapor. And they both point to the unfortunate reality that rain is going to get more extreme as the planet warms. And the federal government has been freeing up money for those efforts.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves Roland Hunziker Tue, 10/06/2020 – 01:00 The COVID crisis has exposed our interdependencies and the insufficient preparation of our urban systems for coping with shocks. Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The rise in the number and frequency of wildfires will exacerbate global warming by releasing the carbon stored in trees. Already, wildfires cost governments billions of dollars, contribute to adverse health outcomes, and claim hundreds of lives each year. But that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost.

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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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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Support for community groups, insurance, property risk training, and climate resilient infrastructure among measures in new strategy. The action plan sits alongside a £5.2bn investment programme promised by the government to help better protect 336,000 properties from flooding and coastal erosion threats by 2027.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. Changes to labour rights are usually written in blood," Dasgupta said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Co-op has called on both the government and private sector to ramp up international support for climate adaptation in developing nations, as it yesterday pledged to continue spending more than 0.7 Whitfield said she was "disappointed" by the government's decision not to return to its 0.7 Retailer pledges to spend more than 0.7

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a coalition of philanthropic organisations, and consultancy firm Dalberg Advisors published the report, which is titled: “Power Shift: Why We Need to Wean Industrial Food Systems Off Fossil Fuels”. How do we instead use this to create more resilience in the food system?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It's essential that governments take confidence from this letter - the biggest and most ambitious call for policy action from business that we've seen - and step up their climate action plans," said María Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition. Climate scientists have warned that limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

To no one's surprise that was the conclusion of the CCC's latest assessment today , a 1,500-page review, which sets out the stark and inevitable impacts from climate change that the UK is already facing, and does not hold back in criticising the government for its failure to take these threats seriously in its policymaking and public messaging.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

By coming together in great numbers, we can demonstrate the strength of our climate ambition and pressure governments to match it ahead of November's annual climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow. Companies that act now to prepare for the future will themselves be better placed to manage risk and build the resilience they need to thrive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Climate change has been ranked by UK risk experts and the British public alike as their number one concern for the next five to 10 years, with global warming more frequently cited as the leading threat, even ahead of pandemics, cyberthreats, and geopolitical and economic instability.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a wake-up call, Fowler said, to improve emergency warning and management and to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of climate change. Governments across the world have been too slow in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming continues apace,” Fowler said.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

The chairs of 14 major UK pension firms collectively managing £267.9bn of assets have come together to form a new net zero alliance, pledging to align their investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement's more stretching target of capping global warming at 1.5C.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2022

It's been almost seven years since the Paris Agreement was agreed at COP21, with 193 countries committed to limiting global warming to 1.5C of global warming by halving emissions by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050. It's time we apply that same rigour to global emissions and their drivers.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

foreign policy and national security, and to create a “whole-of-government approach” to shifting the country from reliance on fossil fuels to sources of low- or no-carbon energy, according to a White House fact sheet. The federal government spent $18.37 The federal government also spent about $4.4 economy by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Fresh analysis published yesterday compared 40-year climate projections for different regions around the world, detailing how UK summer temperatures, and extreme hot days, could warm up to 50 per cent faster than the average rate of global warming.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 23, 2021

President Joe Biden has announced that the government will implement a plan to cut emissions by 50%, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade. Biden made the announcement while opening a global climate summit on Thursday, April 22. Today, the average annual global temperatures are already 1°C higher. Initially, the U.S.

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