Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Poverty status, social security, and access to resources; these are the three main factors that are extremely affected by global climate change. Human Health . Vulnerable Populations . Economic Impacts .

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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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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

For over 60 years, the laboratory has studied whether nuclear technologies can be used to breed new and more resilient varieties of crops, and the seeds from the space capsule were its newest venture. Experiments like these carry risks, Mohanta pointed out. Read Next The best coffee for the planet might not be coffee at all L.V.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

oceans #protectouroceans This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans—coming this April from Disney & National Geographic—explores the health of our. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide. The post Oceans. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Flood risk product used for investment decisions, vulnerability assessments, and infrastructure resiliency planning. Insight Engines. Overstory (Seed | $1.8M Applications.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 15, 2022

Gardening, whether in hanging buckets or in the backyard, promotes sustainability and helps save on some costs that would have been incurred on things, such as groceries. It also plays a vital role in the integrity of the environment. In addition, gardening instills the spirit of naturing or caring for something in you. Keep reading […].

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. It takes a lot of education.".

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We believe ourselves lucky as the inhabitants of the solar system’s only planet capable of sustaining life. But we are continuing to only take from our environment. Ever thought about giving back to the planet? If you feel your government or political leaders will take necessary strides to sustain the.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the years, anything “organic” is associated with something healthy. This explains why organic labeled food sells at a higher price compared to others. As more people learn about the benefits of organic herbal farming, it is becoming popular. Not only is organic herbal farming beneficial to humans alone but.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations' Glasgow Climate Summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. 2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted. F) warming making large parts of the Earth uninhabitable. 2040 : The artic will become ice-free in the summer. Our planet is 4°C (39.2°F)

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Today's successor - co-authored by experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and the Norwegian Business School - sets out two broad future scenarios. The more sobering trajectory shows the world continuing on its current unsustainable path, leading to global warming of around 2.5C

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories. Residents have ideas.

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