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. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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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. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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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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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Last week Wood Mackenzie released an analysis – A delayed energy transition – on the implications of a five-year delay to the energy transition, both on CAPEX spending across segments as well as on the penetration of global warming. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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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

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.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As Learn more about this method of composting at the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. Just leave them. Kansas City, MO.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi said: “From cycling, to opting for an airline that offsets its carbon emissions, the ways we travel are changing as the UK makes positive strides towards ending its contribution to global warming by 2050.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its. That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world.

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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. That’s according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme , which also says that the annual number of wildfires around the globe could rise 50 percent by the end of the century.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As Learn more about this method of composting at the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. Just leave them. Kansas City, MO.

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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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Green Living Guy

MAY 25, 2022

Anticipating key features of wind plants a decade or more ahead of their installation can inform today’s investment, research, and energy system planning decisions. Department of Energy, elicited opinions from […].

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 13, 2022

Preliminary 2021 data from the Energy Information Administration confirm what IEEFA said throughout the year: The long-term-trend in U.S. utility generation continues to move away from fossil fuels, particularly coal, and toward greater renewable energy use.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

The Paris Agreement, which rests on a commitment by countries to prevent the worst effects of climate change by keeping global warming this century to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C, Much of that information should come from companies, and much of it isn't disclosed today. C, provides precedent for action.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2022

It can be incredibly overwhelming to sort through all of the information out there on how to be green. After all, climate change is a huge crisis already wreaking havoc on our planet, and it seems like almost every major industry, from agriculture to transportation, energy, fashion, or retail, has a hand in increasing the […].

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 However, in addition to improving practices, there is an opportunity for producers to rally around the idea that less and more sustainable meat options, which will be critical to limit global warming, can still be good for business. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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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. Our window for action is narrowing.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The review itself also pledged to "lead sustained international action to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050 and build global climate resilience, starting with our presidency of COP26 in 2021 and our International Climate Finance commitment of £11.6bn". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s an initiative that requires lots of research, an informed approach, and proven techniques to ensure the best results. Running a business sustainably is one of the significant challenges people face today. The reason because saving money and going green in the modern field of business can be a challenge.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It emphasises the urgency of action to curb global carbon emissions, coupled with an adaptive approach to the management of our ocean resources in order to tackle an expected rise in socioeconomic inequities. Such a response would not only improve resilience and future-proof these vital industries, but could also improve profits.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Climate change is "landing blow after blow on humanity" yet the world is still failing to mobilise the hundreds of billions of dollars of investment needed to better prepare for and guard against the myriad worsening impacts of global warming. UNEP's report does point to some progress made by governments on climate adaptation.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

“Planet is proud to be the commercial and technology partner to deliver needed data for climate action while accelerating humanity toward a more efficient, sustainable global economy.”.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C warming limit came after a long push by vulnerable, small-island and least developed countries for whom reaching that goal is their best chance for survival.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The analysis, due to be published on 18 June, is expected to include recommendations to governments on how to stimulate economies and revive a moribund energy investment climate following the pandemic while also generating jobs and building a more resilient and cleaner energy sector. is "central" to the report.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

those building the digital fabric to effectively inform and direct climate action. Along those same lines, Climate Intelligence (CI) is the historical, current, and predictive information on our natural and built systems to power insights for climate mitigation and adaptation. Overstory (Seed | $1.8M Applications.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Energy Information Administration forecasting high energy costs this winter: “Higher prices for natural gas, oil, and electricity are going to hurt. Washington, DC—The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released the following statement from Steven Nadel. Nadel is the executive director, in response to the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

However, if there is to be wide-spread adoption of hydrogen as a viable alternative energy source, there needs to be a national focus on establishing a network of hydrogen production and refueling — not unlike EV charging roll out — to provide the basis for resilient local supply chains.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond to changing demands and disruptions.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

of global warming could deliver one per cent growth in employment by 2050, compared to a baseline scenario. This should inform governments on the design and implementation of their stimulus and recovery plans to address the economic impacts of Covid-19.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

have since set or publicly committed to setting science-based emission reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement - meaning they aim to limit global warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, with a goal of limiting warming to 1.5C. Two of the companies - McDonald's and Yum Brands!

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 27, 2021

These efforts solidify the information students learn in the classroom. Millennial and Generation Z students learned about the importance of car pollution in school. Many educational facility pickup lines encourage parents to turn off their vehicles while waiting for their kids. Fortunately, transportation technology is constantly evolving.

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