Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

The country's national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement remained worryingly underpowered, aligned with as much as up to 4C of global warming, according to some experts. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Working Group II analysis published this morning - the first report on the impact of climate change from IPCC scientists in eight years - notes that climate change is already affecting billions of people around the world and warns these impacts are set to intensify over the coming years as global temperatures continue to accelerate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

We can't rely on risky, untested and downright dangerous removals technologies just because big polluters want us to stick to the status quo. We must fight to stop every fraction of a degree increase in global warming. The world's scientists tell us that we must bring down emissions rapidly to limit global warming and keep 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Moreover, with grid-connected batteries, buildings can easily provide the resiliency that our grid needs during power shortages and blackouts. Some people say this is the new normal.

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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. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar with her children Aralyn and Dale Jr.

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