Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Her contribution will help every one of us shape a more resilient world in the future. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said we have 12 years to hold global warming to 1.5

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Green Living Guy

MAY 27, 2022

Everyone is talking about climate change and global warming. Have you ever thought of what, among many other things, has the most damaging impact on the environment and contributes to global warming? It is these construction projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies are chasing profits from product innovations such as plant-based meat but failing to invest in supply chain resilience, study finds. Yet beyond product innovation, the report warns food firms are not doing nearly enough to build resilience in their supply chains against drought and other climate-related risks.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

AXA has teamed up with a host of environmental and agricultural groups on a fresh initiative to study the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on hundreds hectares of forest that the insurance and investment giant owns in France, with a view to developing fresh solutions for restoring damaged forests and boosting climate resilience.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s an island no one in their right mind wants to be on, but sadly many of us increasingly find ourselves due to global warming. Heat islands” are a concept British climatologist Gordon Manley came up with way back in.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” As a soil amendment, biochar has the potential to help build resilience. What is biochar?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 16, 2024

More from Davos Schneider Electric chief warns Davos leaders: ‘No time to wait for tomorrow’s climate solutions’ “The ambition to limit global warming and mitigate human-created climate change effects demands a scaling up of climate action.

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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. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 18, 2022

Matters on global awareness are on the rise as scientists state that we are at risk of severe global warming due to environmental destruction. Businesses that release harmful chemicals into the environment without thinking about their consequences are the number one factor accelerating these conditions.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

. | Photo by George Rose / Getty Images 2023 can now boast a terrifying record: planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from global energy use hit a record. It’s been almost a decade since the adoption of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to stop global warming. It has demonstrated its resilience.”

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Climate change and global warming are no […]. Many countries are experiencing extreme heatwaves this summer, and, in the UK, the temperature rose above 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in recorded history. The post 3 Ways to Live an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." Risk & Resilience. His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000 times higher than CO2. Gas-insulated electrical switchgear is one of the few applications that still uses sulphur hexafluoride.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The trees absorb carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming. Forests are essential for agriculture and preventing climate change. about 10 million hectares of forest are cut down each year. So, how can we save our forests? One idea is to turn deserts into forests, a technique known as desert greening. What Is Desert […].

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, Climate change is no longer a future problem.

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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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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

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. Like these other mayors, Bowser has pushed for a green and sustainable vision for her city.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Given that we have a new administration in place ”, he continues, “ this will be a pivotal conference, setting out a roadmap for AD to support the development of a resilient and sustainable economy in the UK at a time of global instability and a clear acceleration of climate change impacts. . This could double within a few years.

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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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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. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces. Some small progress, but not enough.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The guidance, which is published ahead of Adaptation and Agriculture Day at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, provides advice on how to build the business case for corporate investment in enhance climate adaptation and resilience measures.

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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. Though much of the United States is unprepared for extreme flooding events and other climate-related disasters , states are beginning to think seriously about how to become more resilient.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

Additional research published in Nature this week found that climate change is driving spruce trees into swaths of Arctic tundra that haven’t hosted trees in thousands of years, and yet another study added to worries about the resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate change.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 29, 2021

When thinking about the shrinking rainforest, ice caps, and warming temperatures, you might wonder what you can do to reverse climate change. The truth is there are a lot of theories on how to stop and reverse global warming, but there is no one answer to the problem.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 15, 2021

Environmental issues like acid rain, global warming, ozone layer depletion, climate change, and water pollution have raised major concerns for several nations, organizations, and groups. In recent years, the exploitation and degradation of our environment have risen at an alarming rate.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 29, 2021

From vicious storms that can flatten a neighborhood in mere seconds to global pandemics that change the very core of our everyday lives, the next emergency could be right around the corner. In the past 20 years, the effects of global warming have resulted in increasingly … Read More 3 Reasons Your Home Needs an Emergency Generator.

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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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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events. It is also one of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, report after report has stressed the importance of cutting emissions. Climate-resilient infrastructure. More climate-resilient infrastructure adds about 3 percent to upfront costs but provides $4 in benefits for every $1 of cost. Making water resources more resilient.

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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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