Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. LSE research by Hamilton et al suggests that the health co-benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions could be worth $100 US per tonne of CO2 in high-income countries like the U.S. According to the U.K.’s

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

With hand washing one of the top tips for trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the report will further fuel fears that the pandemic could spread even more rapidly once it reaches developing nations with limited water and health systems.

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Earth Gratitude

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The map below, which has been assembled by the Union of Concerned Scientists , shows the cities along the Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Seaboard that are most at risk from sea level rise. cities most vulnerable to sea level rise. Map of U.S. © The Union of Concerned Scientists. Used with permission.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy. At the local level, overheating or flash flood risks can vary from street to street and building to building. And indeed, the productivity agenda.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. One was environmental science and technology, and another was an energy systems class that focused on wind and solar power. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The technologies and solutions required to combat the climate crisis are ready, available and increasingly affordable, the report notes, highlighting the drastic cost reductions seen in solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery production over the last decade or so. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some invest in greener technology to meet the reduction targets in 2050 (green bars), while others do not invest and pay a high carbon tax or experience lost revenue resulting from bans on the use of certain materials (red bars). This shows a rapid increase in carbon tax, with companies reacting in various ways.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Myth #3: Technology will save us, so we don’t have to act. For example, belief that a single technological solution, such as carbon capture , will fix the climate crisis without the need for change in policies, lifestyles and practices may be more grounded in hope than reality. In the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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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. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, the January 13, 1965, memo was sent by Johnson’s special assistant for science and technology, Donald Hornig. ICAS in turn submitted its reports to the Federal Council for Science and Technology — which was led by Hornig, the author of the January 13, 1965, memo.

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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. But we will fight this together.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Hydrogen fuel manufacturing facilities, even when equipped with carbon capture technology create CO2 emissions, and emit methane too. While hydrogen doesn’t emit CO2 when it is used as fuel, currently it is almost solely produced from natural gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the minimum reached, the remaining sea ice that survives the year has had its birthday, aging one year. Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. It also extends to climate justice. Contributors.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2015, he tweeted that he was “v pleased” that the government was making it virtually impossible for wind farms to be built, calling the technology “intermittent, expensive and constantly backed up by gas turbines”. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments. They are all choosing growth.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Italy's health ministry issued "red" alert extreme heat warnings in several regions, with the heat wave expected to spread north and impact a number of cities in the coming days.The heat wave has also exacerbated the spread of wildfires across southern Italy, with Sicily, Calabria, and Puglia the worst-hit regions.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is here,” said Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration during a briefing on the report. The slow creep of sea-level rise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.

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