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Transatlantic collaboration aims to boost resilience of sea walls

Envirotec Magazine

Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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The Role Of Managed Retreat In Adapting To Sea Level Rise

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute to provide climate and energy research updates. As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Am J Community Psychol 56:180–196.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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With supply chain issues expected to last, companies must go beyond “coping” to fostering resilience

EDF + Business

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise.

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Louisiana breaks ground on experimental project to rebuild lost wetlands

Grist

As it flowed south on its way to the sea, the river continually poured sediment into the basin, gifting it with fresh, nutrient-rich river mud that replenished the land and prevented coastal erosion. But 20th-century innovations like dams and levees stopped the river’s natural systems.

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Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting

GreenBiz

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. . Risk & Resilience. Investor relations manager: Publishing a TCFD-aligned report . Finance & Investing.

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Can the first US 'chief heat officer' build a model for future resilience?

Business Green

Hiring the world's first-ever chief heat officer is an important step forward to innovate and adapt to protect people and save lives.". Before her transition to the chief heat officer, a position she has committed to for a year, Gilbert was the city of Miami's first chief resilience officer (CRO).