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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (to be released on September 25), is expected to highlight major threats to the ocean from climate change, such as declining fish stocks, rising sea levels and increasing ocean acidification.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. This year, the price spread has contracted , shrinking the savings gained by investing in scrubber installations.

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Not so moral money?

Business Green

The first thing to say about this week's explosively contrarian speech from Stuart Kirk , global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, on "why investors need not worry about climate risk" is that this is not really about Stuart Kirk. However, the lack of original analysis does not make this argument any less dangerous.

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Climate change is creating security threats around the world - and militaries are responding

Business Green

Anthropogenic climate change is at once evident and escalating, transforming natural, economic and socio-political environments. In the UK, the army has invested in prototype electric hybrid armoured, reconnaissance and logistic vehicles, with significantly reduced emissions and improved performance. Action has followed words.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses. These risks should be measured, disclosed and mitigated.

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. Length: 1 hour 37 minutes. 8: Generation Green New Deal.

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Here there be monsters

Business Green

And investment in fossil fuel infrastructure and ever increasing extraction is still continuing. The global clean tech investment blitz has demonstrably started to bend the emissions curve in the right direction. Even then the world would be looking at nearly 3C of warming by 2100 and all the risks of runaway warming that come with it.