EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. . Chief investment officer (CIO): Using TCFD-aligned reporting as a way to engage asset managers on climate issues.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business action, supported by government regulations, investments and incentives, is absolutely critical for transitioning to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Only in recent years have governments recognised more funding will need to be provided to help developing economies adapt to worsening climate risks, and even then the question of how to mobilised increased investment remains highly contentious. This is a kind of mindset issue, as opposed to a huge investment issue," Limbert said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Research shows ensuring businesses and communities know what local flood risks they face can boost resilience, writes Sara Mehryar at LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Enhancing flood resilience is about more than just protecting communities from flooding.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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). Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2020

There is an urgent need to boost investment in climate adaptation and resilience. As such, they urge governments to "climate-proof" their economies and public finances to avoid an "ever-worsening spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt burdens".

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

The number of cold fronts has decreased over the span of the last 20 years but at the same time, anomalous events have occurred more frequently.High-intensity Typhoons tend to occur more frequently as the mean sea level rose at a rate of 3 mm per year.Above is an overall image of climate change in Vietnam. Sea-Level Rise.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. Both types of risk vary considerably based on business type, size, and location. Featured resources. Fiedler, T.,

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Hundreds of cities around the world are facing significant climate hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, and devastating storms, yet many still do not have adaptation and resilience plans in place to address these intensifying threats, according to a sobering new report from CDP.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that. The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Stark new report argues governments and businesses risk coming to COP26 with 'grievously undercooked' climate resilience plans. Labour would tackle the crisis with a Green New Deal, investing £28bn a year on climate action until the end of the decade.". billion extra litres of water per day if no action is taken before 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

In a video address to more than 40 leaders and ministers assembled at the Berlin event this morning, Antonio Guterres slammed political leaders for failing to take adequate action on tackling climate change and mobilising finance to support poorer nations' efforts to decarbonise and bolster their climate resilience.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pumps in response to annually rising sea-levels. By Emily Blitstein In Miami, flooding has been a serious development topic over the last decade.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise. In some places, entire villages and more than a mile of coastline have been lost to the sea. Coastal wetlands can defend communities from storm surge and sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. Many stakeholders are involved in the initiative, across corporations and financial institutions.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  ⚡ Husk Power , a Fort Collins, CO-based rural minigrids developer, raised $103M in Series D funding from STOA, the US International Development Finance Corporation, Shell Ventures, Proparco, and Swedfund  and Debt funding from the European Investment Bank and International Finance Corporation. 

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They are also about storm surges that exacerbate sea level rise and cause widespread flooding. We can prepare by planning and investing in adaptation and resilience, but just how bad it gets will depend on our climate mitigation efforts. These storms are not just about destructive high winds and heavy downpours.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. of warming. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. Many stakeholders are involved in the initiative, across corporations and financial institutions.

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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. Co-benefits typically represent more than 50 per cent of direct benefits from investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. According to the U.K.’s The costs are already being felt.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The municipal authority decided to invest in an end- to-end early warning system, including last mile communication via SMS and other mechanisms throughout the city. Sea-level rise and storm surges alone could cost coastal cities USD 1 trillion each year by 2050, affecting more than 800 million people, the report estimated.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business action, supported by government regulations, investments and incentives, is absolutely critical for transitioning to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. Sea-level rise is obvious here, according to Larry Toomer, who owns an oyster market and restaurant in Bluffton, a fast-growing town in the southern part of the county.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change was a top issue during the election campaign because the community is sick of inaction in the face of worsening impacts like sea level rise, bushfires, heatwaves and floods," she said. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

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. Kirk is right to argue that we have a remarkable track record of resilience and ingenuity.

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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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. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. In a climate-disrupted world, more people are going to need to be more mobile.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". They point to a two-fold increase in sea levels between 1993 and 2010 compared to last century. s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all.

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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

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

But now a major study released today has underscored the urgent need for a comprehensive overhaul of many of the economic assumptions and models that drive governments' policy decisions and corporates' investment strategies.

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