Defend Our Future

JUNE 8, 2023

She was a renowned environmental activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization focused on environmental conservation and women’s rights. How sea level rise not only threatens polar bears but also leads to entire communities seeking refuge from rising tides.

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Grist

MAY 17, 2021

Ultimately, the researchers will be able to compare and verify what they see in the acoustic imaging data with what they find in the cores to understand how the ancient coast evolved in response to sea-level rise. The idea that beach nourishment is a sustainable way to adapt to climate change, however, is contested.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. Instead, you can read their shorter chapters on the scientific consensus on topics like extreme weather or regional changes in sea-level rise. That’s how sustainability scientist and Lund University Professor Kimberly Nicholas puts it. What is the IPCC?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.”

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

GreenBiz has released its highly anticipated State of Green Business Report 2021 which details the top 10 sustainable business trends for the year ahead. and global companies have made towards meeting sustainability goals. Overall, 2020 was a good year for the sustainability field. s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Developed by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with UN-Water, the report sets out a raft of recommendations for policymakers and business leaders. He also advised that governments should anticipate and respond to climate risks at every level of water management. "We

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In one of these cases, small island states are seeking an advisory opinion that defines countries’ legal requirements for protecting the oceans from harmful climate impacts — such as ocean acidification and sea level rise – that threaten their very existence. In the U.S., It’s a big problem,” Tigre told DeSmog. “I

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Earth Gratitude

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Many of us acted quickly upon our heartfelt desire to be of service and to help, donating to the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, the Hand in Hand benefit and other organizations that are on the ground helping with the recovery and rescue. cities most vulnerable to sea level rise. Organic Gardens. Map of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . The Holocene.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sustainability manager: Setting science-based targets for company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions A global beverage company wanted to quantify its carbon footprint for its own operations and global supply chain. As shown in Figure 2, a physical risk assessment can pinpoint vulnerable sites that could cause problems down the road.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Together, these measures widened the window of advance warning from less than one day to as much as four days, expanding options for residents, businesses, and community and relief organizations to plan and prepare. This requires new types of institutions, communities, built environments, and production and consumption systems.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

🔋 CMBlu , a Alzenau, Germany-based organic solid flow batteries developer, raised $107M in Corporate funding from Strabag.    🧪 EcoBean , a Warsaw, Poland-based sustainable chemicals from coffee beans developer, raised $7M in funding from the FENG program.  of global sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sustainability manager: Setting science-based targets for company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions A global beverage company wanted to quantify its carbon footprint for its own operations and global supply chain. As shown in Figure 2, a physical risk assessment can pinpoint vulnerable sites that could cause problems down the road.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high. In short: to go big.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most of those new billion will be in the middle class economically, as the percentage of citizens in dire poverty continues to drop (a rare sustainability win). Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most of those new billion will be in the middle class economically, as the percentage of citizens in dire poverty continues to drop (a rare sustainability win). Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

Nichols oversees Coastkeeper’s living shorelines program, a project in partnership with California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Fullerton, that restores ecosystem structures like oyster beds and eelgrass meadows, which protect shorelines from waves, erosion, and sea-level rise.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Even international organizations like the U.N.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

“Our hope is that attorney general Maura Healey, if she chooses to take action on this, will hold Harvard accountable for its dangerous fossil fuel investments,” said Sofia Andrade, a sophomore at Harvard and one of the organizers of Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Sustainability and business 3. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. It addresses the position of humans in the global (eco)system, and interprets and applies sustainability as a multi- and inter-disciplinary concept.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Fishermen Organize Against Louisiana LNG Dardar has become something of a minor celebrity in Cameron, waging a campaign along with other fishermen against Venture Global, a fight that has ballooned into a national movement. And it used to be sustainable. Fishermen are down, brother. More down than I’ve ever f **g seen,” Dardar said. “I

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

In the words of Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations, "Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, addressing the climate challenge presents an opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.". Our commitments focus on areas where we can drive real change.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. Sea level rising (not because of melting). How is the Arctic doing? But what year is it?! All bets are off on this one.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

It remains in memory as one of the most disastrous summits ever organized. The pressure had been sustained throughout 2009 and, with the debate at its peak, a new climate summit – COP15 in Copenhagen – arrived at the end of the year. C, while the rise will be between 2-6 meters (roughly 6 to 20 feet) if it is limited to 2°C.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. That’s huge, in and of itself.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Clair — to teach students the science behind the greenhouse effect, sea-level rise, and intensified weather events. The result was ClimeTime, which funds projects and events that connect public school teachers with environmental organizations in their communities, as well as teacher trainings like the one outside Olympia.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

This is the logic and imperative behind an announcement today from 11 environmental and sustainability organizations that have significant influence on the world’s largest companies and on policymakers. In my book The Big Pivot , published in 2014, I laid out 10 strategies to shift business fundamentally toward sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. That’s huge, in and of itself.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group , an organization of mayors from around the global, launched a Detailed Agenda for Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 to ensure that this crisis propels sustainable innovations instead of a return to old ways. . Lauren Faber O'Connor, chief sustainability officer.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Our response to this pandemic is an opportunity to create a much more healthier, more sustainable and equitable city, no doubt about it.” The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise. Below are excerpts from the interviews, edited for length and clarity.

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