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GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. They called it the Blue New Deal.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
political will. Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas.
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DeSmogBlog
APRIL 21, 2022
The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Sea level rise is just one imminent threat for Silicon Valley.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 22, 2021
I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.” and PhD in Atmospheric Science.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said.
Energy Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2022
Tackling climate change will require economic and social transformation, but this level of change can only be achieved with political pressure from a critical mass of individuals and communities spanning demographics, socio-economic status, and geographies. Source: Marazziti et al.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. Using the courts has become especially critical, say climate experts and lawyers, given the insufficient political responses to the climate emergency. “In These recalcitrant countries should be prepared to “lawyer up,” say climate advocates and lawyers.
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