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.

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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. This new narrative about low-carbon resilience and all the co-benefits is literally emerging now and is actually starting to be taken up very quickly," Harford said. According to the U.K.’s

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year? What happens if rising global temperatures and the continued loss of natural habitats expand disease vectors and increase the incidence of novel viruses, turning pandemics into a three or four times a century occurrence?

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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. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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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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AGreenLiving

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. Engage them in community-driven climate resilience planning. and revealed how crises disproportionately affect certain populations.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It is part of a series of background papers commissioned by the Global Commission on Adaptation to inform its flagship report — Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience — which finds that changes in five key areas, including in cities, could generate USD 7.1 trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030.

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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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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

The level of government least able to mitigate and adapt is the level of government most affected. For coastal municipalities, it is a slow-moving wave that imperils land values with sea level rise inch by inch submerging and devaluing a main source of municipal revenue—property (and its accompanying tax revenue).

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Kirk is right to argue that we have a remarkable track record of resilience and ingenuity. Leaving aside whether or not pretty much the entire scientific, political, and financial establishment is populated by "nutjobs", Kirk is guilty of a long-standing error about the nature of risk.

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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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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. Even without political barriers, it’s a costly, destabilizing experience.

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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

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. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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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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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

A fair and fast phaseout of oil, gas and coal needs to happen in this decade, and it can, with the right political will. Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: "Forget distant tropical islands and future generations - we have already seen what 40C summers and flash flooding look like here in the UK.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics. Pull Quote.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Regan said in a statement: “At this moment, when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more disruptive, costing billions of dollars every year from floods, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise, and jeopardising the safety of millions of Americans, the Court’s ruling is disheartening.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” You’ve got to have ownership.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. In 2015, she said fracking was “good for UK economy, self sufficient energy needs & environment”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. This argument is often used to radicalize the denier front and further polarize political debate.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

This plan isn’t the first to point out that America’s internet infrastructure is in dire need of an upgrade , but it is unusual to see lawmakers frame better internet access as an important step toward building climate resilience. You’ve got to build resilience into communities but also people," Kessler said. Policy & Politics.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Nuclear is also low-carbon, but expensive and politically problematic.) As for the power grid, the infrastructure bill does include about $27 billion in direct funding and loans to improve grid reliability and climate resilience. Of the $15 billion that remains for electric vehicles, $2.5 Edwards , William J.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

This plan isn’t the first to point out that America’s internet infrastructure is in dire need of an upgrade , but it is unusual to see lawmakers frame better internet access as an important step toward building climate resilience. “You’ve got to build resilience into communities but also people,” Kessler said.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 8, 2023

If enacted, this bill will expand the requirements of Florida’s Sea-Level Impact Projection (SLIP) studies beyond the current coastal construction zone and into all areas threatened by current and projected sea level rise, not just in areas directly on the coast.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Florida will spend a bunch of money to manage storm water without asking why more frequent storms and rising sea levels are happening.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What do we make resilient? What do we protect? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century.

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