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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The scale and scope of what is needed to reduce these climate risks has increased worldwide, and action to boost adaptation and resilience is also increasing. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops

Grist

Researchers say political stability in rainforest countries plays a major role in ensuring forest protection, which could go a long way towards increasing forest resilience to catastrophic outcomes. In July of this year, deforestation in the Amazon fell by 66 percent, hitting a six-year low.

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

And the value of geothermal energy as a rock-solid, resilient, indigenous source of power is increasing as the penetration of intermittent renewables increase. That brings me back to my favorite attributes of geothermal power: it’s reliable, it’s resilient, and it’s baseload, bringing energy security to cities, states and countries.

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'We will not fight climate change with a virus': UN chief warns both climate and coronavirus emergencies 'must be defeated'

Business Green

The world may be on the cusp of a global pandemic, but the scale of the climate crisis presents a greater long term threat and political and business leaders should not be "diverted away from climate action" as they seek to contain the worsening outbreak.

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Climate migration is part of our future. Is it a problem or a solution?

Grist

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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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

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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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. That's the future our children have to contemplate. And it gets worse.