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 year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Identified risks range from the direct fiscal impacts of climate-related natural disasters and adaptation and mitigation programmes to the more indirect impacts climate change can have on trade, capital flows, and a region's political stability.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. According to the researchers at North Carolina State University this may have to do with the fact that parents care about their kids and the political innocence of children.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A combination of climate change and a billion-dollar project derailed by political scandal are factors contributing to the damage. Related: Study estimates sea level rise two times worse than worst-case scenario Climate change is exacerbating the situation as melting ice, snow and glaciers around the world are raising sea levels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Greenpeace UK’s Executive Director, John Sauven, said: “These pivotal climate talks require bold policies, tough targets and political will from all governments.

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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.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power. But in most cases there isn’t a direct line between science and policy action — and there never has been. Science can tell us that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, but it can’t tell us exactly how we should transition our economy to clean energy.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F). Yet they had little to offer in terms of the U.S.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The remit of the IPCC is rightly restricted to scientific questions, but the consequences that will flow from rising sea levels and spiralling temperatures are economic and political, and as such they are defined by considerable risks and uncertainties. Five metres is possible by 2150.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Using the courts has become especially critical, say climate experts and lawyers, given the insufficient political responses to the climate emergency. “In A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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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 includes $160 trillion dollars worth of savings associated with climate action and massive risks associated with inaction. According to the U.K.’s The costs are already being felt. In collaboration with the B.C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Sea level rises and climate change-driven coastal erosion - and the resulting breaches of flood defences - mean that relying on higher flood walls alone will not see communities winning the war against water. And in some cases, they can also create a false sense of security.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first? But Exxon knew it back in ‘79.

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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? Over the past fortnight the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in hot takes highlighting the unnerving similarities between the global public health emergency and the worsening climate emergency that runs alongside it.

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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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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Jeanne Yacoubou has broken down the numbers concerning climate change in 2019 , and we’ve seen how Miami is fighting against sea-level rise.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Today, however, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that if scrapped even temporarily, VAT would then be politically difficult to reinstate later, and that should the policy become permanent it could serve to make it harder for the UK to meet its net zero targets. "If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Environment Agency has today published a sobering new report, warning the world is failing to adapt to escalating climate impacts, which are set to see sea levels rise by up 78cm by the 2080s at the same time as flood and drought risks soar. billion extra litres of water per day if no action is taken before 2050.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. . · Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. Nearly 95% of major U.S. And now, with a new U.S.

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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. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. . “It’s triage at this point,” Helvarg explained. ” Given U.S.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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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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 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. The new Labor government has made commitments to significantly increase Australia's action on climate change.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Predicting politics is nearly impossible, and it’s hard to imagine how global policy action on climate and other megatrends will play out. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Predicting politics is nearly impossible, and it’s hard to imagine how global policy action on climate and other megatrends will play out. By 2030, we are very likely to already be at or approaching the 1.5

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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. This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Economic losses and damages are inevitable Loss and damage has been a hot topic for years in international climate negotiations, with last year's COP27 Conference seeing richer counties capitulate to calls from developing nations for a dedicated fund to help them cope with the impacts of climate-related floods, droughts, and sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. For a long time, the debate focused more on CO2 concentrations than on warming levels. But why are both numbers so important?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In a politically polarized society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes. Viruses are oblivious to political affiliation, and so is the changing climate. When people say we can’t take action because action is expensive, they are in denial of the cost of inaction. In the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

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. Or, as he puts it, throughout his financial career there has always been "some nutjob telling me about the end of the world".

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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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Grist

JUNE 11, 2021

Gohmert’s question comes three years after a congressional science, space and technology committee hearing, focused on how technology could be deployed for climate change adaptation, heard from the Alabama Republican Mo Brooks on the subject of sea-level rise.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to the report, other possible climatic effects of increased CO2 included the melting of the Antarctic ice-cap, sea-level rises, and warming of the oceans. It also emphasized that this increase in CO2 would likely affect the Earth’s climate, causing a parallel increase in average temperatures near the Earth’s surface.

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