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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

UN-Habitat’s Urban Resilience Hub has defined urban resilience as “the measurable ability of any urban system, with its inhabitants, to maintain continuity through all shocks and stresses, while positively adapting and transforming toward sustainability” and a key part of that ability will be technological. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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Big Oil Faces Mounting Legal Battles Over Climate Threats to its New England Oil Terminals

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins A New England-based environmental law group is taking major oil companies to court, claiming the firms have failed to adapt some of their petroleum storage terminals to withstand increasingly severe storm and flooding events worsened by the climate crisis. .

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Tesla launches home charger with J1772 connector

Charged

The price tag of $415 is comparable to that of other basic Level 2 chargers. There’s no particular reason for a non-Tesla EV driver, or even a mixed EV household, to buy a Tesla charger (like all J1772 chargers, the new box can charge Tesla vehicles with a simple plug adapter). The J1772 Gen 2 Wall Connector provides 9.6

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

Agenda is billed as 'first comprehensive global plan' to rally companies, governments, and NGOs behind a shared set of adaptation best practices. At the core of the outcomes is the recognition that adaptation is often locally-driven and globally relevant, while simultaneously needing to address equity, diversity and justice," he said.

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Comedy Can Help Us Tackle The Climate Crisis – Here's How

DeSmogBlog

From the performance of funerals for lost species and glaciers to the claim that the best we can do is adapt to impending catastrophe , climate change is often narrated like a classic Greek tragedy. Tags: climate change comedy

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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times. For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. What are digital product passports?

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 For example: Two years ago, the Fourth National Climate Assessment noted that continued warming “is expected to cause substantial net damage to the U.S. percent of GDP by 2100.