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The Role Of Managed Retreat In Adapting To Sea Level Rise

Energy Innovation

As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al.

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

Grist

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2

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Des Moines, Iowa commits to 24/7 clean electricity

Renewable Energy World

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Originally published on ILSR.org .

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? US clean investment cleans up with $239bn #187

Climate Tech VC

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.

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Can the world overshoot its climate targets — and then fix it later?

Grist

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Scientists say sea level rise is one of the irreversible impacts of an overshoot scenario.

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‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s Primer on Climate Denial Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science

DeSmogBlog

A study of California’s fires in 2018 – another hot, dry year – when the town of Paradise burned, estimated the damage , including health costs and economic disruption, at about $148.5 Rising global temperatures , worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”