Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty. Increasing urbanisation is a risk - and also an opportunity.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

It is a stark reminder of the need to set out comprehensive and ambitious delivery plans to meet net zero by 2050. We must fight to stop every fraction of a degree increase in global warming. Fossil fuel companies have access to infrastructure and reserves that will force global warming beyond dangerous limits.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

All 154 commitments included targets to cut emissions by 2030, and 76 included long-term targets stretching out to 2050 and beyond. The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”. The study assessed 154 pledges submitted by countries at the end of COP26. The difference between 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

.” The report’s authors support this position with a wealth of grim landmarks, including: The global surface temperature of the planet was 1.09C higher in the decade between 2011-2020 than between 1850-1900. The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971. What can be done?

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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. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. Climate impacts 2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, with temperature rise currently projected to overshoot the 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Freshwater use – Water is becoming increasingly scarce – by 2050 about half a billion people are likely to be subject to water insecurity. If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming. Resilience Thinking and Sustainability.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Morrison was eventually pressured into announcing a 2050 net zero target for Australia last year, but critics were quick to point out that the plan for getting there lacked detail or credibility. The new Labor government has made commitments to significantly increase Australia's action on climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Risks A report from Zurich reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. As explained by Zurich, "businesses that don't build resilience to rising sea levels will get soaked". meters by 2050.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

Net zero by 2050 is not enough Yesterday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his response to the IPCC's findings to pronounce that richer nations' 2050 net zero targets would need to be brought forward to 2040, while those emerging economies yet to set mid-century targets would need to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who has called for climate policies to be scrapped, is building a new property in an area threatened by flooding due to global warming. Given the overwhelming evidence of human-induced climate change, there is an urgent need for people at all levels of society to respond accordingly.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. She added, “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: Net zero by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

She’s also announced a “net zero review” to find the most cost-effective ways to reach the UK’s 2050 target, led by one of the greenest Tories there is – Chris Skidmore. Labour criticised her for claiming that “the ice caps aren’t melting after all” and that “global warming isn’t actually happening”.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories. feet by 2050.

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