Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

New study identifies 20 local authorities across England where thousands of properties could be lost to the sea by 2050. Nearly 200,000 English properties are at risk of being abandoned by the 2050s due to climate change-induced sea level rise, according to a major new study published today.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Latest round of UN climate talks for shipping delivers mixed results, offering progress on black carbon while a resolution for a 2050 zero emission target was quashed. In light of this, the lack of support for the proposed resolution from vulnerable low-lying island states is an unacceptable response to the climate crisis.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Lowe, who shares Reform’s views on net zero, has previously claimed that there is a “cult of climate change” promoting unscientific theories about rising temperatures and their effects. The Kona Energy website says that battery storage is critical to meeting the UK’s “legally binding commitment to become net zero by 2050”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. Some of these impacts are now thought to be irreversible within timespans stretching to thousands of years.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 11, 2021

Listen to “Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding In 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick” on Spreaker… The post Earth911 Podcast: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick appeared first on Earth911.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The party, run by climate science denier Nigel Farage , has called on the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target to be scrapped entirely. Reform’s former leader Richard Tice , who is now Farage’s deputy, is also a prominent climate science denier.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Regan said in a statement: “At this moment, when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more disruptive, costing billions of dollars every year from floods, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise, and jeopardising the safety of millions of Americans, the Court’s ruling is disheartening.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 5, 2023

Africa’s population is growing faster than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to more than double by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City shows, is combining with climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

One of the starkest conclusions of the IPCC report is that even if the world moves immediately to slash emissions so as to deliver net zero by 2050, climate impacts will continue to intensify over the coming decades. Under higher emissions scenarios, two metres of sea level rise cannot be ruled out.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

As global temperatures rise, more land-based ice melts, leading to sea level rise. The report warns that by 2050, major flooding events will have increased in intensity. The study has identified some regions that are likely to be affected the most by the continuous rise in sea levels.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 30, 2019

The melting of the ice caps affects everyone — particularly Southeast Asia — and the world must strive to meet its Paris Agreement targets to avoid dramatic sea level rise from 2050, say polar explorer Robert Swan and scientist Adam Switzer

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) joined the international Race to Zero Campaign, which aims to reach net zero carbon emissions around the world by 2050. Louisiana’s approach to tackling the climate crisis is steeped in cognitive dissonance. James Parish, even after a judge revoked air quality permits issued by the state.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The law also aims to restore 20% of member countries’ land and sea by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050, as well as placing restoration obligations on specific types of habitat and identified protected areas.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

And while both have stated their commitment to the UK's 2050 net zero target and expanding home insulation, they have so far offered little further detail.

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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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2021

Then there’s the melting sea ice, retreating glaciers and rising oceans. In the last 50 years, the sea level rise has sped up nearly three times as fast as it increased between 1901 and 1971. Cut emissions in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 and we might survive.

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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.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. Both types of risk vary considerably based on business type, size, and location.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some invest in greener technology to meet the reduction targets in 2050 (green bars), while others do not invest and pay a high carbon tax or experience lost revenue resulting from bans on the use of certain materials (red bars). This shows a rapid increase in carbon tax, with companies reacting in various ways.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. By 2050 almost 70 per cent of the world's growing population is set to live in urban areas, many in unplanned and or informal settlements. People living in cities face worsening heat stress, reduced air quality, food, and water shortages.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 up to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050 (Fairley, 2009). (Welch, 2019). National Academies committee member Jennifer Wilcox of Worcester Polytechnic Institute indicates the technology is viable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From forecasting a particular number of degrees of warming by 2100, setting net-zero targets for 2025 / 2030 / 2045 / 2050, and the narrative that we have just a decade left to keep future temperatures spiralling above 1.5ºC. Dates tend to loom large in the climate crisis conversation. It's time to act.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some invest in greener technology to meet the reduction targets in 2050 (green bars), while others do not invest and pay a high carbon tax or experience lost revenue resulting from bans on the use of certain materials (red bars). This shows a rapid increase in carbon tax, with companies reacting in various ways.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business action, supported by government regulations, investments and incentives, is absolutely critical for transitioning to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle. The stakes are high.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

West Oakland, California Grist / Getty Images Oceans do not stop where the sea meets the shore. Many Americans are familiar with sea-level rise. Sea-level rise is obvious here, according to Larry Toomer, who owns an oyster market and restaurant in Bluffton, a fast-growing town in the southern part of the county.

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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. Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, said: "Today's report provides an unequivocal message to all governments - set higher ambitions and act faster, or risk losing it all.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. The state could lose a third of its coast by 2050.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

But conservation successes, while still isolated, demonstrate the remarkable resilience of the seas. The scientists say there is now the knowledge to create an ocean renaissance for wildlife by 2050 and with it bolster the services that the world’s people rely on, from food to coastal protection to climate stability.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Mountains in the Arctic in 2012: The region can expect an ice-free summer “at least once before 2050”, under even the most optimistic scenarios described in the latest IPCC report (image credit: duncan c , CC BY-NC 2.0

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise. Hamilton said Harvard’s net-zero-by-2050 target is irrelevant to the idea that these investments are illegal today. Harvard declined to comment on the complaint.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971. The main driver of the global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s and the decrease in Arctic sea-ice is human behaviour. The past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850. We are responsible for 90% of the melt. .”

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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 study assessed 154 pledges submitted by countries at the end of COP26. The difference between 1.5 The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”. While the 1.5-degree

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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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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

Credit: International Energy Agency (IEA) To top the month off, the International Energy Agency (IEA) came out with a very clear report on the implications of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 as well as the interim milestones recommended to pursue that pathway.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

"I think it's really important to reinforce the point that net zero doesn't solve this problem - the climate will go on changing, at least until 2050," she explained. And indeed, some aspects of climate change, such as sea level rise, will go on well beyond that.

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