DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Last month, the worst heatwave ever recorded hit Japan. Keith Berry looks down into flooded streets searching for survivors.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

A group of Six African countries this week formally launched the Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance , with a view to accelerating to new energy technologies that open up access to clean, affordable energy supplies to all. The Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance will go a long way in fostering these developments.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

temperature goal agreed by governments. And Nicolette Bartlett, chief impact officer at investor-backed climate disclosure initiative CDP, said the IPCC's stark findings should act as a major catalyst for action among the business and governments in high-emitting economies most responsible for climate change. "In

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

The reason: companies that have committed resources towards ESG tend to be better managed and governed. companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. Nearly 95% of major U.S. ESG is also focusing on human rights.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

We are all aware that climate change is a real threat, and in order for it to be tackled effectively we need to work together as businesses, governments, NGOs and individuals. million hectares of natural forestry landholdings in Russia and 254,000 hectares of plantation forestry landholdings in South Africa. We manage around 2.3

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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. 2/2) [link].

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

It has been widely discussed and debated, in public view, among scientists, media, governments, business and society as a whole.” All shared Wilson’s goal of producing an authoritative account for governments on how the world could power itself to the end of the century.

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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. When cities grow without that planning, precarious slums fill in the gaps.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

If this is a biological response, imagine what’s happening in places like India and Africa where the heat can get to an unbearable 130 degrees Fahrenheit,” Basu remembers thinking. Ana Bonell, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studies heat and birth outcomes in western Africa and Pakistan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A threat that was still in the future, with consequences happening somewhere else, with melting poles, small island communities affected by sea level rise or drought in the global south, far away from our robust, modern societies. It's not just a government issue. This will require increased efforts from all of us.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In summer 2021, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raised the threat level posed by climate change to a ' code red for humanity'. As well as mitigating threats, governments and their militaries are manoeuvring to exploit opportunities and leverage advantage. times higher than the global average. Arctic militarisation.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For the 21 million residents of Lagos, Nigeria, climate change is not a distant concept it is a current reality. Over the past decade, the city has experienced devastating floods, exacerbated by the loss of over half of its wetlands.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Over the past several years, European governments and corporations have made moves to capitalize off this potential, investing in sprawling mega-projects to capture the sun’s energy from the region’s vast deserts and export the electricity north. LY: And all of these places are experiencing the escalating severity of the climate crisis.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Champions of the Paris Agreement, as it was called, included both the world’s mega-emitters like the United States and China and the small island nations most vulnerable to sea level rise. And if we follow through on the commitments that this agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

government agencies issued the U.S. Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. It wasn’t just the IPCC that told a stark story. Thirteen U.S. And more than 100 U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

She was a dedicated protector of the natural world who bravely stood up to powerful corporations, corrupt governments and police with ties to death squads. She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa. Wangari Matthai of Kenya, the first environmentalist to win a Noble Prize.

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