Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moreover, developing economies where larger numbers of people work outdoors are set to be hit the hardest, with workers plying their trade in tropical and subtropical regions - particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Pacific - expected to bear the worst impacts, the study predicts.

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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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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Narratives on climate change must shift to include discussions on mountain ice melt and loss and not just revolve around sea level rise. Based on the study, Asian water towers were the most vulnerable, particularly the Indus water system. “The Reliance on these water towers means these mountain ecosystems must be safeguarded.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

In some areas, including the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central and eastern Asia, and western North America, droughts are becoming more common and severe due to climate change, which also increases the probability of fires occurring and total burned area in some parts of all continents. Flooding in 2019 destroyed her house.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. 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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It notes that extreme weather events and sea level rise around the world has caused havoc with urban energy and transportation systems, as well as property and critical infrastrucutre, and calls for policymakers to work with all stakeholders to scale solutions that can make cities more resilient in a warming world.

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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. It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. People living in cities face worsening heat stress, reduced air quality, food, and water shortages.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma has hinted that a coalition of industrialised nations is exploring how to introduce new multi-billion dollar green funding packages to emerging economies in Asia building on the just transition deal agreed with South Africa at the COP26 Climate Summit last year. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2024

Nearly every country in the world has committed to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, but global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) continue to rise. As long as the world continues to rely on fossil fuels for energy, temperatures will continue to rise.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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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.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

billion people — notably in South and East Asia and the African Sahel — experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat, hotter than 90 percent of documented temperatures between 1991 and 2020, according to a new report. percent in South Asia. But the most vulnerable people are those who are pregnant.” percent) compared to white women (9.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. New trade routes are emerging, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), for example, is projected to rival Suez Canal traffic and shift trade flows between Asia and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Many other countries in South and Southeast Asia with rapidly growing economies are expanding their use of coal to create electricity. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the message, addressed to the advisory council of the Southern Gas Corridor initiative, which brings gas into Europe from Asia, he said the “cleanest fossil fuel” had “served us well” but would “not serve the interests or wellbeing of our children or our grandchildren”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

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. Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Watch this space.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

The climate-induced environmental threats they face include sea-level rise and shifts in the ranges of important species of food bearing plants. She also serves on the board of 350.org org and is the coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. Environmental insults are compounding the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Another professor, the podcaster and author Michael Malice, claims that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.” Despite the size and relative diversity of the crowd in Fort Worth, many people there seemed to be eager participants in a conservative culture war.

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