GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Finance director: Developing a business case to increase capital expenditure on carbon-mitigation projects . A global manufacturing company wanted to undertake a carbon pricing risk assessment to understand the current and potential future financial implications of carbon regulation and related price increases on operating margins.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Life as an outdoor educator might seem like it’s all fun and games — romping around outside, playing games, looking at bugs — until it comes to talking to 9-year-olds about climate change. They want to talk about it, but it can be hard sometimes,” Ian Schooley said with a laugh.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2021

After a dismal financial performance in 2020, ExxonMobil plans to rapidly ramp up oil and gas drilling off the coast of the former British colony near the outer edges of the Caribbean Sea. It’s not clear what role , if any, climate change may have played in Guyana’s ongoing floods. A Carbon Bomb”. Double the Risks”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is at odds with his own constituents over the issue of climate change, according to new polling. A majority (68 percent) of voters in Clacton, Essex, are concerned about the effects of rising temperatures, according to a poll by More in Common, and the think tank E3G.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Climate TRACE (short for Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) intends to use a massive worldwide network of satellite images, land- and sea-based sensors and advanced artificial intelligence to generate what it’s describing as the "most thorough and reliable data on emissions the world has ever seen.".

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Earth’s rapid warming since the 19 th century offers a unique challenge to the research community in projecting the extent of sea level rise (SLR) by 2100 and beyond.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. But, she added, museums can actually be some of the most carbon-intensive buildings in cities. “Over a third of museums in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

Now finished, the key objective of the project has been to provide an adaptive approach to meeting challenges from climate change. The new wall has been designed to maintain the sea views from the promenade and to account for the impacts of sea level rise and climate change by accommodating a further wall raising in 50 years’ time.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. Meeting audacious goals with meaningful change. The impacts are already here. The impacts are already here.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 1, 2024

Many cities will have disappeared due to sea-level rise. Climate refugees will be on the move. Many people would be malnourished. Forests would be stripped back into savannahs. Island nations would be completely submerged. Normal” temperatures in many parts of the world would be unbearable. Continue reading.

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

Greenland’s melting ice sheet will raise global sea levels by at least 10.6 inches, twice as much as previous estimates, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The new research suggests that extreme temperatures could eventually trigger as much as 30 inches of sea-level rise.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. Access to that money has made it possible for Louisiana to design climate adaptation projects in the short term.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its sixth report on the science of climate change Monday, and the United Nations is calling the conclusions a “code red for humanity.” It’s probably one of the most important things we can be doing in the climate community right now.”.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

As the earth’s temperature warms, coastal populations around the world are wrestling with how to adapt to rising seas. If this small, 20-meter bed is really important in slowing down erosion, and we can track that over time, that’s really good for managers and policy folks who are trying to deal with sea-level rise,” said Nichols.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2021

Our chamber has a long history of taking actions to fight climate change driven by carbon emissions in order to protect small businesses from sea level rise and severe weather, which are costly to individual businesses and the economy in general. Take Environmental Action. Cut Business Costs.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2025

Beyond these artifacts, the industries that created them have left their own scars upon the planet: Atmospheric signatures in carbon isotopes, fly ash from burning fossil fuels, and radioactive waste will be among the clues left for geochemists studying what Zalasiewicz calls our carbon extravaganza” and energy binge.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. A sort of climate boomerang. Here’s how: After blowing past 1.5 Climeworks.

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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 cult of climate change marches on with no definitive evidence to support or deny the factual accuracy of their assertions. “The

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Grist

MAY 24, 2024

As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, glaciers and ice sheets in polar and mountainous regions inevitably melt. The water and dislodged ice flows into the oceans, causing them to rise. The entire region is the gateway to an area that’s well below sea level.”

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2023

Average sea surface temperatures this spring are roughly 1.5 Average sea surface temperatures, by month and year. Climate Change Institute / University of Maine “The oceans are enormous, so they don’t warm very quickly ordinarily,” Robert Rohde, a physicist at the environmental data science nonprofit Berkeley Earth, told Grist.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Sea level rise is killing forests in protected areas on the eastern U.S. A separate study co-authored by Ury and her colleagues reveals that tree deaths due to sea level rise have been happening more dramatically in recent years. The change is largely attributed to climate change and sea level rise.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

.” “Time will tell, but I fear Jordan Peterson’s academy will become misinformation packaged as educational enlightenment and sold to unwitting students by a conservative media company that’s not a real university,” said Mirrlees, who studies rightwing movements and climate change.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not At a conceptual level, I believe that the ecosystem must be balanced and that among the largest issues facing the world?—?poverty climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. outdoors and wildlife.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. The UK is already experiencing widespread changes to its climate, with average land temperatures having risen by around 1.2C The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued that the world’s climate experts should take action — by not taking action.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

A panel of leading scientists convened by the United Nations issued a comprehensive report Monday that contains a stark warning for humanity: The climate crisis is here, some of its most destructive consequences are now inevitable, and only massive and speedy reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can limit the coming disaster.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is trying to understand how much of that carbon stored in the melting permafrost makes its way into the sea, and eventually, into the atmosphere, where it will help heat up the planet. Her research could help inform what the Arctic’s ticking “ carbon bomb ” could unleash in the coming years. Sasha Peterson. “I

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future thresholds beyond which the Earths systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. East Coast could be submerged by rising seas. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. Why does 1.5 Far from it.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

They held banners with the phrase “The climate needs you” and giant alarm clocks to emphasise the urgency of tackling climate change. The action was organised by The Climate Coalition, a group of civil society organisations pushing for greater action on climate change. target alive is closing.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. Anxiety is a growing and understandable psychological response to climate change.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

However, the escalating climate crisis must also be tackled to protect the oceans from acidification, loss of oxygen, and the devastation of coral reefs. One of the overarching messages of the review is, if you stop killing sea life and protect it, then it does come back. However, progress is far from straightforward.

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