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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Once operational, the new facilities will reduce the carbon and environmental footprint associated with biosolids management. “We In addition, the Cambi technology allows the SFPUC to enhance odour control and boost biogas output and energy recovery. said Eirik Fadnes, Cambi CEO.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The international journal Oceans and Coastal Management also produced a study in 2022 suggesting that the Tendring area, which encompasses Clacton, is exposed to sea level rises – potentially affecting hundreds of homes. We need a serious national debate about the scale of the threat.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

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. This essential cooperation throughout the design and construction stages ensured a smooth, cost-effective delivery.”

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Grist

MAY 24, 2024

Thwaites Glacier, often dubbed the “ Doomsday glacier, ” already accounts for 4 percent of the planet’s sea level rise and loses 50 billion tons of ice annually. The entire region is the gateway to an area that’s well below sea level.” Predicting the speed of ice loss and sea level rise is no easy task.

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Grist

JUNE 28, 2024

Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. From above and below, Antarctica’s vault of ice, holding back almost 60 meters of potential sea level rise , seems more imperiled than ever.

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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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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. Cut Business Costs. Attract Customers.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Across Europe, National Road Administrations (NRAs) are having to deal with more frequent and severe weather, greater sea level rises and increased stress on infrastructure leading to higher deterioration rates. The impact of climate change on our road network is climbing the list of national priorities.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Last month, a Netherlands court ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 45 percent by 2030, and in April a German court ruled that the country’s climate targets were insufficient and therefore partly unconstitutional.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. degrees of warming only to dip back down later.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2024

Those marshes absorb the power of strong storm surges and capture carbon in their grasses and mud. There are going to be more and more bulkheads built along the Georgia coast over the years as the sea level rises,” he said. And though each project is small, Sapp said they can add up.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Wetlands are a unique habitat that filters water, sucks up carbon dioxide, and protects our coasts — but the triple threat of sea-level rise, pollution, and development is putting them at risk.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2024

The website – which lists Lowe as an investor – says that Kona Energy is backed “by several highly supportive investors” and that it is seeking new partners “who share the company’s mission to deliver the zero carbon future.” The party’s former leader Richard Tice , who is now its chairman, is also a prominent climate science denier.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its first report on global warming, carbon dioxide emissions have climbed by about 67 percent. They’ve courted the media and practically begged policymakers to cut the use of coal, oil, and gas. But for the most part, scientists have been ignored. Since 1990, when the U.N.’s

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2025

And that temperature target is at the heart of the Paris Agreement because it is deemed to be the level at which the risks of passing tipping points in the climate system that trigger catastrophic runaway warming become unacceptable. This includes governments committing to the long-term policy certainty established by UK carbon budgets."

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to DeSmog’s investigation, they include icon carver and YouTuber Jonathan Pageau, who has characterized fears about climate change as “secular apocalypticism,” as well as podcaster and author Michael Malice, who has said that projections of sea-level rise are “literally a religious belief.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. Previous studies have quantified the share of increasing average temperatures, rising sea levels , and ocean acidification attributable to major industrial emitters.

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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. Black carbon is a potent, short-lived greenhouse gas that is responsible for roughly seven per cent of global shipping's impact on the climate, second only to carbon dioxide.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Not only does energy efficiency have value in carbon reduction, but it makes electric bills more affordable and buildings more comfortable. Kari Carney. Episode Notes.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. Thats because fear is an unreliable motivator.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The IEA said that “Steve firmly believes that climate change is happening and carbon emissions are having an impact.” “Behind all the talk about a climate emergency, climate crisis” is “an animus and hostility towards” working-class people, “their lifestyle, their beliefs and a desire to change it by force if necessary,” he said.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Climate Action Planning Creating Low Carbon Resilient Communities, an adaptation blueprint for communities, will take place on August 7, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT. This is an Island Press Webinar Series. The panelists are the authors of Climate Action Planning (published by Island Press).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

In the Court opinion , Chief Justice John Roberts, wrote: “Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day’.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2022

"Today, 9,000 kilometres of open English coast is at risk from sea flooding, erosion and landslips, and by 2100 once-a-century sea level events are set to become annual events," she said. "As As a minimum, we need to plan for at least a metre rise of sea level rise by the end of the century.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

And more recently, a group of scientists and former high-ranking government officials (mostly Republican), launched the Climate Leadership Council , which is pushing for a package of policies that includes a carbon fee and “dividend” that returns most of the revenue to citizens. This time could be different.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A New Yorker may not think about the forested Catskills Mountain Range upstate as she pours a glass of water. Londoners probably don’t consider the Amazon rainforest as they watch the rain falling on city parks. And folks in Addis.

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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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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These runaway global temperatures have had far-reaching repercussions, such as creating climate extremes, unpredictable precipitation, retreating glaciers, sea level rise , ecosystem imbalances and endangerment of many flora and fauna. NOAA + NASA Image via Angie Agostino.

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