The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

At best the permits minimize coastal erosion and gloss over storm surge and flood risks in relation to climate change,” he said. Cristen Jenkins used the frisbee she got from Shell’s float as a fan to cool off. Real science isn’t being used to guide their decisions.” Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Understand climate impacts and risks for what they are Karl Limbert, director of strategy and external relations at Equans, said it was critical that businesses started to appreciate that extreme and erratic weather events were climate change, and not "ad-hoc, unfortunate weather".

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Zero emission vehicles (ZEV) led the charge, as YoY sales volume increased 52% to 1.4M vehicles, but price decreases tamped down overall investment growth to 30%.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. Climate change impacts are not a distant prospect, but today's reality, affecting nature, people's lives and infrastructure everywhere, and scientific evidence on the scale of the threat is becoming stronger all the time.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2021

s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “code red for humanity.” In this first major review of climate change science since 2013, the results are clear. “It Related: The 10 countries most and least threatened by climate change The other most urgent message? chief called the report by the U.N.’s

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Earth Gratitude

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The map below, which has been assembled by the Union of Concerned Scientists , shows the cities along the Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Seaboard that are most at risk from sea level rise. cities most vulnerable to sea level rise. Map of U.S. © The Union of Concerned Scientists. Used with permission.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. We need to shift the whole game, raise the level of ambition, move that needle.

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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. The impacts are already here. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”.

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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. But nuclear war is not climate change, and the NPT is not the Paris Agreement.

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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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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change has altered those conditions though, by warming oceans to record high temperatures and introducing more freshwater through sea-ice and glacier melt. We’re talking huge, huge climate changes in a very short time,” said Ditlevsen. “We degree Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. “We’re

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Humanity is facing an “all hands on deck” climate change emergency. Comfort and safety were significantly improved in this project. Policy Recommendations.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Climate Change Conference in Paris. This was the first time we “met,” albeit via a cross-country phone call.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

The launch took place at the first-ever Green Hydrogen Global Assembly in Barcelona, with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, the Green Hydrogen Organisation, the African Development Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

vehicle fleet, considered crucial to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Even if Earth does not have had Arctic sea ice in most of its history, it plays a crucial role in regulating our current climate. Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Astrid Riecken / The Washington Post via Getty Images As human-caused climate change continues, the number, intensity and duration of heat waves will only get worse. stem largely from systemic racism and are worsening due to climate change. Bates / Grist A 2023 study found that the average preterm birth rate was 7.9

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As COVID-19 rampages through vulnerable minority populations with tragic consequences, and protests for racial justice surge among a similar demographic, city climate planners see a renewed focus on climate justice. The city is also investing in seawalls to prevent erosion due to sea level rise. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

On the website of CAR26 the group questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests that teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. Perry has said the climate crisis is a “con” designed by “elites” to make people poor and hungry.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. We need more transformative adaptation actions to keep pace with climate change.” Here they are.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

8 cities share how racial justice is embedded into their climate plans Jesse Klein Mon, 07/20/2020 – 02:00 As COVID-19 rampages through vulnerable minority populations with tragic consequences, and protests for racial justice surge among a similar demographic, city climate planners see a renewed focus on climate justice.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

This has included attacking net zero emissions reduction targets as a “cult”, claiming the UK government “wants to cover all our farmland” with solar panels, and spuriously suggesting that climate change is caused by sunspots and underwater volcanoes. Reform MPs have a record of climate science denial. This comes as the U.S.

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