GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. California — as well as the rest of the United States and, in some cases, the rest of the world — is facing three major crises right now: the COVID-19 pandemic; the climate emergency; and racial injustice. . Community Resilience. Deonna Anderson. California.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 24, 2023

How three cities, Cupertino, Orlando and Boston, are using their communities, new technology and buildings to fight the effects of climate change.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2020

Research note suggests businesses with strong ESG credentials are proving more resilient than peers to coronavirus turmoil. But there are regional differences.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Episode 239: Wildfires and resilience, California's car ban. GreenBiz analyst Sarah Golden speaks with state senator Jeff Golden (her father) about the climate change influence and what's next for improving resilience. . Energy & Climate. Resilience. Heather Clancy. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It's also about creating local, adaptive food systems that can withstand the effects of climate change. It's not just about growing more food and using fewer inputs.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Members of the now-disbanded 100 Resilient Cities initiative are back, with a new network dedicated to championing urban initiatives meant to combat the effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26, citing recent evidence gathered as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into nature-based solutions for climate change. Resilience must be a key factor in design and implementation.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. Now, with climate change, come scorching hot temperatures during the summer months which bring additional challenges to healthcare systems that already operate under great pressure due to the pandemic. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

The importance of supply chain resilience in the water sector was the overarching message from Baroness Brown, speaking at a British Water reception held at the House of Lords this week (end of May). She said, “It is really crucial that everybody in the water sector looks at their supply chain resilience.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2020

Researchers from University of Cambridge found that climate change could add around 20 percent to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040. They are urging businesses to evaluate their own exposures to the growing risk to improve their resilience and sustainability.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2020

What role can lesser-known crops that thrive under adversity play in efforts to make our global food supply more resilient to climate change?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

At GreenBiz 22, innovators who are (literally) on the front lines of the fight against climate change received recognition and funding.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2022

Date/Time: January 13, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Reducing emissions across all sectors is critical if we are to combat climate change. With the passage of the infrastructure bill and the urgent need to improve and expand our cities, it’s critical that we build in a way that is both resilient and sustainable.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5 percent to 7.5 percent by 2050. Operational risk factors.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Biden administration’s new National Climate Resilience Framework will help the federal government align decision-making and investments with the need to adapt to climate change.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 14, 2022

Businesses should do their due diligence to identify communities in their supply chains that are most at risk to climate change and work alongside them to adapt and build resilience.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Overall, the top five best states concerning climate resilience are California, Maine, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Each state was ranked based on five environmental factors. These were Carbon Emissions, the Adoption of Green Technology, Landfill Usage, Recycling and Green Policies.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

It found that European pension funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change-related investment risk has surged, with 54 percent of those surveyed now actively considering the impact of such risks in their investment allocations, compared to just 14 percent in 2019. Business as usual?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sustainability professionals are developing and operationalizing resilience and adaptation strategies that are scientifically valid, technically feasible and commercially viable. Yet, too often, these plans don’t sufficiently address potential operational risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building. “By

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2022

With climate change increasingly threatening food systems, building agricultural resilience means restoring endangered crop and food varieties.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Entrepreneurs are on the verge of creating an era that will be marked by abundance, sustainability and resilience.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2020

Thriving in the age of climate change pivots around electricity, and that means electric utilities are at the center.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

As the climate changes, crop cultivation becomes more challenging (image credit: Joanna Clarke, CC-BY 4.0 To meet the agricultural challenges caused by climate change and a growing population, we need to improve crop production. How can we sustainably feed our growing population as the climate changes?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

” A total of €21 million will be awarded across 100 European local and regional governments for “advancing climate change adaptation and resilience”, says the announcement. P2R will also offer the participants assistance as they examine finance mechanisms.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

In the face of these threats, it is clear that greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation is necessary (to minimize future climate changes), but not sufficient. Indeed, this fact has been acknowledged in the 2016 Paris climate agreement.). Equally important though, is how well we will adapt to the inevitable changes.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

So it's allowed us to reintroduce to the world of the business community this notion of what it means to be resilient, and not just to be agile.". Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too. Risk & Resilience. Consider litigation. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Companies often struggle with building community trust as they navigate between profit-making and authentically engaging on climate change and environmental justice matters. Businesses and developers need to embrace resilient thinking rather than viewing job creation and profit-making as their key goals. Marian Jones.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 31, 2024

Climate change, accelerating. The post Investing at the intersection of affordable housing and climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The cost of addressing the challenges facing humanity today dwarfs the amount of money the world is putting into them.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

What can corporations and others do to help grow back millions of acres of trees and prevent losing them to the ravages of climate change? How society and the business world goes about restoring our burned landscapes could make all the difference in whether new forests last.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In retrospect, it also turned out that ESG portfolios contained less financial risk because they had more accurately identified risks from climate change and considered other variables — such as resilience — for which no accepted risk methodology exists. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 16, 2024

Increasing the resilience of Latin America’s energy infrastructure is important to manage the effects of climate change, a new study from the Latin American Energy Organisation (OLADE) indicates. Have you read?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. Risk & Resilience. Climate Change.

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