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Not so moral money?

Business Green

As Paul Saffo, a futurist and adjunct professor at Stanford University, told Time magazine for a feature to mark the 20th anniversary of the Y2K panic: "The Y2K crisis didn't happen precisely because people started preparing for it over a decade in advance.".

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. Scientific American magazine took notice of his work and approached Jacobson about writing a paper on the feasibility of powering the world with renewable energy. Though none of the bills have been voted on, President Biden’s proposed $2.3

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The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch

Andrew Winston

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015. Get your copy here.

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The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch

Andrew Winston

Many highly populated coastal areas will be in consistent trouble, as sea levels rise. Here’s some good news: Due to continuing drops in the cost of clean technologies, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise , making up more than half the global new power capacity every year since 2015. Get your copy here.

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Global Briefing: Italy experiences new European temperature record

Business Green

It was then first published by the journalist Juan Bordera in the Spanish online magazine CTXT. Without immediate and bold action, we are staring down ever-worsening floods and heat waves, droughts, and sea level rise," Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said in speech on Monday.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. We have to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5% [sic].

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

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. And in a quieter move, a major real estate investor in Miami began pulling money out of coastal assets to avoid risk of sea level rise.