GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In response, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is undertaking a significant package of flood defence measures to protect the community from future events and to reduce the risk of flooding from the River Don and its tributaries.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Extreme weather events and volatile energy demands often push the system to the brink. Although these high-impact events can be very damaging, often overlooked is the impact of minor disruptions that trigger a domino effect throughout the system, according to a study analyzing European power blackouts.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. According to author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that result in extreme, unintended consequences. Tom Baruch.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Seventy-five per cent of the raw materials required will be sourced from the UK, up from 10% today, helping to maintain the countrys self-sufficiency in steel and making steel production more resilient to global events.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

While climate risk remains an often overlooked or undervalued factor in risk management programs, there is an urgent need to integrate resiliency into core business strategy if businesses want to continue to thrive — or even remain operational. Risk & Resilience. Pull Quote. Climate Change. Finance & Investing. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The technology can help withstand catastrophic events and allow for quicker recoveries when the worst occurs.

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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 30, 2024

As the planet grapples with increasingly severe weather events, our infrastructure faces a critical test. The post Strong Foundations: Innovative Solutions for Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure appeared first on Cleantech Group. Buildings, utilities, and other physical assets must be.

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2024

Climate change and global warming are expected to increase the risk of these events occurring, which could significantly disrupt activities in the area. The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The value of energy resiliency is increasing in the face of stronger weather events and natural disasters, and the electrical grid isn’t always prepared to withstand these adverse environmental pressures.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

More than 100 experts, including climate scientists, flood impact modellers, operational meteorologists, risk management practitioners, and community representatives, will convene in Malawi to share knowledge and prioritise actions to better tackle extreme weather events in the region and beyond.

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TechXplore

JUNE 27, 2024

Power outages are on the rise nationwide as climate change brings more frequent wildfires, heat waves, and severe weather events.

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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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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 29, 2025

Today, we are proud to launch the Planet AI Symposium , a virtual event where leading experts join Planet to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. This event explores how the intersection of AI and Earth observation data could help build a more secure, sustainable, and resilient world.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2024

New research appears to find that the number of water scarcity events in Scotland could double by 2050, presenting a need for key industries to do more to adapt. To support these areas, British Geological Survey and the University of Aberdeen developed a new framework to help estimate groundwater resilience.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. Employee Engagement and Organization-Wide Events. Building Community Resilience for a Secure Future.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 2, 2024

Entergy Texas, which provides electricity to approximately 512,000 customers in 27 counties, has filed for approval of phase one of its Texas Future Ready Resilience Plan to ‘harden’ the grid. Our comprehensive Resiliency Plan creates stronger communities while managing customer bill impacts.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Chubb , a global commercial property and casualty insurer, enlisted Carter to develop a new sustainability and resiliency resource hub targeting its crop, farm, and agribusiness clients. With a portfolio encompassing more than 90 million acres of farmland, this project i s set to drive major engagement on climate risk across the sector.

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POWER Magazine

JUNE 26, 2024

Risks posed by geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) events add challenges to an already complex power system environment. How prepared is the […] The post Mitigating EMP and GMD Risks for Power Grid Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine. But they remain crucial to address.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

But on the other side of this equation is an opportunity: A world in which electric vehicles actually help make the grid more resilient, and render electricity cheaper for everyone. A world in which electric vehicles actually help make the grid more resilient, and render electricity cheaper for everyone. Missed VERGE Electrify?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2020

We are only in phase one of a pandemic that has changed the rhythm of daily life like no other recent event. Here are five lessons to guide us through these turbulent times and the uncertainties which lie ahead.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This article explores methods to assess the spatial distribution of heat risk during heatwave events using Planet’s unique Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, which captures continual and near-real-time observations at 1:30 a.m. Tracking where and when heat builds up and how it spreads is critical for protecting urban populations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Secretary of Transportation offers a vision for a new era of transportation infrastructure that puts sustainability, equity, and resilience front and center, and discusses the role of public and private enterprise in making that vision a reality. Learn more about the event here: [link]

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too. Pull Quote.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

All of these events also will be available on demand. Register for the live event at 1 p.m. We'll debate "Reusable Packaging in the Age of Contagion," "Can Recycled Plastic Survive Low Oil Prices" and "Repair, Resilience and Customer Engagement." Register here for our half-day event starting at 1 p.m. Can't join live?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Delegate feedback from the event: “Simon delivered a superb CPD workshop explaining and unravelling the complexities of the circular economy from the perspective of designers and manufacturers. The educational event explores the latest guidelines, standards, and legislation, Life Cycle Assessments and associated metrics.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Energy resilience is driving more customers to microgrid as a service model . No PR campaign could have better educated companies on the need for energy resilience than recent extreme weather events. With microgrid-as-a-service, customers can get the resilience benefits and not even fork over the cash. .

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2025

The month-long event is about fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing to position geothermal energy as a cornerstone of the clean energy transition. To learn more about the Geothermal Declaration of Communication and sign it, visit [link] Notes [1] Geothermal energy contributes approximately 0.3%

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With events such as the recurring California wildfires and mudslides, hurricanes Harvey and Maria and Typhoon Hagibis, which have had catastrophic human and economic costs, it is perhaps unsurprising that governments, regulators and investors have started to ask companies to disclose their climate risks, including physical risk.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

With nearly a half its land lying below sea level, the Netherlands knows a lot about water and how to make sure a city’s infrastructure is resilient to it, particularly flood risks and freshwater supply. Melody Waintal. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 00:05. The global need for freshwater is set to grow exponentially.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Home batteries proved their resilience value during Vermont's Halloween blackout. Among those affected, 1,100 homes managed to keep the lights on thanks to pilot programs specifically designed to promote resilient backup power with energy storage. One reason for that is the utility keeps adding more batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

‘The Floating House’, can also be used as storage for food, water, medicines, and sanitation products and is designed to enhance disaster resilience within a local community at family level. In the event of a flood, the plastic barrels underneath the ground floor will give the house a raft-like capability to float above the rising waters.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

David Black, chief executive of Ofwat, giving a keynote address at the British Water event. We need to take action now and design in resilience from today. The sector is expected to step up environmental performance, improve resilience and asset health at a time when customers are facing a cost of living crisis.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. With wildfires emerging as a nearly year-round threat to western states, the resilience that solar plus storage offers is growing in importance. How to value solar plus storage.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as a catalyst to awakening interest and adoption of these strategies as reasonable approaches to remain resilient during these uncertain times. Taiwan is holding in-person events, with safety protocols in place.

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