Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 13, 2023

billion to improve public health and reduce pollution Green roofing and rooftop gardens, clean energy, and zero emission school buses will all help reduce emissions and help cool off urban areas. As sea levels rise and floods become more common, infrastructure like this will be all the more critical to reducing damage.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. As a direct result of climate change a growing global population is increasingly facing illness, injuries, malnutrition, threats to physical and mental health, inequality, and poverty.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

We can't rely on risky, untested and downright dangerous removals technologies just because big polluters want us to stick to the status quo. We must fight to stop every fraction of a degree increase in global warming. The world's scientists tell us that we must bring down emissions rapidly to limit global warming and keep 1.5C

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. Imagine if everybody possessed that level of environmental literacy. How about producing energy without pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels is in serious danger as policymakers fail to take the necessary steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ” “Global warming of 1.5°C

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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. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Working Group II analysis published this morning - the first report on the impact of climate change from IPCC scientists in eight years - notes that climate change is already affecting billions of people around the world and warns these impacts are set to intensify over the coming years as global temperatures continue to accelerate.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. HEALTH Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health edited by Wael K.

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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. Since these polluting gas appliances were rarely used — and with no compelling electric options — they were left in place. Some people say this is the new normal. Lessons Learned.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . If this permafrost thaws, it will release CO2 and methane which can even further accelerate global warming.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2024

Nearly every country in the world has committed to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, but global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) continue to rise. rules to limit pollution from factories or power plants). new investments in solar).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more. The facts are undeniable.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

The country's national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement remained worryingly underpowered, aligned with as much as up to 4C of global warming, according to some experts. The new Labor government has made commitments to significantly increase Australia's action on climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Yesterday's report was unequivocal in its warning that losses and damages are happening now to nature and people, as well as major sectors of the global economy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The constituency held by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice , who campaigns against policies to tackle climate change, has been ranked as the second most at risk from the impacts of global warming. The post Climate Denier Richard Tice’s Seat is Second Most Exposed to Global Warming, Says Insurance Giant appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who has called for climate policies to be scrapped, is building a new property in an area threatened by flooding due to global warming. Given the overwhelming evidence of human-induced climate change, there is an urgent need for people at all levels of society to respond accordingly.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar with her children Aralyn and Dale Jr.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The Arctic is warming faster than the rate of global average warming. Here are few examples of oil spills that illustrate the dangers of fossil fuels.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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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”. If you were worried about sea level rises, you’d be better investing the money in defences.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, polluters, and climate deniers from the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 campaign – 92 percent of its funding during this period. As reported by DeSmog, Farage’s coastal Clacton constituency is at risk of flooding and sea level rises as a result of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Together has also campaigned against Londons Ultra Low Emissions Zone scheme, and low traffic neighbourhood schemes across the country designed to combat air pollution. Farages own constituency of Clacton-on-Sea faces threats from flooding and sea level rises due to global warming.

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