DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2021

The ongoing tragedy, however, offers something of a preview of the future that environmentalists and human rights advocates fear for the low-lying country where 80 percent of the population lives below sea level and where seawalls are already struggling to hold back the ocean. Credit: Dan Sloan , CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The research looked to explore this and identified biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events as the most crucial topics to tackle in terms of overall impact, urgency, and geographical reach. The oceans can provide various ‘services’ to help tackle these issues, and fourteen solutions were evaluated.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Example: I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the report’s recommendation to fund state governments to pilot living shoreline projects in at-risk coastal counties is addressed in seven congressional bills. The report offers a gap analysis of how current U.S. congressional legislation aligns — and doesn’t — with Blue New Deal objectives.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With real collaboration and a healthy dose of courage, some gutsy decisions were made both in government and business. This is a threat we know will affect billions of people and displace hundreds of millions more through sea-level rise, desertification and other disastrous impacts by the time our children are grown.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A global energy company wanted to undertake a physical risk assessment to understand the firm’s potential exposure to climate hazards, such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and sea-level rise that could lead to supply chain disruptions and increased operating costs for the business.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose the very day of the summit to announce that his government will push off the deadlines for phase-outs of methane gas-burning boilers, as well as sales of new gasoline and diesel-fueled cars. The success of this case has inspired a wave of similar lawsuits in several other countries, many of them successful.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. This month, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

The new wall has been designed to maintain the sea views from the promenade and to account for the impacts of sea level rise and climate change by accommodating a further wall raising in 50 years’ time.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 24, 2021

The severity and quantity of storms is increasing year over year, and sea level rise and the loss of protective ecosystems is exacerbating the problem, making coastal communities particularly vulnerable to erosion and flooding from storm surges. Read more about Planet’s Disaster Data program. .

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

“We call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments are willing to fulfill their responsibilities in good faith,” they wrote. The researchers call it a “moratorium,” but perhaps it’s better described as a strike — a refusal to persist in basic scientific research until governments of the world get their act together.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question. All major governments worldwide have backed the IPCC's findings.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2020

New research highlights relationship between climate risk and sovereign risk, and outlines steps governments can take to avoid 'ever-worsening' spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt burdens. There is an urgent need to boost investment in climate adaptation and resilience.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The report is used by governments and industries everywhere to understand the threats ahead. The purpose of these reports is to provide everyone, particularly governing bodies, with the information they need to make important decisions regarding climate change. The IPCC doesn’t tell governments what to do. It’s a big deal.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

New study identifies 20 local authorities across England where thousands of properties could be lost to the sea by 2050. Nearly 200,000 English properties are at risk of being abandoned by the 2050s due to climate change-induced sea level rise, according to a major new study published today.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. Gore: Well, we are seeing a challenge to the efficacy of self-government. I don’t want to sound too highfalutin on this, but really here in the U.S.,

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Planet Pulse

MAY 6, 2021

The country’s location also makes it vulnerable to other natural disasters including frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions as well as tsunamis, sea-level rise, storm surges, landslides, flooding, and drought. Further, the data help its government formulate policies based on research studies using satellite data.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Coastal communities in Canada are experiencing the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, coastal erosion and more extreme storms, flooding and wildfires. These communities face.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

per cent relative to the climate hazards they face, which include flooding from heavy rain and rivers, coastal flooding, and sea level rise.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are proud to see that our data is empowering governments as they evaluate national climate risks; it’s providing the agricultural sector critical with insights into crop health; it’s revealing species dynamics in biodiverse ecosystems; and it’s informing the public on the global energy transition. SkySat image of Malé in the Maldives.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sea level rises expected this century.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

All the participants expressed both hope for making real progress on climate action, and concerns about commitment on the part of business, government, and citizens. . “It This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

But just days earlier, the topic generated extensive debate when Parmesan and her coauthors went over their findings with government representatives from around the world. Not to mention the possibility of losing entire nations and cultures to the sea, or the mass loss of human life from a world with more dangerous heat waves and storms.

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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. .”

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To stop ocean oil pollution from getting worse, Levine said policymakers should focus on reducing runoff from land-based sources like cars and roadways, in addition to shielding coastal fossil fuel infrastructure from hurricanes and sea-level rise.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. government to spend at least $100 million on a new solar geoengineering research program.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Climate campaigners have called on the UK government to step up its action ahead of the COP26 UN summit set to take place in Glasgow in November, which they say is in “serious jeopardy”. It will warn of a rise in heatwaves, destruction of 90 percent of global reefs, accelerated sea level rise and stronger hurricanes and typhoons.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2023

Developers of scalable finance and insurance products that can bolster the resilience of regions at risk from sea level rise invited to apply for slice of $500,000 fund

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Great Yarmouth MP has suggested that “we are heading towards the Stone Age in a desperate pursuit” of net zero, has advocated for a referendum on the 2050 target, and has urged the government to cut its “net zero nonsense”. The party’s former leader Richard Tice , who is now its chairman, is also a prominent climate science denier.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The IPCC report warned that governments must take urgent action to avoid "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society". A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise. The report warned that by 2030 we will will breech the upper threshold limit (1.5

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Arctic ice levels are both a primary indicator of rising global temperatures and a key determinant of how bad climate change might get. Serious ice loss means sea levels rise, more heat is absorbed by the ocean and planet, and weather and ocean currents could change. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2022

The government has today announced the launch of a new £36m programme to help coastal communities respond to escalating climate-related flood and erosion risks. As a minimum, we need to plan for at least a metre rise of sea level rise by the end of the century. hectares of seabed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sea level rises expected this century. Read the original: Be prepared: Energy, food and medicine at risk from rising seas, engineers warn.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contain the equivalent of 65 meters of sea-level rise, and the more they melt, the more they absorb sunlight, driving them to melt faster. National GDP numbers integrate a huge range of influences: government policy, technological innovation, recession and booms.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared to 1901-1971. The main driver of the global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s and the decrease in Arctic sea-ice is human behaviour. I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.”

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