Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. LSE research by Hamilton et al suggests that the health co-benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions could be worth $100 US per tonne of CO2 in high-income countries like the U.S. According to the U.K.’s

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first? But Exxon knew it back in ‘79.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

"By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Environment Agency has today published a sobering new report, warning the world is failing to adapt to escalating climate impacts, which are set to see sea levels rise by up 78cm by the 2080s at the same time as flood and drought risks soar. billion extra litres of water per day if no action is taken before 2050.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

. “When we talk about the blue economy, we’re talking about sectors that are sustainable and that maintain the health of the ocean that support our economies and communities, both human and wild,” said Helvarg. ” Can ocean and coastal health become part of a “new deal” — green, blue or any other hue?

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sea-level rise and storm surges alone could cost coastal cities USD 1 trillion each year by 2050, affecting more than 800 million people, the report estimated.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2024

The results confirmed that GBR- focused climate messages increase pro-climate personal behaviors such as personal energy usage—even among political conservatives. However, the GBR messages did not influence support for civic action such as advocating to elected officials. Messages that emphasized “collective efficacy”—e.g.,

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. With the minimum reached, the remaining sea ice that survives the year has had its birthday, aging one year.

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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. But we will fight this together.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Economic losses and damages are inevitable Loss and damage has been a hot topic for years in international climate negotiations, with last year's COP27 Conference seeing richer counties capitulate to calls from developing nations for a dedicated fund to help them cope with the impacts of climate-related floods, droughts, and sea level rise.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. Not planning for that could lead to poor health, tragedy, and intergenerational poverty.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to the report, other possible climatic effects of increased CO2 included the melting of the Antarctic ice-cap, sea-level rises, and warming of the oceans. It also emphasized that this increase in CO2 would likely affect the Earth’s climate, causing a parallel increase in average temperatures near the Earth’s surface.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2025

The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move "Everything is impossible to those who will not try," as Alexander the Great almost said. This is not a game.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

(check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up According to the ASI website, the Reform conference event, set to take place in Birmingham on Friday (20 September) will focus on how “burgeoning public health interventions” are allegedly restricting individual freedoms. “We

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Regan said in a statement: “At this moment, when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more disruptive, costing billions of dollars every year from floods, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise, and jeopardising the safety of millions of Americans, the Court’s ruling is disheartening.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It's race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It's race, class, money and politics.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Environment Agency last year upgraded Clacton’s flood defences as part of a £10 million project to protect more than 3,000 properties and businesses from “climate change and sea level rise”. which have attacked climate action as part of a broader “culture war” against progressive politics.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

We have seen sea-level rise threaten some islands in the Mediterranean like Djerba and Kerkennah in Tunisia. It’s not just an ecological or climate crisis, but also a food, energy, social, economic, political crisis that creates a kind of powder keg. LY: Let’s talk about the idea for the book.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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. He has previously held ministerial positions at the justice and health departments.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

… It’s race, class, money and politics. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. ” You’ve got to have ownership.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Tice dedicated much of his speech to what he called “the new cult of net zero” – one of three so-called “cults” he attacked, including immigration and the National Health Service. 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

APRIL 8, 2025

Lewis, the Conservative MP, sponsored a petition calling on Canada to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as its host, the United Nations. One of Trump’s first moves as president was to pull the US out of the WHO , citing “its inability to demonstrate independence from inappropriate political influence.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Over the past year “we’ve seen the local cancer that was the bad faith attacks on climate science now metastasize to infect our entire body politic,” Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann wrote via email. “As 6 insurrection, voting rights, etc. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young, mostly female activists that are fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. Read more » Women are at the Forefront of Historic Change in the US Women are claiming their rightful place in the halls of political power and they are changing the world in the process.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 11, 2022

Climate effects, including heat waves, wildfires, floods, droughts, and sea level rise, are creating a new phenomenon of climate migrants, and the US and other countries around the world are struggling […].

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change's causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what's to come if we don't reduce emissions at a quicker pace.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What do we protect? What do we make resilient? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The new CoastalDEM, machine-learning enabled predictions of extreme coastal water level risk exposures much higher. Legacy models showed 250 million people at risk by 2050. With CoastalDEM, a hundred million more people are at risk.

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