Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2021

Our chamber has a long history of taking actions to fight climate change driven by carbon emissions in order to protect small businesses from sea level rise and severe weather, which are costly to individual businesses and the economy in general.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

“The opportunity to preserve the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in its present-day state has probably passed,” she concluded, “and policymakers should be prepared for several metres of sea level rise over the coming centuries.” He agrees that there are other important causes of current and future sea-level rise.

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Sea level rise Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 93

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Speaking on GB News in August 2021, Farage said that he was “very much an environmentalist” and that he couldn’t “abide things like plastics in our seas, pollution in our rivers.” Farage has himself denied established climate science.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In the war on plastic, Deogracias has covered Malawi’s production ban , now upheld by the country’s Court of Appeals; and S. Mathur highlighted the successes and future of The Ocean Clean-up , an ambitious project aimed at addressing the issue of plastic in our oceans.

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Sea level rise Plastics Pollution Climate change 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As he drove toward Barataria Bay, he saw in the distance what looked like black plastic garbage bags littering the road. Kevin Coleman was driving on a coastal road trying to reach his isolated fire station near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana. But as he drove closer his curiosity turned to horror.

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Politics Sea level rise Pollution Seafood 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Riders on numerous floats tossed plastic Mardi Gras beads made in China, stuffed animals, and other plastic trinkets. A float representing Shell’s Norco Manufacturing facility gave out plastic frisbees made in the United States that many along the parade route used as fans, as temperatures rose into the 80s. .

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Sea level rise Plastics 98

Defend Our Future

JUNE 8, 2023

How sea level rise not only threatens polar bears but also leads to entire communities seeking refuge from rising tides. How plastic waste not only kills turtles but can lead to life-threatening flash floods.

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Sea level rise Sustainability Plastics Resilience 52

Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

A new Impact League is set to run alongside the main sailing championship, with the eight international teams taking part in the competition scored across 10 key sustainability criteria, ranging from adoption of clean energy technologies and the elimination of single-use plastic, to diversity and inclusion and social advocacy, according to SailGP.

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Sustainability Sea level rise Plastics Climate change 48

Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. And as a growing number of companies commit to recycled plastics targets and circular plastics aspirations, there is an opportunity and necessity in partnering with these communities.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sustainability 59

Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Four key climate change indicators - greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification - all set new records in 2021.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

AGreenLiving

MAY 19, 2020

To address ocean waste, the designers have proposed using submarine robots to collect plastic ocean debris and repurposing the waste as raw material for 3D printing construction materials. The islands are also punctuated by bubble-like structures that house seawater purification and freshwater storage systems.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years. “It’s triage at this point,” Helvarg explained. ” Given U.S.

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Sustainability Seafood Sea level rise Policy 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As of April 2022 , scientists have concluded that humanity has exceeded the safe operating space of biosphere integrity, freshwater change, novel entities (specifically plastic and microplastic), and biogeochemical flows.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, were not considered in the report although they are a major contributor to ocean pollution.) In most cases, the oil is transported by water — it mixes with stormwater drainage systems, streams, rivers, lakes, and groundwater reservoirs and ultimately gets carried to the sea.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Sea level rise Stormwater 145

Grist

APRIL 5, 2020

“We’re beginning to appreciate the value of what we’re losing and not just in terms of intrinsic beauty of the wildlife but in terms of protecting our livelihoods and societies from bad things happening, whether that be poor water quality in rivers and oceans or sea-level rise beating on the doorstep of coastal areas,” said Roberts.

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Sea level rise Pollution Asia Sustainability 144

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Huge Win in Court Against Formosa Plastics’ Giant Petrochemical Complex. In September a Louisiana judge delivered a big win for community and environmental groups fighting a proposed massive petrochemical complex by Formosa Plastics. The polluting project, announced in 2018, would be sited in St. billion chemicals facility.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Law 88

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Speaking on GB News in August 2021, Farage said that he was “very much an environmentalist” and that he couldn’t “abide things like plastics in our seas, pollution in our rivers.” Farage has himself denied established climate science.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Global warming 128

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It taught Esso and other Standard Oil companies how to sell derivative products (like plastic and pesticides) that made the company and the brand a household name in the minds of the public. The campaign ran for 17 years in the 1940s and 1950s, at the time an unheard length of time for an ad campaign. In its day, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!”

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Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In June 2022, Clarke delivered a speech during a House of Commons debate saying that a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was “really devastating”, noting the threats of sea level rise and biodiversity loss if global temperatures aren’t limited.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

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.

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Sustainability Sea level rise Climate change Plastics 60

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Building new facilities to produce plastics and petrochemicals is expected to add millions of tons of greenhouse gases and millions of pounds of toxic materials to the environment every year. That table which community members have been offered a seat at could soon be underwater, as sea level rise continues to quicken with a warming planet.

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