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Montrose CEO participates in Milken Institute Panel on Investing in Climate Action

Montrose

Fortunately, the marketplace for climate-related investing, research, and economic collaboration is thriving as government, the private sector, and environmental organizations develop a shared vision to address water scarcity, rising sea levels, increasingly violent natural disasters, and other results of a warming planet.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

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Europe’s top eleven nature hotspots

A Greener Life

The island recently signed up in support of the UN’s sustainable development goals. Towering just over 3,350 metres above sea level, Mount Etna is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe. Researchers have been looking at using the ash from volcanic eruptions as a sustainable building material.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. These climate-fueled disasters are undermining economic development and hard-won gains in public health and poverty eradication. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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How Tackling Ghost Gear Can Help Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

Now, as I am preparing for the Our Ocean Conference in Palau—one of the small island states being heavily affected by rising sea levels—those thoughts remain at the forefront of my mind. It is no longer a question of if climate change will happen, but instead, to what degree and how we will respond. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Rachel Schattman – Sustainable management & community engagement are the keys

Frontiers

In this blog post, we will discuss accessibility to clean water and sanitation as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 through the lens of Rachel’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change. However, I do not believe it is too late to address these large issues.