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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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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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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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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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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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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.