Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

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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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

His research examines how digital technologies are ushering in a new form of environmental governance within food systems, specifically as it relates to sustainability assurance within aquaculture. Then the initiatives establish sustainability objectives, which are programmed into the technologies. I spoke with Sake Kruk who’s a Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

But despite all of this, I’m actually less concerned about backlash now than I was ten years ago – the reason is the remarkable drop in cost over that decade for the technologies we need to decarbonize our economy , such as renewable electricity generation, and electric vehicles. Those kinds of impacts could provoke real political backlash.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2023

FloodVision™ is a technology from Climate Central that provides precise elevation measurements and photorealistic visualizations of potential future flooding.

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Law and Environment

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Flooding/Sea Level Rise/Storm Surge: Water can physically damage and corrode infrastructure, particularly distribution poles and substations. Wildfires: Fires can damage lines and poles , decreasing capacity of the lines or shutting them down. Increasing resilience is another important (and often related!)

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Read the full story from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marsh plants can play a major role in mitigating coastal damage as sea levels rise and storm surges increase. A new study provides greater detail about how these protective benefits work under real-world conditions shaped by waves and currents.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We learned the great lengths that oil companies had gone to protect their own investments—even redesigning their offshore oil platforms to guard against sea level rise—while thwarting efforts by others to protect themselves. It’s not unusual for legal complaints to cite news stories in the fine-print citations.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

About four-fifths of the Dutch port is below sea level, but a blue-green roofing grid and other smart city technology might help keep Rotterdam flood proof. Read the full story at Corporate Knights.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. “We Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

In scenario analysis, financial institutions and their regulators assess risk by modeling various possible economic scenarios (representing combinations of policy and technology outcomes, for example) and how their assets would perform under those scenarios.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Moreover, despite a steady growth in total factor productivity (TFP, “a ratio of agricultural outputs produced to inputs used“) since 1948 as a result of technological change, climate change has already dampened TFP, and it is expected to decline to pre-1980 levels by 2050 unless adaptation measures adequately respond.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Warmer temperatures will encourage the melting of glaciers, ice fields, summer Arctic sea ice, and permafrost, some of which may be irreversible. Sea levels will continue to rise throughout the 21st century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-lying areas along coasts around the world.

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

The melting of land ice is one of the principal drivers of sea level rise, threatening coastal and low-lying communities around the globe. Airborne radar has its limitations, however, being both resource-intensive and able to provide only a snapshot of ice conditions at the time of the flight. Low-energy monitoring.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

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. Another way GGGI is helping address gear loss is through the incorporation of better tracking mechanisms and conducting gear technology trials.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Without steep cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the report reminds us, the world will warm by over 2 °C this century – triggering more frequent heat waves, greater flooding, higher sea levels and more extreme heavy rainfall and droughts.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

People’s health, lives and livelihoods, as well as property and critical infrastructure, are being increasingly adversely affected by hazards from heatwaves, storms, drought and flooding as well as slow-onset changes such as sea-level rise.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And of course, economic, when there are economic crises or technological disruption. So technology enables mobility in multiple ways. And supply chain of that, because you obviously have a lot of waste that’s generated that you don’t want to be dumping back into the sea. In a big way. But this is localized.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing the challenges that forever chemicals pose will require additional funding to employ the necessary technology and water infrastructure designed specifically for this purpose. The regulatory impact of PFAS on otherwise closed sites is also a challenge for the regulated community, including real estate owners and operators.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

These are the world’s biggest economies, many of them home to the finance and technologies needed to tackle the climate crisis. In addition, finance for loss and damage caused by irreversible impacts, such as sea-level rise and salination of groundwater, is going to be a big theme going forward.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level. They include a 2.5

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We look at rising sea levels, forced migration, resource scarcity, natural disasters, escalating tensions in volatile regions, and the increasing need for humanitarian aid. It requires innovation, fresh ideas and the furthering of science and technology. “Climate change also plays a role in increasing global instability.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

García grew up in Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá, more than 2500 m above sea level in the Andes. Her motivation is her lifelong drive to understand the universe, which began in childhood with a quirky choice of bedroom decoration. Challenging the status quo.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. Green shipping corridors are maritime routes between one or more ports that enable the testing and uptake of zero-emission lifecycle fuels and technologies. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One reason is a change in technology for generating power; newer recirculating technology withdrawals less water overall but results in higher rates of evaporation. The data also show that the amount of water consumptively used is projected to remain relatively constant. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Inland flooding and coastal sea level rise will result. Water levels on the 56-mile coastline along the Delaware estuary are expected to rise 2.1 Other reports looking at past precipitation trends found a 71 percent increase in very heavy precipitation events in the last 54 years in Pennsylvania. Read more here.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mars is much more distant than the Moon so the technologies involved are quite different. m above sea level and I suffered from severe altitude sickness. Planetary science is thriving in China and the number of planetary scientists has increased exponentially over the past decade. For instance, we can use a 50?m

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

The Cray-1, designed by Seymour Roger Cray, was tested at Los Alamos (perhaps a mistake given that its high altitude, 2300 m above sea level, makes it even more vulnerable to cosmic rays). In the next few years, the challenge is to further improve the resilience of our current supercomputer technologies.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2024

The interplay between UNCLOS and other rules of international law Adopted in 1982, UNCLOS does not refer to global warming, climate change, GHG emissions, ocean acidification, or sea level rise. The overall goal is to provide “adequate scientific and technological knowledge to developing States” (para 332).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

As Associate Director for the Natural Hazards Mission Area since 2011, he is responsible for USGS’s geologic hazard programs, including coordination of the bureau’s hazard response activities, as well as the bureau’s coastal and marine program, which plays a critical role in analyzing the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

For example, Miami’s Afro-Caribbean communities living on desirable, higher ground could be displaced into lower-lying areas vulnerable to rising sea levels or storms as their neighborhoods are replaced by new commercial and residential developments. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It reminds us that the obstacles to climate action are neither physical nor technological. Sea-level rise for decades after net zero is an example we must plan for, but there may be others that require further analysis. At this point, they remain political. By urgently cutting emissions we can prevent future risks.”

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This production process emits significant air and water pollution with severe health consequences for neighboring communities already bearing the brunt of climate change impacts like sea level rise, severe storms and flooding. . Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Is it too late or do we still have room to tackle these issues based on implementation of advanced research, technology, policies, etc.? “At In Maine, where I live and work, the state has made a range of community grants available for towns and cities to address challenges like rising sea levels.

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