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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. C of warming.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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Climate change set to devastate regional fisheries and cause reef tourism revenue losses of over 90%

Envirotec Magazine

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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World Economic Forum: “Investing less than 1% of world GDP into nature-based solutions can tackle climate change and biodiversity crisis”

Envirotec Magazine

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. While investments in nature-based solutions cannot be a substitute for deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy, they can contribute to the required pace and scale of climate change mitigation and adaptation, concludes the report.

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The road to nowhere? World Road Congress highlights conflicting challenges and an uncertain route to the future

Envirotec Magazine

The impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, a weak global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses and hindered progress towards the Goals. The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three.

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Trade group reiterates the environmental and economic value of biogas to new ministers

Envirotec Magazine

Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. The industry can also help reduce the carbon footprint of hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as heat, transport, waste management and agriculture.

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Up-scaling CO2 capture

Envirotec Magazine

Hailed as a milestone in the fight against climate change, it sets out plans to build a plant capable of removing 4000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. Through continued up-scaling of these technologies a climate disaster can be avoided while at the same time establishing a new industrial pillar for the global economy.