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Navigating the Rising Tide: The Convergence of Climate Change and Global Trade

3BL Media

Changing climate patterns and severe weather events are changing the game for global trade and logistics organizations. In 2019, flooding accrued a hefty price tag of $82 billion for global economies,” Enright notes, citing The Wall Street Journal. And there is potential for these costs to surge past $1.2

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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Biodiversity is also at risk along with public health and the psychological wellbeing of those affected by extreme weather events. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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Entergy Provides Update on Its Progress to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions

3BL Media

In response to the increased frequency in extreme weather events, we have broadened and updated our climate science-based analysis process. Your browser does not support the video tag. The report also discusses efforts to accelerate investments in power delivery system resilience. Distribution Settings Markup.

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The Current State of Play on Financing Loss and Damage

Chris Hall

trillion lost to disasters, the bulk of which are attributable to extreme weather events. Recent Oxfam research also found that funding appeals linked to extreme weather events are eight times higher than they were 20 years ago, and over the past five years, nearly half of all appeals have gone unmet.

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. It also buffers against increasingly extreme weather events, protecting land from drought, flooding and wind. The birdsong is unreal. And above it all, a stork wheels.

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Climate Change Preparedness Means Planning

3BL Media

By The Black & Veatch Insights Group The escalating frequency and strength of hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and environmental impacts offer tangible evidence that climate change is making severe weather events increasingly unpredictable and more costly. To learn more about this topic in a Black & Veatch eBook, click here.

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Trends & Opportunities with Standardizing ESG Disclosures in Real Estate

3BL Media

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) , launched in 2021 in the EU, is a non-financial reporting directive to introduce even more detailed reporting requirements for large companies, including an obligation for companies to digitally tag reported information.

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