The Climate of Business #60: 1.5oC vs 2.0oC?
Lubomila Jordanova
CEO & Founder Plan A & Co-Founder Greentech Alliance │ Obama Leader │ MIT Under 35 Innovator │ LinkedIn Top Voice
Climate Change Reality
Scientists in Germany turn up heat on seagrass in climate change fight (Reuters)
Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket (AP News)
The Paris Agreement is working, for now (The Atlantic)
A new climate reality is taking shape as renewables become widespread (NPR)
?Who is driving Climate Change? (The New York Times)
Fed up young climate activists: ‘Adults aren’t listening’ (AP News)
Rising Caribbean sea pushes indigenous group off island (The Wall Street Journal)
Somalis are going hungry. The Government isn’t calling it a famine (The New York Times)
New bill in Maui will restrict outdoor lighting to protect birds (The Washington Post)
Climate change will force farmers to reshuffle what is grown where (The Economist)
Business Climate Reality
Big brands set to miss plastic sustainability targets (Euronews)
Serious concerns raised in NZ about environmental impact of major productions (The Guardian)
African insurers take up climate change fight with $14 bln pledge (Reuters)
Delay only makes climate action more urgent (Financial Times)
Qatar’s promise of ‘carbon-neutral’ World Cup raises doubts (AP News)
领英推荐
Checklist to tell if your portfolio is guilty of greenwashing (Bloomberg)
The climate power of rural women (GreenBiz)
UK to offer loans for countries most vulnerable to climate change effects (Reuters)
Travelling sustainably isn’t enough: Here’s why it’s time to give back to the places we visit (Euronews)
All-female African mine carves out sustainable future (Financial Times)
Reality Check
Given the discussion at COP27 is 1.5oC vs 2.0oC scenarios here are some useful resources to develop an opinion on the topic:
Sustainable finance
2 年Thx Lubomila Jordanova - great succinct roundup. We (IFOA) just published a paper on Tipping Points with the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, which reinforces the importance of 1.5 and the risks associated with overshoot - we should see 1.5 as similar to a ruin limit for our society: https://blog.actuaries.org.uk/blog/climate-emergency-tipping-odds-our-favour
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2 年Great information
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2 年Thank you for this wealth of content. I'll use it well.