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The Palisades Fire is the first big test for California's new home insurance scheme

Corporate Knights

Over the past five years, California has become a poster child for what climate-fueled weather disasters can do to a states home insurance market. RELATED What 2024s costly climate disasters mean for home insurance rates in 2025 Where old-growth forests are clear-cut, theres fire Is the insurance industry walking away from fossil fuels?

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Unique field study shows how climate change affects fire-impacted forests

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

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IOC Welcomes Admission As Observer Organisation to UN Climate Change

3BL Media

International Olympic Committee news This will enable the IOC to engage more effectively with the global efforts to address climate change, underscoring its commitment to reducing emissions and to leveraging the role of sport as an “important enabler” for the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “We

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Headlines of the Future: The Future of Agriculture and Climate Change

3BL Media

In the third episode Jess and Klaus dive deep into their findings on the real effects on climate change and how it is altering the world we live in. DESCRIPTION: All around the world, we see and feel the effects of climate change on our lives. So, how can we address climate change and take action that makes an impact?

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change.

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Packaging Waste and the Need for Sustainable Improvement

3BL Media

1 Since 2018, the earth has consumed over half a trillion metric tons of materials, which is “nearly as much as the entire 20th century combined”. The second system is built environment, which is responsible for 40% of global GHG emissions, one-quarter of land system change and contributes to water stress.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.