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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

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Montrose CEO participates in Milken Institute Panel on Investing in Climate Action

Montrose

Fortunately, the marketplace for climate-related investing, research, and economic collaboration is thriving as government, the private sector, and environmental organizations develop a shared vision to address water scarcity, rising sea levels, increasingly violent natural disasters, and other results of a warming planet.

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How Tackling Ghost Gear Can Help Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

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. It is no longer a question of if climate change will happen, but instead, to what degree and how we will respond. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Observations from COP28 on the Loss and Damage Fund

Law Columbia

For developing countries and small island states, the consequences of stronger storms, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and other climate-related phenomena will be difficult to endure, and the countries who will likely suffer the most are often the least responsible for climate change.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Flooding on the banks of Rio Negro in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil, 2021. Is this logic suitable for addressing shared environmental challenges that instead require cross-border cooperation, long-term thinking, and respect and recognition for humans and nature?

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

by developing VMT-based thresholds for significance or by creating VMT mitigation banks to offset VMT increases from new development). While many of the revisions are effective immediately, the new VMT methodology will not be mandatory until July 1, 2020 to give agencies time to prepare for the new analysis (e.g.,

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 PaEN] -- Dec. 1 Webinar: Discussion Of Proposals To Use Part Of PA’s $7 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding For Conservation. 7 - Streambank Stabilization For Residential Landowners.