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Florida is a Climate-Denying Hellscape

Legal Planet

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. Research by the Emmett Institute shows that Florida leads the way when it comes to real estate risk disclosures about sea level rise.

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No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat

Union of Concerned Scientists

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” Coastal residents can see in the UCS report, Underwater , how sea level rise will impact real estate in every coastal zip code and congressional district.

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Biden-Harris’s Bank Shot: Financial Institutions, Climate Change and the Coming Regulatory Revolution (Part 1)

Arnold Porter

For example, Bank of America announced last week its plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its financing, operations, and supply chain by 2050, and net zero GHG emissions in its own operations by 2030.[[N:Bank Or, a bank's collateral in agricultural loans may be wiped out after a sustained drought.