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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Cape Cod

October 17, 2021

The Cape Cod Commission released a report, The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Cape Cod, that assesses the impacts climate change is likely to have on Cape Cod’s economy, revenues,…

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Climate Crisis: 233 Medical Journals Call for “Emergency Action”

October 10, 2021

Something amazing happened on September. 14, 2021. The editors of 233 medical journals around the world all published the same editorial: “Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases,…

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Greta Thunberg Calls Leaders Out on Climate Statements: “Blah, blah, blah”

October 4, 2021

Greta Thunberg addressed Italy’s Youth4Climate summit recently, saying failed leadership had resulted in 30 years of “empty words and promises” that amounted to a generational “betrayal.” “Our hopes and dreams…

Conservation & Land Use, News

Coastal Marsh Restoration Seen as Potent Weapon Against Climate Impacts

September 27, 2021

Federal scientists are studying whether heat-trapping carbon dioxide can be sucked out of the atmosphere and sequestered in restored salt marshes, sea grass beds and mangrove swamps. And those wetlands…

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Woodwell Center Announces Important New Series: Beyond 1.5

September 20, 2021

As the latest IPCC report made abundantly clear, human activities to date have kicked off unprecedented global warming and committed us to passing the 1.5°C mark early next decade. We…

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Our Forests Can Slow Climate Change. A New Report Shows Exactly How Much

September 16, 2021

Each year, nearly 1 million acres of forest across the continental U.S. are lost to development and other uses; Massachusetts alone loses an average of 5,000 acres of forest annually.…

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Vineyard & Nantucket Facing Serious Climate Impacts: New “State of our Coast” Report

August 23, 2021

Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental reportwarns. The “State of the Coast”…

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IPCC Issues Sixth Assessment Report Warning of Unavoidable Dangers

August 19, 2021

The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM), which emphasized the dangers of climate change, and that many of the risks associated with climate change are now unavoidable. The…

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2020 Survey on Cape & Vineyard Energy & Climate Activities

July 20, 2021

In December 2020, as part of the meeting of the Energy Committees of the Cape & Islands, the Cape Light Compact conducted a survey of town Energy Committees and other…

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Trees As Infrastructure

July 5, 2021

An open source model to support municipalities in transitioning toward resilient urban forest management practices, and a proposition for supporting cities to transition towards green infrastructures. Read the report here

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National Academies of Science Maps the Road to Net Zero

February 8, 2021

Most of the technology required to fully decarbonize the US economy already exists, and those technologies are now more cost-effective than technologies relying on fossil fuels, according to a report from the…

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Biden Administration to Restart Permitting for Vineyard Wind Project

February 8, 2021

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced that it will restart permitting for Vineyard Wind, set to become the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, reversing a Trump…

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