by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 9, 2020 | News
The successful and popular Net Zero 2020 Conference held on October 23 still has people in the Cape & Islands region – and beyond – talking. The ideas presented for working to solve the climate crisis while simultaneously rebuilding a sustainable...
by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 5, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
Project Drawdown, the leading resource for climate solutions, has created a new research arm. Drawdown Labs will be a testing ground for how the private sector can go beyond ‘net zero’ to help the world achieve Drawdown quickly, safely and equitably. Led by a...
by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 1, 2020 | News, News
Harvard Magazine reports this month on the frightening likelihood of a large-scale humanitarian crisis as famine-induced populations are forced to migrate away from the earth’s equitorial regions as they become uninhabitable. The coming climate refugee crisis...
by CommunicationsTeam | Oct 20, 2020 | News, News
From Yale Environment 360 comes an inspiring vision of how we might address the climate crisis while providing opportunities for youth at the same time. Noting that the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps put thousands of young men to work in U.S. parks and...
by Janet Williams | Oct 16, 2020 | News
On September 14, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative formally adopted Energy Justice: A Position Statement. The statement is th result of months of research, consultation and collaborative among the Collaborative members. The...
by ccccc | Oct 4, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September. This year it measures just 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) – the second-lowest value in the 42 years since satellites began taking measurements. The...
by ccccc | Oct 4, 2020 | News
This year’s edition of Climate Week, the annual carbon-cutting confab in New York City, where governments and companies announce their green ambitions, seemed to reflect a new sense of urgency to address a warming planet. Some of the pledges announced at climate...
by ccccc | Oct 4, 2020 | News, News
Reported by Yale Environment 360:Insurance is getting harder for some U.S. homeowners to obtain as a result of the impacts of climate change, according to reporting from The Huffington Post and Marketplace. Many insurance companies are choosing not to renew homeowner...
by CommunicationsTeam | Oct 1, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
Yale Environment 360 reports on a new study published in the journal Science that concludes that marine heatwaves have become more than 20 times more frequent over the past 40 years due to human activity and the burning of greenhouse gases. The new research is the...
by Janet Williams | Sep 29, 2020 | News
E&E News reports on three studies released last week on plans for reaching net zero emission and the conclusion is that the math doesn’t add up. The reports, produced by Oil Change International and by consultants at Deloitte and EcoAct, find that many of...
by Janet Williams | Sep 29, 2020 | News
This is how a long article in the New York Times begins. America is now under siege by climate change in ways that scientists have warned about for years. But there is a second part to their admonition: Decades of growing crisis are already locked into the global...
by ccccc | Sep 13, 2020 | Climate Reports, News
Efficient and climate friendly cooling is a crucial piece of the climate and sustainable development puzzle. We need cooling to protect vulnerable populations from heatwaves, keep vaccines viable and food fresh, and workforces productive. It is essential for equity...
by ccccc | Sep 13, 2020 | News, News
Looking for a shot of positive thinking and hope for the future? Vox’s Ezra Klein sat down for a conversation with Saul Griffith, who knows the US energy system better than just about anyone on this planet. He’s an inventor, a MacArthur genius fellow, and the...
by Janet Williams | Sep 13, 2020 | News, News
Dave Roberts at Vox has put together a fascinating – and very useful – set of charts (borrowed, he notes, from Morgan Stanley) that present different ways of looking at and thinking about the climate crisis, depending on what question you are asking at...
by ccccc | Sep 11, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently released a major new report: “Managing Climate Risk in the US Financial System.” The report presents 53 specific recommendations to mitigate the risks to financial markets posed by climate change. It concludes...
