Sovereign Wealth Funds are pouring cash into clean tech investments, in a move which could provide the funding needed to accelerate the development of green technologies to combat climate change.
The agency (“FEMA”) wants to raise the threshold for declaring a major disaster, according to a plan published Monday in the Federal Register. The change would impact money allocated under FEMA’s public assistance program, which provides grants to state and local governments after a presidential declaration of an emergency or major disaster. The money can be used for things like debris cleanup, or repairing roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
The evidence of climate change — from global temperature records to Arctic ice melt, wildfires, hurricanes and flooding — is accelerating. So is investment pressure on corporations.
By the end of this century, extreme coastal floods that have only occurred once every 100 years in the area surrounding Jamaica Bay in New York may be as common as once every year by the end of this century due to climate change.
Climate models use complex equations, mountains of data and supercomputers to help us understand global warming and future changes on planet Earth.
Record wildfires. A deadly hurricane season. Arctic sea ice at its lowest ever. Drought. Floods. Heatwaves.
The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) annual climate report, released on Wednesday, reads like a long list of extreme weather and natural disasters. But it may well be a preview of things to come.
Homeless populations across the U.S. will grow as more natural disasters strike.