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Republished From TriplePundit By Leon Kaye New York City was proactive on tackling climate change risks long before Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc across the boroughs in autumn 2012. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his successor, Bill De Blasio, have shown leadership on climate change resilience that inspired other cities to launch

Republished From Yale Environment 360 By Bill McKibben It feels as if we may be getting close, or at least closer, as a nation to putting some kind of price on global warming pollution. Bernie Sanders campaigned all year on a straight-up carbon tax, and though

Republished From Mother Jones By KANYAKRIT VONGKIATKAJORN   Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill calling for a massive reduction in carbon pollution. California governor Jerry Brown signed historic legislation Thursday, establishing one of the most ambitious carbon reduction goals in the world. The bill, SB 32, has

Republished From New York Magazine By Andrew Rice Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition. Klaus Jacob, a German professor affiliated with Columbia’s University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a geophysicist by

Republished From The Guardian By Adam Vaughan Experts warn there may be no unspoilt places left within a century as report shows an area twice the size of Alaska has been lost since 1993 Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last