The recent fires in Los Angeles and the global climate refugee crisis will have a significant impact on the global real estate industry. While the situation presents challenges, it also offers opportunities for development and the creation of a more inclusive and resilient environment. The adaptability of the global real estate industry and government policies to support climate refugees will be key to facing this new reality and ensuring a better future for all.
Achieving net zero is generally more complex and demands a higher level of commitment and innovation in technology and practices compared to achieving carbon neutrality. Both objectives are fundamental in the fight against climate change. Achieving carbon neutrality or net-zero status is crucial to reducing global warming and mitigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human societies.
The effects of climate change are expected to increase in intensity and frequency over the next 25 years unless strategic measures are taken to change the energy matrix, sustainable mobility, nature-based solutions, and reduction of high-risk areas, among other measures.
Water is an indispensable natural resource for the life of all living beings that inhabit the planet. However, water faces multiple challenges and threats that put its availability, quality, and access at risk for present and future generations. In this article, we will analyze the importance of water as a critical resource, especially for human consumption and agricultural production, within the framework of the triple environmental crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution.
Water, a vital resource for the population, agriculture, human and animal food, industry and energy generation, is the most consumed natural resource after oxygen. Without fresh water we would perish in a few days and our economic system would enter a crisis quickly, if not immediately. The new social crises and old migrations are mainly due to the lack of water resources.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, announced at the Climate COP in Baku on 13 November 2024, shows that 44 percent of reef building coral species globally are threatened with extinction. This was based on an assessment of the conservation status of 892 warm-water reef-building coral species. Climate change is the main threat, along with pollution, agricultural runoff, disease and unsustainable fishing.
The International Environment Forum is contributing to Global Climate Change Week by alerting its members to recent scientific studies that show how critical it is to make a rapid transformation in our global energy system away from fossil fuels.
Being in nature is good for our health and well-being. Recent research is showing what happens in our brains and bodies when we interact with nature, as described in Kathy Willis' new book Good Nature. There are benefits from what we see, smell, hear and touch.
