Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events. How To Divest.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Have a tip or idea?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Makower: I can start to see how some of that connects — the space between the flowers, the idea of waging peace. McDonough: Last year, I opened the G20 in two tracks: climate and energy. There is only one question: How can I help you?". All of us help each other and get this done. I decided to build a solar-heated house.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Organisations may not feel equipped to deliver on net zero targets in the required timeframe; however, a collaborative approach can help track net-zero success. We can empower sustainable change through data, electrification, and digitisation, moving into the era of ' Electricity 4.0'. to deliver on net zero targets.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 10, 2023

More than ever, we need geographically wider, more diverse, and more inclusive content voices as we fight an ever-worsening climate crisis and an insatiable demand for animal protein. Article after article decries the death of the category, as swiftly as they welcomed the plant-based product boom a mere 24-36 months ago.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The island’s shrinking footprint prevents the village from building sufficient housing, causing dwellings threatened by an encroaching sea to become overcrowded. After decades of fighting for their sovereignty and survival, the community found a new friend. Fighting for Justice.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Investing in climate funds is great - But it's not the only way to add value European climate tech funds raised $2.6bn in 2021 - an amount double that of the year before. Among those that helped to derive that record figure were a range of corporations. British consumer goods multinational Reckitt Benckiser is one such example.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Glad to help promote it and connect it to the idea of “net positive advocacy” from my work with Paul Polman. The business world is increasingly and genuinely inspired by the idea of building more sustainable businesses. Lots of collaborating on this one!].

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

I’ll explore why reality makes me uncomfortable in another article coming soon. This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. Bring civil society into the decision making — ask NGOs who are critics to come in and help educate and solve problems (but avoid the cynics that just want to tear you down).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

4 ways businesses can connect with their communities to create a clean economy Marian Jones Fri, 11/06/2020 – 01:00 Companies often struggle with building community trust as they navigate between profit-making and authentically engaging on climate change and environmental justice matters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Imagine if we had 100 or 1,000 years to solve the climate crisis and other pressing environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges? degrees Celsius will require unprecedented transitions in all aspects of society over the next decade, states the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Building a tidal wave of change.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When there is change — that is, nearly always — people often imagine the worst possible outcomes and the most deplorable motives by those in power. People help bring one another down as they wallow in the fear and anger, and sap their own and each other’s energy. I’m impatient with those ‘fighting the good fight.’

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

By Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews This story was published in collaboration with ExxonKnews , a project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

It’s time to collaborate on climate and economic justice solutions. On top of that is the profound, existential threat of climate change. . Climate change impacts including extreme heat and flooding also disproportionately affect people of color. . Businesses can be growth engines for economic and climate justice.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

This article is a guide on how a general contracting business can become more environmentally friendly, offer eco-friendly options and reap the benefits of being a sustainable business. Now is the time for general contracting companies to make the necessary changes in order to keep up with the demands of the next generation of consumers.

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Construction Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

This article is a guide on how a general contracting business can become more environmentally friendly, offer eco-friendly options and reap the benefits of being a sustainable business. Now is the time for general contracting companies to make the necessary changes in order to keep up with the demands of the next generation of consumers.

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Construction Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 78

Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

but I haven’t posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. Climate Crisis : The climate will continue to change quickly and feature regular, extreme weather everywhere.

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Climate change Sea level rise Fossil fuels Technology 60

Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

but I haven't posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. That said, the other megatrends, especially climate change, could slow or change the outcomes here. Climate Crisis : The climate will continue to change quickly and feature regular, extreme weather everywhere.

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Climate change Sea level rise Fossil fuels Technology 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This latter story is what I’ll focus on here, but, oddly, these stories are all connected. They also have worked to undermine climate science , which is very much related to maintaining the power status quo. First, social norms are changing and expectations from employees, customers, and even investors are rising fast.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This latter story is what I’ll focus on here, but, oddly, these stories are all connected. They also have worked to undermine climate science , which is very much related to maintaining the power status quo. First, social norms are changing and expectations from employees, customers, and even investors are rising fast.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

As a New York City resident, director of an energy consulting organization, an advocate of energy equity and a third-generation resident of public housing, I have a unique view of the structural barriers we must break down to solve the global climate crisis. The worst part is that our country has had not one pandemic, but two rising.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

This system should extend the life cycle of assets by collecting waste for reuse and connecting participants across the network to those reused materials. For example, a digital ecosystem in this context might connect raw material to suppliers, refurbished assets to resellers and used parts to manufacturers. Shockingly, 2.2

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They worked their way up the Appalachian Mountains — helped by Indigenous peoples, whom they helped in turn. Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily.

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Biotechnology Agriculture Government Technology 142

AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

Using urban forestry to fight for environmental justice Breanna Draxler Tue, 03/30/2021 – 00:05 The term “urban forest” may sound like an oxymoron. In the absence of trees, these urban areas tend to be concrete — either buildings or sidewalks or streets. hold great value, in part because of their proximity to people.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ll be posting again soon, but wanted to publish this article that I forgot to post…It’s written with my Net Positive co-author Paul Polman as part of a special Harvard Business Review series on “Preparing for an Era of Uncertainty” Can’t imagine what they mean. A global pandemic changes everything.

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Resilience Organic Climate change Sustainability 78

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

” Makower: I can start to see how some of that connects — the space between the flowers, the idea of waging peace. McDonough: Last year, I opened the G20 in two tracks: climate and energy. There is only one question: How can I help you?” All of us help each other and get this done. Where did that take you?

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we present the case for business sustainability. Suddenly business sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. Great expanses of permafrost are projected to thaw, again accelerating the rate of climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

Most notable are our warming winters , which are melting wonderlands under the brunt of climate change. In this Green Business Bureau article, we address the focal environmental challenge for the ski industry, namely climate change. Climate change challenge: Thawing winters threaten the ski industry.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Impetus Digital, a recent feature in the PM360 Innovations Issue , helps strengthen the relationships among healthcare professionals, payers, and patients through quality communication and creative collaboration. Reducing the Global Carbon Footprint. Establishing Trust Through Sustainability.

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Carbon Earth Day Education Sustainability 147

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

With natural gas representing a major source of methane emissions, Doug Baer, PhD, Global Product Line Manager for Laser Analyzers at ABB, looks at the role that accurate gas leak measurement can play in helping to ensure that the pledge’s methane reduction targets are met. C limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s easy to think about the global climate crisis in the abstract. The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. In the U.S.,

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Climate change Medicine Health Fossil fuels 134

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. the next day, fundamentally changing the composition of the forests across the West.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

The overwhelming political consensus in support of the UK's world leading net zero targets suddenly looks to be more fragile than at any point in recent years, while the preparations for the critical COP26 Climate Summit are said to be subject to increasingly acrimonious turf wars within Whitehall. But such an effort has not materialised.

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Government Policy Politics Climate change 79

Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In recent years, UN climate summits have become a key fixture in the annual calendar for the CEOs of many large companies. The UN biodiversity summit convened every two years by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), on the other hand, has typically had little of the fanfare that accompanies global climate talks.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

(Another article from my column for MIT Sloan Management Review. This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Massive battery storage will help solve the problem but getting to total grid scale is some ways off.

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