Christopher Kemper

MARCH 29, 2020

The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain. This is not good for the policies and public opinion regarding climate change?—?people educational books, film production and charitable activities?—?to It’s the correlation that concerns me.

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Christopher Kemper

MARCH 29, 2020

The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain. This is not good for the policies and public opinion regarding climate change?—?people educational books, film production and charitable activities?—?to It’s the correlation that concerns me.

Climate change 52

Climate change Education Sustainability Health 52

Christopher Kemper

MARCH 29, 2020

The big problem in this logic is simple: the general public is incorrectly linking economic loss with climate change gain. This is not good for the policies and public opinion regarding climate change?—?people educational books, film production and charitable activities?—?to It’s the correlation that concerns me.

Climate change 52

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The debates over the Dasgupta Review are understandable, but it could provide the foundations for a much needed overhaul of our understanding of both economics and the natural world. I have found a flaw," he said, in reference to his laissez faire economic philosophy and favouring of gossamer-touch regulation. "I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In the UK, the top 10 percent by income have carbon footprints 15 times those of the poorest 10 percent, with transport — mostly cars and flights — and consumer products such as electronics and furniture the biggest differentiators. On Monday, three apparently unconnected things happened. An advert produced by Badvertising.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

Benoit Allehaut: I was avoiding military service — in France it was mandatory at the time, and the only way you could avoid it was to either work for an administration abroad or a company abroad. Moldova is the most economically challenged country in Europe. portfolio without relying on merchant risk.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yes, cynics will note that the Conservative Party has promised to 'go green' plenty of times in the past with mixed results. But this time does feel difference. He offered an unequivocal message that the net zero transition is the guiding light for his long term economic and industrial policy. This matters enormously.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

RESTORD is based on asking what will good look like through imagining a city in the future that applied all the thinking from RESTORE , not as isolated technical or sustainability aspects, but at a system thinking, holistic level, where the synergy of the parts leads to something wonderful and beautiful, embracing complexity, at the edge of chaos.

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Low Impact

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems pretty obvious that there’s a giant economic slump on the way that’s going to sweep away millions of small and medium-sized businesses around the world, so that Amazon can step in to continue to try to take over the entire global economy. I’ll explain that now. Continuous clearing.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

But despite the photos of packed high streets it is hard to shake the notion that the coronavirus crisis has fundamentally reshaped shopping habits for the long-term. In short, it concludes e-commerce is beneficial for the retail sector in the five European countries surveyed, both from an economic and environmental standpoint.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The tribe sought the land for economic development, but it is “unhealthy,” Silliboy said. The pair was hardly dressed like typical farmers, but this was no typical farm. It was a warm September day in Limestone, a small town on the edge of the Maine-Canada border, and the pair struggled to breathe in the head-to-toe protective gear.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

Within months, Thunberg urged immediate action from business leaders at the World Economic Forum and the told the UN’s Secretary General and others at the global climate summit in Poland that they are “stealing [childrens’] future in front of their very eyes.” It’s hard to predict. Unfortunately, they're right.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grandparents are notoriously difficult to buy for, but keep in mind that many of our loved ones enjoy useful household goods and homemade goodies. As a bonus, these ideas are even good for the Earth! All books and catalogs are printed on chlorine-free recycled paper , using soy-based inks whenever possible.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

This stance marks a distinct shift from 2016, when she praised the Paris Agreement, telling MPs of the threat climate change poses to the environment and “economic prosperity”. Braverman chaired the European Research Group of MPs supporting a “hard Brexit” after Baker, and before Jacob Rees-Mogg, in 2018. Kemi Badenoch.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect one". Why is the concept of net zero emissions under fire just as it emerges as the "North Star" for economic and industrial strategy in many of the world's most powerful economies? Putting net zero targets onto statute books has real legal and institutional value.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

This time last year we were congratulating the government for setting its new net zero target and telling them to go away and deliver it," he continued. "12 This time last year we were congratulating the government for setting its new net zero target and telling them to go away and deliver it," he continued. "12 He isn't wrong.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is the second in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. You could have got a job in the city, and made loads of money.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the end of the year, Time Magazine named 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as their youngest “Person of the Year” ever. It’s hard to say, but this year we did get some high-quality doom. We also saw more data on the economic costs of a changing climate. The climate protest movement explodes. degrees Celsius.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. These ideas have been promoted for decades by a very well-funded and wildly successful effort — with the Koch brothers at the core — to make the free-market, shareholder-primacy, neoliberal philosophy the dominant global economic model.

Fossil fuels 60

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. These ideas have been promoted for decades by a very well-funded and wildly successful effort — with the Koch brothers at the core — to make the free-market, shareholder-primacy, neoliberal philosophy the dominant global economic model.

Fossil fuels 60

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

It was worked through with World Bank modellers in 2019 to develop emissions and economic scenarios and stress test targets. As such it represents a new tranche of economic strategies that hundreds of smaller countries are currently pulling together. Jamaica's plan was not a back-of-fag-packet piece of work. Criteria were limited.

Fossil fuels 84

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

But at the same time, there are still many fence-sitters. And on the specific issue of carbon footprint, the rapid and dramatic improvement in the economics of clean technology means companies can reduce their emissions and energy use, and make money doing it. Well, it’s good for business. It’s a good question.

Sustainability 60

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

On July 19th, the day the temperature in London passed 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in history, the Daily Mail, a leading British tabloid, published an editorial titled “Why can’t the Met Office just tell us the weather, instead of spreading alarm and scolding us with doom-laden lectures?” I'd never heard of him, though.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

When we talk about economic recovery we are talking about net zero transition," Jones said. When we talk about economic recovery we are talking about net zero transition," Jones said. As things currently stand, the UK is on track to miss all its targets.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The implications that flow from the upgrading of the UK's 2030 carbon target are hard to underestimate - the economy is about to change for the better. The change in timing may have been modest - the full report on the CCC's recommendations for the sixth carbon budget is expected next week - but it was still significant.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

I’d like to introduce Will Ruddick, who set up the Grassroots Economics Foundation in Kenya around ten years ago, that runs a very successful mutual credit network (called the Sarafu Network) there. So in some senses, Sarafu will be considered an iou, which can be paid in cash or goods / services. Hello Will. Is that right?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

Resilience 68

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This model gives the structure organizations need to meet the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic demands of Business. . The CSR pyramid: Economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibility . In Carroll’s pyramid, a business has four types of responsibilities, which are as follows: To be economically profitable, .

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This model gives the structure organizations need to meet the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic demands of Business. . The CSR pyramid: Economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibility . In Carroll’s pyramid, a business has four types of responsibilities, which are as follows: To be economically profitable, .

Ethics 148

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

Getting back to OPD, it would be easier to envisage a healthy internal economy within OPD, when there are 10 times as many people doing it. But if you’re producing honey, and charging £6.50 The same is true of other things. We have this discussion a lot. You know I’m working to help build a mutual credit trading network for the UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Or, amid pressure to tighten fiscal belts and avoid rocking the boat on difficult taxation decisions in the midst of a crippling recession would the Chancellor opt for a 'steady as she goes' economic programme that offers a few green sops, but broadly fails to fully grasp the scale of the net zero opportunity?

Building Energy Monitoring 58

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 58

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

” At Dartmouth, 1972 I was doing photography and I got to work with Walker Evans — who is, I think, one of the greatest photographers of all time. Evans, you are the greatest black-and-white photographer of all time. The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Are you excited to be 70? And I said, “Mr.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

These are brands that use business as a force for good, to make a positive difference that supports the environment and communities. See why green business is good business. The B Economy The B Economy describes the economic system in which Business is used as a force for good.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

He’s also spent a lot of his time on healthcare in the States. Sam Kass has had a varied career, starting out life as a chef, working for the Obamas before Barack’s presidency, later advising President Obama on nutrition policy when they moved into the White House, and launching the Let’s Move! campaign with Michelle Obama.

Agriculture 52

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

He’s also spent a lot of his time on healthcare in the States. Sam Kass has had a varied career, starting out life as a chef, working for the Obamas before Barack’s presidency, later advising President Obama on nutrition policy when they moved into the White House, and launching the Let’s Move! campaign with Michelle Obama.

Agriculture 52

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

His speech to the Financial Times' Moral Money event yesterday was essentially a financiers' reworking of the 'let's just adapt' to climate change argument from the likes of Bjorn Lomborg and Matt Ridley have been pedalling for over a decade. Or, to put it another way, to give the whole thing a right good fisking.

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