GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But only about a quarter of them actually made any sustainable changes to their lifestyle or consumption. There’s this really marked intention-action gap when we’re asking people to change their behaviors to be more sustainable," said Katherine White, professor of marketing and behavioral science at the University of British Columbia.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to our latest polling of Americans in May, 43 percent of us are more concerned about climate change, 41 percent of us are more concerned about plastics in the ocean and 39 percent of us are more concerned about deforestation and environmental destruction than we were a year ago. Marketing & Communication. Pull Quote.

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Terra Infirma

APRIL 4, 2024

This small book demonstrated exactly how to communicate Sustainability – and how not to. As we proceeded on the walk, I realised the book also contained the ‘right’ way of communicating Sustainability. ” This approach worked because it is weaving the climate message into the walk description, not imposing on it.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A research study led by University of Oklahoma assistant professor Chenghao Wang and published in the journal Nature Communications tackled the critical issue of how city-scale building energy consumption in urban environments will evolve under the influence of climate change.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Composed of previous WSLA award recipients (there are 87 honorees), the alumnae group’s membership includes the most dedicated sustainability professionals in the field who have made significant positive changes to the planet, demonstrating bravery in the workplace and mentoring the next group of female leaders.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

4 ways businesses can connect with their communities to create a clean economy. Companies often struggle with building community trust as they navigate between profit-making and authentically engaging on climate change and environmental justice matters. UPROSE is Brooklyn's foremost Latinx community organization.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When: November 23 at 11am PT/ 2pm ET You’re invited to join a webinar co-hosted by Clean Energy Canada, the Canadian Climate Institute, Efficiency Canada, and Re.Climate exploring how clean energy makes life more affordable—and how to share this message with Canadians.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. trillion on public relations, advertising and communications, according to Clean Creatives.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050. However, this may prove risky because forests and soils are also threatened by a range of impacts, such as fire, disease, changes in farming practices or deforestation.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

As corporations of all sizes increase sustainability commitments and take decisive action on climate change, some companies have begun engaging their employees in corporate-sponsored sustainability initiatives. The Next Frontier: Engaging Employees In Sustainability. Date/Time: April 27, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Measuring results.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — which is, in fact, the UN body responsible for communicating on the deteriorating climate — officially recognized the oceans as a critical component in the climate change crisis.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

So it might come as a surprise that Robinson’s next move was a climate change PSA. Playing a TV host named Ted Rack, he invites a climate scientist on his show “You Expect Me to Believe That?” At the same time, though, Swain thinks a lot of climate scientists really could use a communication makeover. “I

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

According to the research, light technologies are already providing solutions for environmental sustainability and climate protection. said: “Photonics has made it possible to identify the hazards of climate change. said: “Photonics has made it possible to identify the hazards of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

The findings from Colorado State University were published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment in what’s described as a first-of-its-kind study. Other non-point sources of pollution can come from wildfires – aided by climate change – or urban development, for example. The work from the Walter Scott, Jr.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We expected that climate change was going to make the winds of the most intense storms stronger,” said Michael Wehner, a coauthor of the paper and an extreme weather researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The concept could help the public grapple with the dangers that climate change is bringing, like more intense storms.

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, effectively communicating these advantages to the target market requires a strategic approach to branding and positioning. It requires the articulation of a brand story that communicates the company’s commitment to sustainability, innovation, and social responsibility.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

It can help improve seed sourcing practices for revegetation under climate change,” says Dr Breed. Genomics can tell us where we should be getting our seed from, which will have a better chance of surviving climate change impacts like more frequent and more intense heat waves. “As

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

Kearns had already worked in communications for years. Then she spoke at a community fire safety demonstration in Northern California. That really forced me into a reckoning about what science communication is,” she said. Sometimes, climate scientists are like doctors delivering bad news to patients.). Kearns joked.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. Climate change is already altering our way of life. Undermining climate action is the real scandal of our time.”

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It can also help inspire others within your organization and across your industry to make changes in their own lives and contribute to creating a more sustainable world. Improved Communication. When it comes to sustainability, communication is key. Greater Engagement. Increased Motivation. More Effective Decision Making.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? Getting any advice is difficult as carbon consultants are busy post COP26 and we, like many businesses nationwide, have limited in-house capacity to do it ourselves – although we’re making changes there! So what exactly are those misconceptions?

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

One of life's ultimate paradoxes is the nearly impossible task of changing a person’s mind while at the same time public opinion is never static. When it comes to climate change, we exist somewhere in the middle, painfully awaiting large swaths of the general public to accept proven facts. Mark Twain. Reality Bites…Hard.

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Here’s one of our favorites: The topic of climate change seems boring, technical and not relevant for the majority of people. The solution, according to Communications Specialist and Environmental Advocate John Marshall, is improving how we talk about climate change. To most people that doesn’t sound too bad.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Comedy can be used as a transformative tool in science communication and helps to create a positive impact on the general public's understanding of climate change, explains Professor Mark Maslin

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But now a research group seems to have shown that pollution from anthropogenic sources contributes to health risks and is an important climate factor across the region. The study was published in Nature Communications. Desert dust was assumed to be the primary contributor to elevated air pollution across the Middle East.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The idea of having an energy strategy—presented as a plan to connect the dots between economic opportunity, our efforts to combat climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, and meeting future electricity demand—sees extremely strong support at 83%, with nearly half of all respondents (47%) saying such a strategy is “very important.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides. The carbon price – or carbon tax, depending on where you sit in Parliament – was always going to be challenging to communicate and was always going to have political enemies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Read time: 9 mins More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and other extremes.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue. Big news: Global warming is over. Just the phrase itself, though.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A proposal to limit HSBC bank climate risk exposure by ending coal financing, a resolution to cut Chevron’s supply chain emissions, a move in support of a climate risk lawsuit against Polish energy company Enea SA. The September 2023 study , “Deactivating Climate Activism?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

With combined revenues of $67 billion in 2022, the six firms dominate the communications industry, and have hundreds of subsidiary agencies around the world. All six companies in DeSmog’s analysis have made public commitments to slash the carbon emissions from their operations, creating an appearance of climate awareness.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

In a first at the state level, the City of Hoboken, New Jersey recently added racketeering charges to its climate lawsuit against major petroleum producers and their national trade group the American Petroleum Institute (API). Puerto Rico lodged federal racketeering charges against the industry in a class action climate case last November.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2022

The fact that heat and moisture fuel hurricanes isn’t new, but the two studies offer fresh insights into how climate change is shaping today’s hurricanes. But what we’re finding, particularly through changes in extreme weather … is that the impacts are already here.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Job responsibilities In order to implement its energy transition and respond to the challenges of climate change, the Canton of Vaud wishes to develop deep geothermal energy. More details on the job opening and instructions on application are available via this link.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. So why do you care about the climate?” billion euros (around $2.49 subsidiary headquartered in New York City.

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