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In focus: How to push climate resilience up the corporate agenda

Business Green

With greenhouse gas emissions still rising and the world on course to overshoot both the 1.5C With greenhouse gas emissions still rising and the world on course to overshoot both the 1.5C The UK is by no means alone in this potentially disastrous oversight.

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Conservative Party conference: Calls grow for government rethink on energy efficiency and nature policies

Business Green

For starters, worsening fears of UK gas supply shortages this coming winter are placing renewed pressure on the embattled government to ramp up its efforts to cut energy demand by offering further support for efficiency measures backed by public advice on reducing energy use.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

BusinessGreen brings you an overview of the key business takeaways from the Glasgow Climate Summit. Forward-thinking businesses and financiers are set to be agents of change as governments look for ways to turn ambition into action - a role that is clearly not lost on the many business leaders represented at the SEC Centre in Glasgow.

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? Headwinds for offshore wind #173

Climate Tech VC

  Hope you’ve turned back your clocks and enjoyed the extra hour of shuteye this weekend and last week (for those who celebrate).  In news, clean energy developers continue to face the headwinds of rising interest rates - with especially strong gusts hitting offshore wind. Take me to the survey!

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. Planet-healing fast food.

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Climate Deniers Are Using These Four Major Scare Tactics to Stop Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

As catastrophic fires spread across the world and large swathes of land are flooded by extreme weather events or threatened by sea-level rise, outright denial is no longer the most effective strategy, or these days, the most common. At its core, this new approach relies on fear. They lied, manipulated, and deceived.