Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

To the extent that climate change makes the distribution of future shocks nastier, that could imply higher capital requirements, all else equal," Woods said, adding that a complex debate was on-going over when and whether new capital requirements may be required. Should climate risk be captured in capital requirements?"

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I left the Scottish Exhibition Centre and its network of slightly leaky Climate Enormo Tents on Saturday afternoon, just as COP26 President Alok Sharma declared the Summit had culminated in a 'clean' and 'balanced' text. It felt like a suitably bittersweet, perhaps even appropriately bathetic, moment. It is also vital to always remember that 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

A preternaturally talented communicator, fierce intellect, and uncompromising debater. She has transformed the global environmental movement, galvanised public support, and demanded responses from Presidents and Prime Ministers. And yet, this is what the Commission are proposing today". Greta Thunberg is a phenomenon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But at the same time attention is already turning to how any deal will be regarded and the signals it will send to the public and the business community. The only real source of debate is about how to get there. The negotiations at COP26 are rumbling towards extra time with fears growing that the talks could yet end in deadlock.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you ever find yourself in Xochimilco Ecological Park in Mexico City, you might happen upon La Isla de la Munecas—the Island of the Dead Dolls. One day, Santana claims to have found the body of dead girl floating in the canal, and later discovered what he presumed to be her doll washed up near his home. achtice Castle. (c)

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

. “Instead of asking, as part of our risk determination process, how likely something is to happen, we ask a more cerebral question, which is, if it did happen, could we manage it? Diversity and human capital management are also likely to come under more scrutiny legally and by stakeholders, Santona added.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from green experts to Chris Skidmore's indepedent review of the government's approach to delivering on its climate targets. It has left proponents of the UK's climate goals both vindicated and invigorated to press for more ambitious climate action from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Over to Government now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

My work focuses on the social science aspects of the GM debate. So what exactly is the difference between GM and gene editing? There isn't really an accepted definition of what genetic modification is, and that has certainly caused some problems. Issues surrounding genetically modified foods can be controversial.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I recently joined the most impressive group of clean energy leaders I’ve known, and it happens to have come together in support of Joe Biden for president. It includes more than 9,500 clean energy professionals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. And, no matter what your political ideology is, if you're a U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some events required a suit and tie, while others felt like next-level science fairs where engineer founders pitch what’s next in climate tech solutions. 🤑 The Climate Capital Stack takes center stage: Learning from our Cleantech 1.0 NYCW is everyone from activists to billionaires to billionaire activists.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It takes a lot of time and capital to recruit the right team and then design, validate and produce high-quality systems at scale. It’s still sort of an early part of the industry, so it’s not so easy to just go out and buy what you need. On the drivetrains, we’re more of an integrator of components. Dustin: Yeah. We went full vertical.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s what we talked about at the dinner table. To business gurus, an asset light model means that a business owns few capital assets relative to the value of its operations. He grew up near Auburn Hills, and his dad worked in the auto industry. “My My childhood was steeped in Detroit auto culture,” he told me.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Fossil fuels get named and shamed. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

As Congress resumes debate over the Build Back Better Act and other climate policies in the infrastructure and reconciliation bills, business leaders want action. To change the curve on climate emissions, we need significant federal investment in climate solutions for the public good.” We need Congress to pass this legislation?—?and

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

Regenerative is a disputed term," said Matthias Berninger, Bayer's senior vice president of public affairs, science and sustainability. There isn't a consensus on what is considered regenerative, how to correctly enforce those changes and how to measure the effects. In 1990, Congress passed the Organic Food Production Act.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What is retail sustainability? Retail sustainability defines a self-containing business entity that sells goods to the public for use and consumption, at a rate or level that can be maintained indefinitely. And we’re starting to see this shift happen in response to today’s market. Can the retail industry be sustainable ?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

COP26 has delivered an fresh set of commitments and the finalisation of the Paris Agreement rulebook - but what does it all mean for business? As the dust begins to settle after COP26, work must now begin towards interpreting and putting into practice what was agreed by 196 countries around the world in Glasgow on Saturday night.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. But experts speaking in a BusinessGreen briefing last week warned this highly critical assessment of the summit is not only misguided, but could prove counterproductive.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2021

This reality of what has happened to America has to change our priorities. There is no healthy economy if people are sick and dying in droves, and if people are not comfortable going to public places. So with all that said, what else is critical for Biden and the Congress to focus on?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A vote for clean energy Sarah Golden Fri, 10/16/2020 – 01:45 I recently joined the most impressive group of clean energy leaders I’ve known, and it happens to have come together in support of Joe Biden for president. It includes more than 9,500 clean energy professionals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

How difficult is it to achieve a net zero investment portfolio? On the face of it, the trend is favourable. Organisations such as the Net Zero Asset Managers and Net Zero Asset Owners Alliances already boast memberships that manage or own trillions of dollars of assets, and they are still growing fast.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “A Dubai investment fund owning a British broadcaster, funding a wing of the government and with a track record of backing reactionary causes, isn’t exactly what our politics needs at the moment. New Conservative MPs frequently appear on GB News.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 23, 2020

That’s not what I want to talk about though – you’d lose me very quickly. What I want to talk about is your work on ecological economics – what’s happening to the global environment, the consequences of that for humans, and about GDP growth. Love what you’re saying. Those things happened.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A vote for clean energy Sarah Golden Fri, 10/16/2020 – 01:45 I recently joined the most impressive group of clean energy leaders I’ve known, and it happens to have come together in support of Joe Biden for president. It includes more than 9,500 clean energy professionals in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The UK's public sphere and critical infrastructure feels like it is collapsing in on itself. The rest of the public are being forced to experience the nagging sense of quiet decline environmentalists have lived with for years. But with New Year approaching it is appropriate to not just reflect on what's past, but also look forward.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The attempt to brand the UAE Consensus as a success or failure misses the point - its impact depends on what governments and businesses do next Like Wile E. Coyote, but without the madcap comic charm, the global fossil fuel industry finds itself out beyond the cliff edge - it just hasn't realised yet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CEO of the UK's Climate Change Committee calls for more debate and scrutiny over how to deliver the UK's net zero transition. Frankly, I don't think we've had enough of that debate - enough of that scrutiny - of the many, many choices that are before us here in the UK," he said.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 26, 2023

One group includes sustainability supporters, both within the investor community and without, who are calling foul (or greenwashing) on financial firms for overpromising what ESG funds accomplish. Preparing for and figuring out a response to accusations of “woke-ness” is now a top leadership priority, so let’s unpack what’s going on.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 2, 2020

Here’s a brilliant article explaining what we mean, by Norbert Häring. According to its own description, the World Economic Forum is “THE international organisation for public-private cooperation” and has as its main objective “to improve the state of the world”. There is a dark plan behind it. Nothing about how we get there.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

So far, the Summit has engaged more than 40,000 people in nearly 500 dialogues, ignited major global debates about who shapes the food system and what its future looks like, and catalysed action towards new game-changing solutions. Momentum for change, but a word of caution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hell freezing over' refers to something that will never happen. But when north Texas freezes over, it not only dominates the news agenda, but tries to hang that agenda on the renewable vs fossil fuel energy debate. Tie-ups look set to become a leading trend as oil and gas companies scramble for a piece of the zero carbon pie.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

What happens next will be far more difficult. Whereas reactionaries like Nigel Farage have leapt on the chance to attack climate policies and demand a new wave of fracking, they are leading public debate down a dead end. Pursuing shale gas was government policy for much of the past decade.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Farage's campaign is calling for a "national debate and referendum" on the UK's net zero target, arguing that there is an insufficient democratic mandate for the current strategy. The net zero strategy then secured a further mandate at the 2019 election, while polling has repeatedly shown overwhelming public support for bolder climate action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

Lisa: We started in 2014 and participated in what was at that time the largest climate strike in New York City. So for us there is excitement within the company about Fridays for the Future, what they're doing, and how much action is going on. What's the business rationale for going 'actually, we're going to do this'?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

That this is happening in the DRC, a country that has seen its share of problems, is remarkable. There's little debate anymore that tropical forests must be protected. Fortunately, there are proven models that can make this happen. Stopping deforestation does not happen in government offices. Rare wildlife is returning.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

To spend or ship bitcoins, you might scan a retailer’s QR code or direct money to its public tackle. Don’t buy any cryptocurrency before you realize what it is you’re shopping for. And that is kind of but not quite like what you’d get should you bought something utilizing cash.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Trials and tribulations It seems each story announcing a fresh net zero pledge now sparks outraged warnings on social media that "net zero is not zero" or heartfelt explanations as to why net zero commitments are meaningless 'greenwash' and what is needed is "real zero", like, yesterday. So, what is going on here?

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