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Report: Health of over 12 million people Brits threatened by climate change

Business Green

Blistering heatwaves and devastating flood events are set to take an ever greater toll on the UK's mental and physical health, according to the Climate Coalition. Governments must urgently recognise the threat posed by climate change and set the recovery on a green pathway that enshrines planetary and public health above all else.".

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Will A New Climate-Conscious Generation Embrace Advances In Nuclear Technology?

Energy Innovation

This was the day that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) produced using nuclear fusion technology. Fusion technology likely won’t be readily available for commercialization until mid-century , and even then, some argue it may prove too expensive to ever become commercially viable.

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Tug of War: The Impact of Climate Change on Economic Development

Unsustainable

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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Meet the Labour Government’s New Climate Team

DeSmogBlog

Chris Stark, the former chief executive of the government’s advisory body, the Climate Change Committee, was on Tuesday appointed the head of Mission Control for Clean Power, in charge of decarbonising the UK’s electricity by 2030. The scale of the challenge is enormous. Ed has been here before.

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ESG and Sustainability: Your 101 Guide for Understanding Corporate Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. For instance, suddenly sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality. In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Best known for its butter — and the Native American logo it retired last year — Land O’Lakes is also a 21st-century force in technology. Elsa Wenzel. billion.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

It keeps the focus broad, promoting itself as a leader on climate change while simultaneously downplaying global warming’s significance vis-a-vis other issues and espousing solutions that can serve the industry. P2DNZ has maintained this pro-industry stance in presentations.

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