Grist

JULY 20, 2023

The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Former US vice-president Al Gore has teamed up with the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), David Blood, to launch a new asset manager, which they say will prioritise tackling climate change. The new firm, Just Climate, says its mission is to achieve the limiting of global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 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. At Starbucks, that expanded focus also blends with its climate leadership initiatives. Elsa Wenzel.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of my bugbears is the constant attempts to shift the ‘blame’ for climate change to someone else – whether it is China, Big Business or the Super-Rich. Concerned about the damage being done to its corporate reputation by the climate crisis, BP hired a public relations firm to bolster its image.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian firm currently lobbies in the UK on behalf of mining company Ferrexpo, which says it is “at the forefront of strategic oil and gas investments that drive both financial prosperity and sustainable energy solutions.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 31, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role? Sign up here.

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Education Climate change Organic Startups 52

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role? Sign up here.

Education 52

Education Climate change Organic Startups 52

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role? Sign up here.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Industry Voice: There is no silver bullet for immediately reducing scope 3 emissions, but the priority must be putting sustainability at the centre of a business strategy, according to Mondi. From our experience, it's helpful to break it down: What does climate change mean to your business? Why is it important to you?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. In the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

However, the recent announcement of the formation of Sustainable New Zealand - a non-ideologically aligned political party dedicated solely to advocating for environmentalism in a bipartisan manner - is the latest development in rising global Green centrism. Elsewhere, Green centrism has been prevalent.

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Politics Biotechnology Policy Sustainability 58

Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

where recent research has found that one in ten premature deaths are caused by air-polluting fossil fuels, medical schools have only begun grappling with a lack of curricula focused on climate change in the last couple of years. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth.

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Climate change Medicine Health Fossil fuels 141

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. But climate change is throwing off generations of traditional knowledge as weather — especially rainfall — has become less predictable. Misjudging the best planting time can lead to financial ruin. Wright: Dr. Armi Susandi, MT.

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Agriculture Climate change Technology Government 36

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the permafrost that Kivalina sits on and that forms the banks of the river that sustains their community is melting and eroding into the water, threatening their drinking water treatment system and creating potential health problems. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

Scheduled to run from April 1 to June 5, 2020, this year's campaign tackles Goals 7, 12 and 13 of the United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - namely Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Climate Action. All of us can and should play a part.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Campaigners said the revelation was a “slap in the face” for those suffering the effects of climate change in the South Pacific, where the archipelago is located. Rather, he said, their proposal “built on the waiver that already exists” within the IMO’s International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.

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Government Climate change Ethics Transportation 90

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The links revealed by DeSmog’s analysis may show a “revolving door” between insurers and high-polluting industries that may explain why, despite the risks, the sector has been slow to act on climate change, said Lucie Pinson, executive director at the environmental campaign group Reclaim Finance, reacting to the findings.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Through the efforts of governments, the international community, companies, and academia, geothermal is poised to make prominent contributions to addressing global energy and environmental issues and driving sustainable development. “In 2004, the park was officially awarded the title of “World Geological Park.”

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In the face of this vicious act of terrorism Americans came together, we must do so again to protect each other from the far more deadly threats posed by the coronavirus, climate change and an incompetent commander-and -chief. Related Sustainable Design in the New World Trade Center Buildings Subscribe in a reader

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Health Climate change Pollution Construction 52

Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As the world’s climate changes every day due to our consumption of the natural materials around us, industries are forced to take another look at their design tactics, business models, and the materials they use to build end products. consumer behavior began demanding more transparency and sustainability. Bonus Question: 11.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

Our goal is to support 100,000 startups to succeed by 2030 – a decisive decade in our collective struggle with climate change. The post Managing Director appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability. With our network, we directly boost hundreds of entrepreneurs annually while uplifting thousands more.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. On top of this, another report by the Global Investment Sustainable Alliance stated that sustainable investments have risen by 15% from 2018 to 2020 (reaching $35 trillion).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This is creating a soup of ESG interpretations , muddling what constitutes a sustainable investment vs what does not. You’ll learn what is being done to create a standardized approach to ESG, and how financial institutions can help create a more sustainable world. This will, and is changing. What Is ESG.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. Shefali Sharma, the director of the European office of IATP, says equating efficiency with climate progress is a mistake.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 125

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The problem is that terrestrial ecosystems can quickly flip from sources of life-sustaining abundance into actively hostile environments when they are exploited unsustainably. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution".

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 79

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. and globally by 2040.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

As stakeholder pressure mounts to drive more sustainable business operations, a growing number of organizations are turning to trustworthy and globally recognized guiding standards and certifications. IS0 14001 standards have opened difficult discussions around climate change , resource use, business waste , and water management.

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Organic Sustainability Climate change Demand 78

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. In the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

To help gain access to that funding the joint venture has contracted with Innovative Emergency Management, a consulting firm that in 2004 won a contract to craft a simulated hurricane response plan that FEMA later used to respond to Hurricane Katrina. The contract with Luma is not the first to receive scrutiny post-Hurricane Maria.

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Natural gas Resilience Electricity Energy 130

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Believe it or not, that basically represents the first electricity link between the island country of Cyprus (full member of the EU since 2004) and the EU grid. It supports the development of high performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

per cent, marking its fastest growth since 2004; and renewables share of power generation increased from 9.3 It has the potential to accelerate emerging trends and create opportunities to shift the world onto a more sustainable path. Carbon emissions from energy use grew by 0.5 per cent seen in 2018," the report states. per cent to 10.4

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Vince, who received an OBE in 2004 for his services to the environment and the electricity industry, plans to stay on as chairman of Forest Green Rovers, the League Two side he took charge of in 2010 and has since transformed into the world's first vegan football club.

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Politics Energy Energy Climate change 39

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Gove and Badenoch will also be speaking alongside Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, who has called climate change a “hoax”, and former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott – a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. prosperity.”

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Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Policy 134

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. Canada’s governments — both federal and provincial — are second globally in providing public subsidies to carbon capture efforts , which experts argue is exacerbating climate change.

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Fossil fuels Health Pollution Government 102

Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon. Provisions in the state constitution mandate game managers provide for “sustained yields,” including for big game animals like bears. In the 1990s, the herd had swelled as part of a natural boom-and-bust cycle, leading to overgrazing.

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Politics Climate change Energy Monitor Government 145

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty. A binding treaty on climate change was signed by 197 countries on April 22nd, 2016.

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