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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We As the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

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). How ESG reporting differs from sustainability reporting. In this series we will explain: What ESG reporting is. Why ESG reporting is important.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability.

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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. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so.

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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. A digital transformation of ESG and sustainability reporting .

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the products in question are going to have a positive impact on the health of the planet and sustainability of the food industry, and in the case of Memphis Meats, bring a new and desirable product into the multi-trillion dollar global meat market, then it will be worth the wait.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If the products in question are going to have a positive impact on the health of the planet and sustainability of the food industry, and in the case of Memphis Meats, bring a new and desirable product into the multi-trillion dollar global meat market, then it will be worth the wait.

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Startups Agriculture Investment Technology 52

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

If I, a privileged member of society, am having such a difficult time managing finances and trying to be sustainable, how can we expect people from underprivileged backgrounds to be on this spectrum? This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

“In the mind of the public, health and climate change represent different and separate realms of knowledge and concern,” laments the latest annual report on health and climate change published by the leading medical journal The Lancet earlier this year. has no major money pot for developing a climate and health workforce.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Among the board’s responsibilities is overseeing the company’s sustainability strategy. Morris was president, chief executive officer, and chairman of American Electric Power (AEP) from 2004 to November 2011 and continued as AEP’s chairman until 2013. They are fulfilling their mandate at any time in the best interest of Swiss Re.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village. In January 2020, Kivalina and the Louisiana Tribes brought their joint complaint to the UN, alleging that the U.S.

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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. The standards celebrate a shift in business for the adoption of a sustainable business model. ISO 14001:2004 or ISO 14001:2015?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“It’s important that we recognize dairy is not just about emissions,” Donald Moore, GDP’s executive director and the public face of P2DNZ, said during a presentation at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development last July. GDP, which handles media relations for P2DNZ, did not respond to requests for comment.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. There is also an intermediate option, a wetland that sustains a crop: rice in flooded fields. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. As the U.S.

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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. Cristiana Pa?ca SDG 15 to the rescue?

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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 This combined health and economic shock is bound to reshape the global economic, political and social environment in which we all live and work," he observed. "It Carbon emissions from energy use grew by 0.5 per cent to 10.4

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. trillion in health and economic costs; that works out to a staggering $8 billion a day. The United Nations has estimated that in 2018 alone, air pollution from fossil fuels caused $2.9 The bill proposes fines up to $1.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The first papers were published earlier this month, including one from Cato Institute researcher Marian Tupy on the topic of “superabundance” – in other words, if the world and its natural resources can sustain population growth. In the report , Tupy suggests that critics of established climate science have been censored by the media.

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Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Policy 133

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With APRIL bolstering its own sustainability commitments as it sets its sights on achieving a net zero emission, deforestation-free future, is this corporate tiger fully committed to changing its stripes, or is it embarked on a great greenwash folly? As a managing director at RGE, Tanoto Jr.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org. About the Author.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org. About the Author.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Predator and prey dynamics are complex: The calves may have died anyway from injury or disease, and their removal may reduce competition for food and resources, improving the herd’s overall health. Provisions in the state constitution mandate game managers provide for “sustained yields,” including for big game animals like bears.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” Jackson talks of preserving the national park and also the health impacts of living near oil and gas development. So we still want these issues to be addressed.”. Those issues are myriad.

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Methane Health Government Technology 52

Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Its purveyors escaped, through a judge’s decision, tougher scrutiny by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The inspector noted that the unkempt vegetation between the two facilities “could sustain a fire” that risked engulfing the fertilizer building, possibly triggering “substantial property damage and evacuations.”.

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