GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

These industry-funded propaganda and polarization tactics have had a corrosive impact on democracies worldwide, resulting in a dangerously ineffective response to climate change. We are also unveiling investigations into a volatile oil deal in Somalia pursued by two U.S. and the world.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization's lofty statement has enduring impact. First, a refresher.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In April 2023, Total Energies sued Greenpeace France and climate consulting firm Factor-X, claiming that a recent joint report accusing the French oil giant of vastly under-representing its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions contained “false and misleading information.” A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 30, 2023

Using Planet satellite data, EOMAP, a water quality monitoring organization, took a deep dive into the ecological events that led to to die-off in August. Their analysis revealed which compounded environmental factors led to the creation of a toxic algal bloom, lethal to fish and other aquatic organisms. The mystery was solved.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the context of oil and gas companies, shareholder activism takes on “added significance” and has a “unique role” in driving real climate action by Big Oil, Benson said. This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Climate Impacts. Climate Strategies.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. trillion in net benefits between 2020 and 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. He died of COVID-19 on October 27.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The CW BCM program offers a 20% discount towards green business certification, providing the financial support for sustainable development in business, and helping organizations get certified for their efforts. Funding for New York-based organizations can cover a significant subsidy of the total service costs. The credit limit is $2.5

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Initiatives include addressing climate change by moving to renewable energy sources. Other popular certification organizations include LEED, ISO, and Green Business Bureau. ISO-International Organization for Standardization has developed over 18,500 International Standards on a variety of subjects. Green Business Bureau.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Senegal, for instance, banned imports of frozen chicken in 2006, making local production essential to KFC’s entrance into the country. Industrial poultry operations are also a startling contributor to climate change. Of the six companies DeSmog examined, four made arrangements with Yum after the banks announced their assistance.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention. [i].

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If you’re in the US, your 2020 likely included living through record-breaking temperatures , hurricanes , and/or wildfires , as the academic warnings of climate change quickly became a reality (my personal experience was Blade Runner in SF ). believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.

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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. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

She also oversees Ceres work to engage financial regulators on climate change as a systemic risk, under the umbrella of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Ann is CEO/Co-Founder of the Dunollie Fund, a family impact investing and charitable organization. Ann MacDougall. CEO/Co-Founder, Dunollie Fund.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. climate denial theories into Italy. Marshall Institute. In 2002, in a hearing in the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. ESG Benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

According to Stanford Social Innovation Review, 90% of CEOs know sustainability is vital for their company’s success in today’s changing business landscape. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization’s lofty statement has enduring impact. First, a refresher.

Politics 36

Politics Sustainability Ethics Fashion 36

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

“Our hope is that attorney general Maura Healey, if she chooses to take action on this, will hold Harvard accountable for its dangerous fossil fuel investments,” said Sofia Andrade, a sophomore at Harvard and one of the organizers of Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. At the last count, livestock production contributes 14.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 10, 2021

It can also save funding organizations money because it can rationalize costs by allowing companies to purchase materials (like panels and racking) in bulk, thereby bringing down the overall price of the project. Grouping solar projects into larger portfolios is certainly not a new practice. Job Creation.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. The Million Solar Roofs initiative was created in 2006, and suddenly $3.2 Public policy involves a lot of organizing and a lot of hard work, and that’s clearly what I bring to the table.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. Freshwater City had fallen into disuse long before Black Elk’s bankruptcy – in fact, largely before the start-up even arrived on the scene.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. In 2006, some of these same NGOs formed the U.S. First, climate change is real and affecting businesses today.

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