AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Even with concerted efforts to curb climate change, it’s clear we are already living through the effects of a warming world. In 2007, we had, at the time, the largest solar array in North Carolina. Reducing energy usage and choosing renewable energy sources One of the biggest impacts on the climate is energy usage.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

By William Barber III & Ethan Blumenthal As the state’s economy looks to recover from COVID-19, the clean energy industry provides an opportunity to both hasten our recovery and address other urgent challenges North Carolinians face, including racial inequity, job growth, job quality and climate change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG’s arrival at the Big Dance Since the rebound from the 2007-08 financial crisis, it would have taken a singularly motivated unwise investor to lose money in U.S. Prior to the 2007-08 financial crash, ExxonMobil enjoyed a market capitalization in excess of $500 billion. equity markets. ESG investors were not unwise.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

This, in spite of the fact that Southern California, along with much of the West, is in the midst of what experts call a megadrought that some believe may not be a temporary, one-off occurrence, but a recurring event or even a climate change-driven permanent “aridification” of the West. San Diego has pursued a multi-pronged approach.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Princeton Net Zero America report 2020-21 Shortly after Biden won the Presidency, Princeton University published a 350 slide powerpoint deck and lots of data in a report called Net Zero America , a really ambitious piece of work to back up the Biden campaign pledges around climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The UK has set a goal to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042, for example, and earlier this month hundreds of countries agreed to get the ball rolling on drawing up a landmark, legally-binding global plastics treaty, akin to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Where you keep your money dictates how your money is invested.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

The advocacy organization Mothers Out Front has maintained that swapping combustion engines for electric ones is essential to combating climate change because nationwide the transportation sector is the largest emitter of heat-trapping gases. Environmental Protection Agency didn’t institute standards until model year 2007.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bush joined other world leaders and signed the first global treaty to combat climate change, saying that an "unprecedented era of peace, freedom and stability" in the wake of the Cold War would spur action to protect the environment. "We But three decades on, times have changed radically. Climate fears.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That principle lies at the heart of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a global resolution adopted by 144 nations in 2007. ” She pointed to the convergence of recent racial justice movements, growing climate concerns, and strengthening Indigenous movements. Credit: Peg Hunter. (CC

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And, as of next month, the governor of Massachusetts will be Maura Healey, who made her name, in part, as the state’s attorney general, by suing the fossil-fuel industry for having misled the public about climate change. In 2020, Massachusetts voted for Biden by better than two to one; Boston did by nearly five to one.

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