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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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How forestry conservation is sustaining both the climate and livelihoods in the Congo

Business Green

It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. The forest is our home; when we leave the forest or if the forest dies, we shall die. It uses them to stop or redirect the activities that drive forest and biodiversity loss, reaching about 50,000 people so far.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Loss of biodiversity. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. Sustainability.

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Trump's Support is Collapsing Because He Is on the Wrong Side of History

Green Market Oracle

In their place he has given foxes the run of the hen house hiring fossil fuel industry advocates rather than qualified individuals. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity. Trump has removed those with expertise from all levels of government.