GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. The Corporate Sustainability Team will be working with our CEO and executive team to implement new initiatives as they relate to sustainability and operational resilience. I moved from the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

One points towards a greener, more resilient economy characterised by stronger rules and incentives for high carbon industries to put their future on a net zero footing. Calls for a green recovery are nothing new of course - similar arguments were made in the wake of the last global financial crisis in 2008.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Amid today's unparalleled health and economic crises, the plunge in demand for nearly all major fuels is staggering, especially for coal, oil and gas. If the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economics improve," he said. of warming.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. There can therefore be no excuse for Member States not spending recovery and resilience funds on win-win green investment opportunities.".

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Front and Centered opposes this effort as this market mechanism does not reduce pollution in impacted communities.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Three investors and more than 70 Greentown Labs community members connected virtually in late March to discuss topics that are top of mind for many startups right now: how to build company resilience, manage investor relationships, and fundraise in an uncertain economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The days when a company's health and prospects were measured solely by financial performance are over. And how health, nature, the economy and our climate cannot exist in isolation, but depend on each other for survival. Finally, as the economy resets, remember that this is a business opportunity. Consider what you have learned.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 92

Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Rebuilding the economy after the 2008 financial crash resulted in global carbon emissions rising by six per cent year-on-year with precious little change to the institutions that caused the crash. How can the UK shift society and economy to a model that is fairer and more resilient? A more resilient food system.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

Europe 79

Europe Climate change Logging Soil 79

AGreenLiving

MAY 5, 2020

Amid today’s unparalleled health and economic crises, the plunge in demand for nearly all major fuels is staggering, especially for coal, oil and gas. And if the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economic conditions improve. The rest is here:Â .

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Kering is looking to solutions such as isotope tracking, genetic mapping and laser markings as a means of verifying that materials meet health and sourcing requirements, Regent says.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Three investors and more than 70 Greentown Labs community members connected virtually in late March to discuss topics that are top of mind for many startups right now: how to build company resilience, manage investor relationships, and fundraise in an uncertain economy.

Startups 52

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

From global leadership in putting climate on the agenda, the passing of the Climate Change Act in 2008, to last year's legislation setting a 2050 deadline to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the UK has shown powerful, high-level commitment in addressing the climate challenge.". "So

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis had presented governments with "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They also have implications for communities, in terms of health benefits, cost savings and employment opportunities. Additional benefits include local job creation, cleaner air and electricity system resilience due to greater reliance on local energy resources. 100% targets come in different forms.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Digital technologies and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, Birol further argued, are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives, and the current crisis highlights the need to innovate and build resilience into energy systems worldwide, with green technologies at the forefront of this effort.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

In 2008 the digital telecoms giant became one of the first companies in the world to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target in line with keeping temperature increases below 2C, which it achieved four years early in 2016. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action. she tells BusinessGreen. "So

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Beginning with the city’s Climate Protection Plan in 2008, Murphey led the effort to identify potential climate risks to the region and recommend actions, many of which have been implemented. Murphey advised on all projects and policies that could build a more sustainable and prepared Kansas City.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 30, 2021

A former research scientist in clean energy and transportation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gopal has a grant-making philosophy that focuses on electrifying the global economy quickly, resiliently and reliably with clean power.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change. UK policy action.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

NHS Sustainability Day campaign launches annual impact report as work continues by expert panel commissioned by NHS England to investigate into how and when the health service can meet net zero. The group was convened in January, as NHS England launched an intiaitve dubbed For a Greener NHS, in a bid to tackle the 'climate health emergency'.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008. After the particularly destructive 2005 and 2008 hurricane seasons, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP all prepared alternate sites for business operations, control centers, and data systems in parts of the United States not vulnerable to hurricanes. Credit: Robert Scoble ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Africa 98

Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

its thirteenth sustainability report since 2008. With the global push for a low-carbon economy, there is great potential for the built environment to contribute to a climate-resilient future. Changing the Future.", CDL's ISR 2020 highlights its strategy anchored on four pillars - integration, innovation, investment and impact.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. The Corporate Sustainability Team will be working with our CEO and executive team to implement new initiatives as they relate to sustainability and operational resilience. I moved from the U.S.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 28

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

million tonnes of annual emissions since 2008. While she believes delivering net zero farming by 2040 would be a "phenomenal achievement", she also sees it as a feasible goal that would hugely benefit the industry, as well as the UK as a whole, due in part to farming's potential to provide climate resilience and carbon capture services.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic. The past 15 years have tested the resilience of everyone living along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, including the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band and the four other state-recognized tribes that live nearby. Barry Yeoman. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 00:15.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

federal energy infrastructure and modernization recovery funds in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Gammons: Allowing these new service providers to participate in that same digital overlay that connects the network to provide enhanced services that improve the reliability and resilience of the network.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

Since 2008, an average of 20 million people have been internally displaced each year. McLeman said lowering the legal barriers for climate migrants could allow people to more easily find safe housing or legal, secure employment to send money home, an important way that families build resilience.

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Sea level rise Climate change Asia Africa 78

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Kering is looking to solutions such as isotope tracking, genetic mapping and laser markings as a means of verifying that materials meet health and sourcing requirements, Regent says.

Policy 28

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Ratings agencies took a reputational hit for failing to anticipate the 2008 Financial Crisis," said Dr Patrycja Klusak, affiliated researcher at Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy and lecturer at UEA, who led the study. "It

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares. Building back better.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

While some aspects of the industry, such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, may be relatively resilient to economic downturns, it is not entirely recession-proof. For example, during the global economic recession of 2008, the renewable energy sector experienced a slowdown in investment and growth. And it's just getting started.

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