Grist

JULY 5, 2023

should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. In fact, she says, the building has a trash-sorting system on the back end that offers greater efficiency — something she routinely explained to the shocked interns. Most Americans agree that the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The best climate news of 2023 hasn’t just just come out of closed-door diplomatic meetings. It’s been been happening in communities across the world, where climate anxiety is becoming a hot topic of mainstream conversation*. These feelings have been shared by the most informed people, climate scientists, for years.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Venture and growth form the foundational layer of the climate capital stack, setting the stage for subsequent project finance and debt layers to finance the best solutions, and cross the valleys of death into broad deployment. 2024 is looking to be a critical year as climate tech continues its journey from the lab to large scale deployment. 

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

Like much of the country, California is faced with a “new abnormal,” in which wildfires and other climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and destructive. It’s exposing both the vulnerability of our existing electric system and the opportunity to use clean energy as a critical resilience strategy.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Through the work of the Corporate Leaders Group, we have demonstrated how business can show leadership in response to climate crisis and sought to build positive partnerships with government to support and guide action on that issue. The world is changing in front of our eyes, as the impact of this global pandemic becomes apparent.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. [I published this piece, co-authored with Paul Polman, in Harvard Business Review a few weeks ago. I’ll explore why reality makes me uncomfortable in another article coming soon. ” every day. They shouldn’t.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

We’re all increasingly aware of the dramatic consequences of climate change and how humanity’s actions are directly having a visible, tangible effect on the health of our world. It Shows Responsibility and Humanity. Customers Want it. It Has a Real Effect.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines. And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When it comes to building more flood-proof U.S. cities, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is, there’s plenty of federal funding available to build new infrastructure like storm drains. In the U.S., In the U.S., These weather stations, however, are not always owned or operated by NOAA.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. In the phrase ‘build back better’, the problem is with the word ‘back’. Let’s not build the same thing again, but something new. Also, most countries will miss their targets.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A good internship can launch a fulfilling career helped along by supportive mentors. A bad internship can sour your taste for an entire industry. This summer, EDICT placed 76 interns with 52 employers across the climate sector, bringing the program’s total to 176 interns placed over its three years in existence.

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

I guess our task is to help get things in place that can catch people if everything does fall over. You demonstrate lots of people who are involved in mutual credit, or mutual support in lots of ways – for the most part small-scale. But now people are ready to learn and to take these ideas forward. I hope you’re right.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. added resilient building consultant and former Passive House Canada board chair Deborah Byrne. On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That is, how we can we move sustainability into a category of things we just do in business — like safety, quality, investing in people, and so on. The year started with Amazon and Salesforce cutting 18,000 and 8,000 people , respectively, and sector momentum grew into the spring. This appeared last month in MIT SMR.]

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

Good Morning. I’m doing a series of interviews with people for an upcoming book on building a new economy around a mutual credit core. What do you mean by ‘trashing the planet’ and what are good sources on what’s happening? But people look out of the window and they don’t see the damage. Hello John.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ. A large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires has been launched by environmental startup Dryad Networks. Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 15, 2022

What inspires you in your work fighting climate change? I can think of no better way than seeking to solve global problems, empower people, and help people imagine and create a world that is fundamentally better. Being surrounded by amazing people doing incredible work is a positive feedback loop that keeps me going.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

From her childhood experiences to her company’s technology, SaLisa Berrien ’s life has a consistent throughline: our lives are shaped by the people around us, and collaboration is key to success. The company answers a persistent climate issue: the fact that commercial buildings waste up to 30 percent of the energy they consume.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Emma Howard Boyd warns almost £650bn of planned public and private UK infrastructure investment at risk in current decade unless climate impacts are considered in planning. The danger is that people "won't realise this deception until it's too late", she is to say in comments trailed ahead of a speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2022

The GHG Protocol’s emission classification system. Hence the pressure mounts for companies to measure, manage and report their GHG emissions. And doing that successfully starts by understanding how GHG emissions are categorized. Scope 2 : These are indirect GHGs released due to the energy bought by an organization.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Welcoming the launch of the scheme today, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the move formed part of the government's plan to "build back better" and that boosting energy efficiency would boost jobs and help cut bills and CO2. The Green Homes Grant scheme is now LIVE and is part of our plan to build back better.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

More than 11,000 people from across the UK signed up to take part in the virtual meetings, which have been organised by the The Climate Coalition group of leading green NGOs. We don't want business as usual because it was bad business. million new jobs while reviving the economy. million new jobs while reviving the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

As a result, people concerned about these projects are unable to evaluate their potential for harm until the time-limited public commenting period, which no project in Louisiana has reached yet. He suspected that Exxon asked the state to clean up the well site in preparation for a carbon capture project in the parish.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 6, 2021

They wanted to help a worthy organization, but didn’t know who could put their items to good use,” Scott said. They wanted to help a worthy organization, but didn’t know who could put their items to good use,” Scott said. Nearly one in five people throw reusable goods in the trash, according to a 2018 State of Reuse Report from Savers.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5 People are understandably shocked and scared by those numbers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.”

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

Since founding a renewable energy business in rural Jefferson County nearly a decade ago, I’ve been fortunate to work alongside people whose grit, vision and ingenuity has helped our company grow and prosper. million people. million people. Over the past few weeks, our most urgent duties have changed dramatically.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. In Brazil, more than 20,000 people were displaced after heavy rainfall in May triggered floods and landslides. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In good times and bad, meet leaders where they are, and intentionally link sustainability with language that they understand regarding business risk and opportunity. This approach creates additive ‘sustainable/ regenerative value stacks' for all businesses that in good times or bad cannot be ignored.".

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2021

Perhaps it’s because people who’ve never driven an EV imagine that it needs to be like driving a legacy vehicle, with periodic stops at public stations to quickly refuel. Battery swapping may have seemed like a good idea a decade ago, when most EVs had ranges under 100 miles, and public charging barely existed.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developed nations must work harder to build trust with their developing world counterparts at COP27 by meeting existing climate finance commitments and mobilising more funds to help poorer nations decarbonise their economies and enhance their climate resilience. of warming this century.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Microsoft is huge, and it's not bad company to be in. And the concept of taking responsibility for historic CO2 is by no means novel in the climate sector, either. Velux Group's vice-president of sustainability reveals what it takes to address emissions from the present, the future, and the past. Quite the opposite.".

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

This story was originally published by The National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, most of the fields surrounding Joel VanderSchaaf’s Prairie farm were baked and brown, withered by one of the most severe droughts in recent memory. Liam Richards / National Observer.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything - the next Prime Minister should be able to answer questions about it, a lot of questions. The truth is that the climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many urgent takeaways from the Climate Change Committee's stark UK climate preparedness assessment - here are the top five. Damaging climate impacts are inevitable, varied and here today. This needs to change," the CCC said. everyone), but most immediately for all levels of government and all sizes of business.

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