Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

When Bill Gates said that ending the Covid-19 pandemic was easier than tackling the challenge of climate change, he was right. But we also need to understand the crucial role that caring for our environment plays if we are to prevent such a pandemic from taking so many lives and causing so much fear and loss again.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Robert – About a decade ago I was researching a book chapter I was writing, and I learned something new. Can you address that? You know, in some places I’ve seen people just burning rubbish because they need heat. You don’t need to develop vaccines to stop people dying from air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Paul Polman’s rallying cry for courageous leaders Jean Haggerty Mon, 02/15/2021 – 02:15 In addition to having a devasting effect on lives and livelihoods, COVID-19 has been the biggest global disruptor in recent memory. “[We] need leaders who know that by investing in others, they will be better off themselves.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile, key decisions over controversial Cumbrian coal mines and North Sea oil and gas projects are also likely to be made before the end of 2021, providing a clear test of how serious the government is about the transition away from fossil fuels. Nobody knows everything that's going on. Nobody has got the full picture in a COP.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

What’s up in the worlds of the 120 alumni from past lists? We asked them to consider two questions: With the world turned upside down, what is your focus at work? Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? We as human beings and our planet are all connected.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

This is what makes the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, COP 26, so critical. And, with Sharma facing a huge task to both charm and rally nations around the world towards raising their climate ambitions this year and raise the domestic profile of the government's decarbonisation agenda, it needed to be.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 23, 2023

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Politicians have used their significant online platforms to spread misinformation on food and farming ahead of the EU elections, a new analysis shows. Up to 375 million voters from 27 countries are casting their votes this week (June 6-9) to elect 720 MEPs to represent them in the European Parliament.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“I am in desperate need of a camper trailer,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, told me outside of her totaled home in Chauvin, Louisiana, about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans. That’s my job as a leader and is what I was taught to do by my elders.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Comparing human society's behaviour to that of a teenager, he argued that "we believe that someone else will clear up the mess we make, because that is what someone else has always done". UK Prime Minister delivers passionate paean to green economy in major climate speech at UN General Assembly. It is time for humanity to grow up.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 11, 2021

and features gorgeous animals and fascinating info about their lives. And you can watch it free on YouTube. Three of the hosts talked to Inhabitat about their new series — favorite moments, what they learned and why viewers should care. Here’s what they have to say about “ In Our Nature.”

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Grist

MAY 8, 2024

By contrast: Picture living in a bustling neighborhood where all your friends, basic needs, and even your job are reachable by a quick walk or bike or bus ride. The spotlight There are few experiences more soul-sucking than sitting in traffic. According to NPR, the average American lost nearly an hour a week to traffic congestion in 2022.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

SDG17's vision of a sustainable future driven by cross-border partnerships has been under siege for the past four years, but is a change coming in the way governments and businesses tackle global challenges? Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Climate change activists could learn from and utilise the current covid-19 crisis, to make this short-term environmental windfall become a lasting victory. So what’s the winning strategy for climate activists now? Nor should you. Nor should it take a backseat to Covid-19. Here are the three major ones.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2021

In the eyes of many Americans, it has to do with the annoying way non-scientists talk about science. Really what we’re saying is, ‘Well, I believe in the science, dumbass!’”. “Listen to the science” isn’t just a bumper sticker anymore — it’s official White House policy. So how, then, did science get so polarizing?

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Against this volatile backdrop, the political consensus on the need for climate action has, perhaps suprisingly, been broadly maintained. Difficult policy questions lie ahead that could sow seeds of division – but could a 'patriotic sense of national mission' help smooth the path to net zero emissions?

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As much as this year has been about Black Lives Matter, it is also about something else: This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people. Little else can explain white people allowing 139,000 of themselves to die from COVID-19 as of late November.

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