Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 18, 2024

This initiative is a collaborative effort between Elemental Excelerator, Teach for America Hawai’i, and SubjectToClimate, focusing on equipping teachers with the tools to integrate climate science and environmental justice into their curriculum.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Last week, the cloud-based software company Salesforce notified its thousands of suppliers that it will include language in all future procurement contracts requiring them, among other things, to set science-based targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. And it set financial penalties for those that don’t.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022. Anti-science climate change denialism has become the secret handshake that ushers in the faithful and bars the door to unbelievers,” Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. billion (£1.8 billion) in fossil fuel firms.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

It comes after DeSmog last night revealed that the energy secretary accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group. Cox has publicly denied climate science. The party is polling around ten percent. Drivers must get a fair price at the pump.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

We are definitely following the Science-Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTI) forthcoming emerging definition around net-zero ,” said Chelsea Mozen, director of sustainability at Etsy, who as one of the company’s first sustainability hires has helped build its strategy from the ground up. Etsy's annex office in Hudson, New York.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss, who is the Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, resigned as prime minister in October 2022 after just 49 days in office.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

While the total new funding announced this year is less than last year’s $2.8bn, it shows continued investment in and excitement about the industry, says the FIA, even as many technology investors have pulled back in other fields. Optimism about fusion remains high. Last year’s survey was dominated by a couple of big investments ($1.8

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Her cause: Ensuring young people of color have access to an education in science, technology, engineering, art and math. Read more about the process here. Read the Q&A here. Is it just? A label helps answer that question (37:30). This segment features Routman, along with ILFI Director of Business Development Shawn Hesse.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

The information gathered is vital in helping understand more about what is happening to the nation’s butterflies and therefore put in place the conservation measures needed to protect them. With the numbers of butterflies seemingly in decline, learning as much as possible about them is more important than ever.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More and more I’ve been hearing Sustainability people talk about their eco-anxiety. As Sustainability Professionals we need to keep abreast of the science, but not get sucked into the doom loop, so choose your sources carefully ( CarbonBrief is a go to for me), ration the bad news and block out the virtue signalling commentators.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week on Watt It Takes : Emily Kirsch sits down with Dr. Etosha Cave , the co-founder and chief science officer of Opus 12. The company has brought in about $20 million in funding. In this interview, Etosha talks about the inspiration for the technology, which came from her love of space and desire to go to Mars.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

UK conservation charity Buglife’s citizen science project, the Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt , is issuing a call for help. The Black Oil Beetle was also confirmed from Scotland, following doubt about previous records due to issues with misidentification. Short-necked Oil Beetle (image credit: (c) Peadar O’Connell).

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 9, 2024

What scientists are most excited about is the potential for generative AI to speed up their work. If we can see that kind of acceleration, my bet would be on that this is the way of the future to find these kinds of materials,” says Karl Mueller, a physical chemist and program development office director at PNNL.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The purchasing manager felt the results could help identify raw material suppliers that may be affected by these hazards and provide an opportunity to speak with them about steps they are taking to address these risks. Sustainability manager: Setting science-based targets for company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

An investigation by DeSmog found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action. “It Agnew, a former Cabinet Office minister under Boris Johnson, was in October appointed chair of UnHerd Ventures, another Marshall media vehicle.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By knowing where seagrass is, more can be learnt about the threats it is facing as well as what is required to conserve it.” said project organiser Katherine Knight, Science and Survey Officer at Seawilding.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. She has also promoted articles and comments that reject the role of human-made greenhouse gas emissions on climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alastair Collier, Chief R&D Officer at A Healthier Earth said: “The urgency of the climate crisis demands solutions that deliver impact and value. All A Healthier Earth’s biochar work is underpinned by rigorous research, backed by its Scientific Advisory Council, made up of experts specialising in leading and pioneering climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That was the stark title of the leaflets piled up outside the Birmingham & Midland Institute’s Lyttelton Theatre, where old school climate science denial was on open display on the outskirts of the Conservative party’s annual conference. Reform UK leader Richard Tice at the Bruges Group event. Credit: DeSmog. Question Time.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a new paper in Science Advances , they show how these takeout box–sized, plastic growth chambers could potentially provide scientists with a standardized and reproducible platform for conducting experiments on model plants and the microbes that live around their roots. And this has been a wonderful way to do it.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

The group says the collective ambition outlined in the roadmap “is based on current knowledge of decarbonization technologies and on a set of sound hypotheses about availability at scale, and the cost and abatement potential of these technologies.” “If

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

An investigation by DeSmog in May found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action. Paul Marshall is the chairman and chief investment officer of Marshall Wace, a London-based hedge fund that he co-founded in 1997.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Mapping a path to net zero is about action, not neutralisation. However, as our partner WWF points out, the Science Based Targets Initiative says businesses should reduce emissions by 90 per cent before even thinking about neutralising their residual emissions with permanent carbon removal and storage.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

In a press conference on 8 April, addressing questions about the party dismissing several of its candidates, Tice said : “If you’re going to have a glass of wine on a Friday night, don’t use social media. The party last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In exciting news for planet Earth, we are thrilled to announce that we have solidified a Strategic Partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to facilitate climate action through education and research, workforce development, and a science-first approach toward innovation.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 29, 2023

In collaboration with the Chief Development Officer, as SVP of Partnerships Ms. We are thrilled that Aisling has joined us to lead the Partnerships team,” said Juliana Garaizar, Chief Development and Investment Officer at Greentown Labs. “Her Carlson’s career features a dynamic mix of startup, venture, and technology leadership roles.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I’m sick and tired of scientists telling us mean, bad facts about our world in confusing ways,” Robinson shouts at the camera in a recent sketch. Sometimes the resulting videos are only mildly amusing: In a recent one, Rainn Wilson, Dwight from The Office , presents the case against fossil fuels to the court from Game of Thrones.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels. The GWPF is famously secretive about its sources of funding. The GWPF continues to spread climate science denial.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A TalkTV presenter co-hosts a YouTube show with the leader of a climate science denial group, on which he has called climate change a “paganistic religion” and said rising CO2 emissions will make the world “more green”. Walker is not the only TalkTV host to have attacked climate action and science. That’s even if you believe it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cranky Uncle , an app released on Tuesday, uses this approach to teach people the ins and outs of anti-science propaganda — you know, the kind of myths that convince people climate change is a Chinese hoax. He mentors you to become a science denier, just like him. I have a bachelor in computer science!”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Tory MP leading a backbench campaign against the government’s net zero policies is currently employing two aides linked to the UK’s most high-profile climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. The NZSG claims to accept climate science and Mackinlay recently said he is “not a climate-change denier”. Net Zero Scrutiny.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A new programme from the Science Based Targets Network aims to enable firms to adopt credible targets to support efforts to reverse the ongoing decline of nature. The body's new Corporate Engagement Programme aims to finalise the methods, tools, and guidance required to set similar science-based targets for protecting and enhancing nature. "We

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 5, 2024

Work is being done on all levels of education – from classroom activities and science fair in elementary schools and highs schools, resources for K-12 and university-level students, and workshops for teachers. ” The role of consistency was a point of emphasis by Shalanda H.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The UK’s new climate minister has pulled out of an event hosting two of the world’s most prominent climate science deniers, DeSmog can reveal. His speech would have been followed by a debate about global warming featuring Lord Christopher Monckton , who has a history of promoting climate science denial, and Marc Morano , a prominent U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. Moore has a history of rejecting climate science. Moore denied he was a GWPF trustee.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This needs to change to thinking about risks as connected.” .” “Despite this ubiquity of connections, many scientists and policymakers are embedded in institutions that are used to thinking and acting on isolated risks, one at a time. ” The survey is available at futureearth.org/initiatives/other-initiatives/grp.

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