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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

Business Green

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Re-skilling to export the UK's Green Industrial Revolution

Business Green

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has become a powerful tool for raising awareness of the grave ecological threats to our planet. Now is the time for all UK businesses to look to international markets and take British ingenuity to every corner of the planet, writes International Trade Minister Graham Stuart MP.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. One day while sitting in the car, she attempted to toss a piece of gum into a nearby trash can and missed. Vartan Badalian, 28. LinkedIn | Twitter. Elsa Wenzel. Briana Buckles, 29.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

—Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.”

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. For example, on Earth Day 2019, Allbirds committed to carbon neutrality from that year forward through an internal carbon tax.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

She founded the Green Belt Movement that has led to more than 13 million trees being planted in Africa. She also serves on the board of 350.org org and is the coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. Wangari Matthai of Kenya, the first environmentalist to win a Noble Prize. Click here to see these actions.