Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

Bill Gates stated in his book How to Prevent a Climate Disaster , “Making steel “The question, ‘What’s your plan for cement?’ She has been involved in oil, gas and mining projects and businesses in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. As an example, steel production along accounts for around 10 percent emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The next step is to translate these political commitments into on the ground action. ??. Last month, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange. Second, nature, safeguarding ecosystems, protecting natural habitats and keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. The first Green Simba bond.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Echoing those unrealized book chapters, last year Kivalina joined forces with several Louisiana tribes that were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Credit: Laura Mangan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

testing the moral character and political imagination of countries better prepared to survive an overheated planet. Candé traveled by car across central Africa to Agadez, Niger, once called the Gateway to the Sahara. Candé then headed to Libya, where he could book a cheaper raft to Italy.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

In Liberia, over 60 youth organizations collaborated to create a collective position on the nation’s climate goals, urging political leaders to act. Despite the despair, youth groups have embraced their awareness of these implications and fostered progress through intergenerational unity.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

He holds a degree in Urban Planning and another in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles. She broadened her cultural understanding by teaching in South Africa and East Harlem and developing education technology and augmented reality products in New York and Shanghai.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

With social distancing in full force this Earth Day , the 50th anniversary of this environmental movement is certainly one for the history books. Topics ranging from climate finance and agriculture to circular economy and politics will be discussed and can be viewed virtually via the partnership program We Don’t Have Time.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

The political message they sent was key. Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa were among African nations planning $783bn in clean energy, transport and efficient infrastructure. The new batch on the UN's books suggests an increased level of rigour, costing and analysis. Some were short and vague.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The investigation assessed the employment history and affiliations of 565 bank directors from the boards of major retail banks in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, China and Japan. Systemic problem. She also worked for state-run energy company Eskom, where fellow board member Thulani Gcabashe served as CEO from 2000-2007.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. What we have is an empty bucket,” Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa, said in a statement last year. Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2 That’s what’s at stake now. “We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In between all that, and various other advisory roles besides, the 68-year-old also managed to write five books on climate and energy. That's important for the politics of land up here, the drive for land equality and everything else." Scotland's new land grab?

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance, said: "While this report should set off alarm bells around the world, the worry is that politicians will yet again hit the snooze button.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing about building a new kind of economy, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. These are large-scale political interventions.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ideas are shared between member think tanks via various publications as well, including the quarterly Freedom’s Champion magazine, a Latin America podcast “Hablemos Libertad,” and various books in both English and Spanish ( even a cookbook! ). conservative politics — are all members). So, he took the show on the road.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

Warning* Tomorrow the @washingtonpost plans to "cancel" me and my new book Fossil Future by publishing a 100% slanderous hit-piece labeling me as "racist." In general political correctness prevents us from having honest debates.”. He also revealed on Twitter that big donors have planned to buy his book in bulk. .

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Low Impact

MAY 23, 2021

No-one sensible, of any political persuasion, speaks out against them. There are currently two main perspectives when it comes to political economy, that are divisive and growing further apart, exacerbated by social media. Mutualism is politically neutral, involving non-extractive businesses in a free market. I’m a mutualist.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Davis’s book can also be accessed as a pdf here. When Europeans colonised Africa, they found it difficult to get Africans to work in their plantations if they already had small farms. Hedge fund manager Michael Burry (featured in the book and movie ‘the Big Short’) and others, notice that a lot of MBSs are full of sub-prime mortgages.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2023

One of the products of that research is a new book of essays , edited by Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, also of the Translational Institute, titled Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region. Underlying the book is the unequivocal urgency of moving away from fossil fuels in this part of the world.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

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. Elizondo abandoned his plan for a career in the public sector and booked a one-way ticket to San Francisco, with no job and nowhere to live. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices. She’s also a prolific writer and the editor of a fortnightly magazine on politics and environment, Down to Earth , published in New Delhi. She’s also a commissioner for the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty. Sustainable Development Goal 7.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The second camp sees a growing role for fossil fuels as the global population expands and hundreds of millions of people seek to join the energy-intensive middle classes, especially in Asia and Africa. In that case, 2019 would go into the books as the peak year: from 2020 it will only decrease with demand. The shift involves big risks.

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

Cheney had read a book called Twilight in the Desert , by Matt Simmonds, about peak oil. Wasn’t he trying to develop a new currency to replace the dollar in North Africa? They’re going into Africa and hoovering up assets, in the same way that the US did before them. Back in the days of Bush and Cheney. So we’ve reached Trump.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. Ultimately, today’s global political situation is, at best, unpredictable. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine!

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In May 2021, Brown tweeted out an article by Bjørn Lomborg – author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It , books that downplay the risks of global warming – about how “exaggerations about climate change” are “destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future”. August Lee Pfluger (R-TX) and Rep.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Women are at the Forefront of Historic Change in the US Women are claiming their rightful place in the halls of political power and they are changing the world in the process. More women than ever have taken to the streets to make their voices heard and an unprecedented number of women are vying for political leadership.

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