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COVID-19 Recovery, Climate Impacts, And Co-Benefits: Stimulus Policies That Can Multi-Solve

Energy Innovation

strongly emphasize that recommendations for climate-friendly recovery policy be filtered to those that maximize job retainment and growth like R&D investments, keeping nuclear power plants open, and wind and solar power plant expansion. As such, Hanna et al.

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The problem with COP26

Low Impact

But what we’re facing is not a normal problem – it’s not hyperbole to say that it’s the biggest and most dangerous problem that humanity has ever faced, and (when combined with biodiversity loss), the only one we’ve ever faced with the potential to make us extinct. Going for a walk? Conversation? No – it means human economic activity.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

These include a growing world population, unsustainable consumption, a rapidly increasing number of people living in cities, significant inequality, continuing poverty, land degradation, biodiversity loss due to land-use change, ocean pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction as well as a global pandemic.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. 🌱 Gentian , a London, England-based biodiversity monitoring through AI platform, raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding from Ecolab, Techstars, Blu Venture Investors, gener8tor, PAX Momentum, and Undivided Ventures. Key market supply and demand indicators ended the year down.

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COP26 is over, now what? Here's what it could mean for business

Business Green

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Biodiversity and nature-based solutions. A commitment backed by $130tr in assets for the net zero transition by GFANZ, the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.

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