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How can we make climate change relevant to people?

Business Green

Business and governments need to engage closely with communities to persuade households they are part of the solution to climate change, argues Hubbub's Trewin Restorick. Across the country 269 local authorities have declared there is a climate emergency. Plus, where are the opportunities and threats?

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that consistently has lobbied against climate action and has not even signaled its intention to be part of a future net-zero economy is one thing, but more clients from carbon-intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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Big Ag Influence Over UN Food Systems Summit Criticised by Green Farming Advocates

DeSmogBlog

Companies have also been promoting the use of better technology for the application of fertilizers and pesticides, along with backing efforts to store more carbon in the soil. This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices. And some experts remain sceptical.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces First Cohort of Carbontech Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

April 28, 2021 — The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration among The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown Labs , and Fraunhofer USA , has selected 10 startups for the first year of this exciting accelerator. is a platform for negative emissions. New York City, N.Y.,

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'We must go further': Ofgem debuts Decarbonisation Action Plan

Business Green

The sweeping strategy comes in response to a chorus of criticism from green energy companies, campaigners, and politicians in recent years, who have argued Ofgem lacks a sufficiently clear mandate from government to support the UK's net zero goal and as such has at times hampered the roll out of clean technologies.

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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

GreenBiz

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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Creative pressure: Why the advertising and PR industry is in the sights of the fossil fuel divestment movement

Business Green

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that has consistently lobbied against climate action and has not even signalled its intention to be part of a future net zero economy is one thing, but more and more clients from carbon intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.