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Combating climate change: A study of embodied carbon

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A retrospective study of Portland’s iconic Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building sheds light on how the design and construction industry can do more to combat global warming.

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Blue carbon can help climate change code red

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Countries need to commit to 30x30, a plan to protect 30 percent of the world's oceans and lands by focusing on blue carbon ecosystems.

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Is carbon sequestration on farms actually working to fight climate change?

GreenBiz

There's an emerging market to pay farmers to store more carbon in the soil by using improved agricultural practices. But some scientists are questioning whether these efforts will actually help slow global warming.

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Boosting the Power of Corporate Investment in the Fight Against Climate Change

GreenBiz

Packed with insights, Boosting the Power of Corporate Investment in the Fight Against Climate Change is a deep dive into the Family Forest Carbon Program’s innovative financing strategies.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Climate change is here. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course? What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course? We see it in many ways already. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation

GreenBiz

How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation. Although many organizations have adopted ESG principles, executives and boards could do more to meet the demands of institutional investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders especially in regard to climate change risk. Nidia Martínez.

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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers.