Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

These swampy, stilt-rooted trees store massive amounts of carbon on tropical shorelines, support nurseries for a wide variety of commercially important fish species, and protect coastal areas from storm damage. Humans have lots of reasons to thank mangroves.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

The Port of Long Beach must balance its tenants’ needs against California’s carbon-reduction goals as well as its obligation to ease the burden of environmental harm on nearby disadvantaged communities. Brown later signed SB 100, which requires 100 percent carbon-free electricity in California by 2045.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Groups such as the Somerville Bicycle Committee and Mass Save hosted tables to inform and engage community members on how they could reduce their carbon footprint and make a healthier Somerville. Somerville Climate Forward builds upon work that is already being done by the City to advance sustainability and climate resilience.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Even in an urban setting, green infrastructure is vital to cool our cities, manage stormwater, and deliver air quality benefits. For example, nature can help provide near-term carbon sequestration in support of the reduction of industrial emissions.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Fort Collins directly provides a full slate of municipal services, including operating its own electric, water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. The City develops resiliency and sustainability through organization-wide systems and processes that ensure consistent employee work practices and alignment across service areas.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

“Urban trees don’t just store carbon, they reduce stormwater, they improve air, they provide energy savings in terms of heating and cooling. They reduce the costs of doing all kinds of other work, including stormwater management, air purification and water retention.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. Income is closely correlated with carbon pollution, so taxing higher, disposable incomes and wealth — especially if invested wisely — can contribute to reducing climate pollution.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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Varuna

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

While it is crucial that we start the work of reducing carbon emissions right now, we are already having to deal with the negative effects of poor quality water impacting 1 of every 3 Americans. drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater?—?as Great and all.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Silwal: By not enabling private vehicles, people are encouraged to use low-carbon modes of transportation and subsequently, greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced. If we design streets for the low-carbon modes, we will have a different outcome. It facilitates social resilience.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Enhanced roadway infrastructure safety, resiliency, and disaster planning. But just as food production and consumption are key drivers of climate change, creating a regenerative food system can help us sequester carbon in soil and create healthier waterways and ecosystems.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. He specializes in energy, climate, carbon accounting, and environmental communications. Praneet Singh Arshi.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Alaska has also become a hub for kelp farming, which the report says can help suck up carbon, reduce acidification, and create jobs. Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. It’s been called an early model of climate resilience.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . During her five years with Quantis, Bande has advised some of the world’s largest companies in the food, cosmetics and apparels sectors, helping them define science-based targets, insetting initiatives and carbon pricing approaches. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 . Lauren Phipps.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There’s good news on that front: President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have managed to pass historic climate measures that are expected to reduce the country’s carbon footprint between 32 and 51 percent by 2035, putting the U.S. California’s clean car program and the Northeast’s regional carbon cap-and-trade program are two examples.

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