GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nevertheless, the quality of global water resources is increasingly coming under pressure due to population growth, economic development and climate change. Conversely, the domestic and livestock sectors drive organic and pathogen pollution worldwide”, Jones remarks.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. And the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the world struggles to combat climate change, the need for a sustainable economy is more urgent than ever. It’s leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions which are affecting our ecosystems and contributing to climate change. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 27, 2021

“President Biden is putting climate progress front and center with bold and decisive executive actions that will begin his administration’s efforts to reduce climate pollution and put us on track to ensuring cleaner, healthier communities. The Defend Our Future Team. ###. Connect with us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. What receives far less attention, however, is the climate impact of these agrochemicals. According to PANNA , the assessment is the first in-depth scientific review of the relationship between pesticides and climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Despite years of progress by leading corporations toward ESG, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental health and safety (EHS) and sustainability goals, the reality is that board members overseeing these companies are still trying to discern how all of this applies to them. Pull Quote.

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Front And Centered

MAY 3, 2024

The driving force behind #EarthDeservesMore was to highlight the stories of our members: people and communities who advance environmental justice and confront climate change every day of the year, not just on a holiday like Earth Day. Below, we’ve provided a recap of some of those events, including photos and videos.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 16, 2024

The climate crisis threatens civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of present and future generations and, ultimately, the future of humanity.” Let’s all contribute to a present and a future where climate and environmental justice isn’t just a dream, but a living, breathing reality. Their mission?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 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.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? The world has changed a great deal since.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. It has triggered a warning from the head of the NHS in England that “the climate emergency is in fact also a health emergency”, while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said this is a “public health crisis”. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2021

In hot, dry New Mexico , climate change is already playing out. And it’s hitting people of color especially hard, say climate change experts. Several organizations are planting trees in lower-income areas of the city, but it will be a while before saplings can provide shade. It’s kind of happening.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Now, more than 30 years later, the critical moment is upon us to confront global climate change. These are some of the young climate leaders who are pushing hard for environmental action. Our own kids.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In its official climate policy position , the U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims to support “an approach that rises to the challenge of climate change.” Yet the Chamber is currently working to eliminate one of the most effective climate and public health protections on the books in the United States.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

Today, Kawahata focuses on psychology as a tool to push the climate movement toward hope and systemic change, and travels as a speaker and consultant. She says that the number one question she hears from the people she talks to is what they can do to help combat climate change. “Those are wins.

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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. Climate change, deforestation, droughts, saltwater contamination , water scarcity, increases the burden on these women.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

Despite the vast economic challenges and immediate public health crisis from COVID-19, European companies and political institutions are restating the importance of tackling the climate emergency. Organizers of the COP26 Glasgow summit have stressed that the decision to postpone is a logistical one. Beyond Profit.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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Grist

MAY 7, 2024

And in that way they signal about the health of the ecosystem.” Read Next In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics Lois Parshley “I think there’s a lot of parallels between predator ecology and parasite ecology,” Wood said. It was climate change.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will. It’s not complicated,” Thiaw said. “It

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Companies Must Find the Courage to Back Up Statements on Climate Action. The world’s largest companies are rapidly raising the bar on their commitments to tackle climate change. The good: Three-quarters have said that the science of climate change is real. by Andrew Winston and Paul Polman.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 27, 2020

The climate change debate is often dominated by doom and gloom headlines. Widespread electrification of energy, industry and transportation could create huge numbers of new jobs and dramatically reduce climate changing emissions. She holds a degree in political science with a specialization in public policy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In a statement responding to the summit’s shortfalls, Greenpeace International Executive Director Mads Christensen said that lagging governments should expect to be held accountable “on the streets, in the courts and at COP28,” the last a reference to the upcoming international climate treaty conference in Dubai.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

With the current social and political climate and the broader push for sustainability across all sectors, it is without a doubt that sustainable finance is integral to propelling us into the greener future. There are challenges in terms of getting the right price, but I think that it’s a very powerful tool in mitigating climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In this article, we discuss the tie between climate change and affordable housing, the role that legislation and government funding plays, along with a list of top U.S. organizations working to build greener, more affordable communities for all. Climate Change and Affordable Housing. One fact is unwavering however.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog. Ayumi Fukakusa agrees.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2020

But what if I told you that not all climate tipping points are bad? A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences outlines the positive “tipping elements” needed to address climate change — society-wide shifts that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In April 2023, Total Energies sued Greenpeace France and climate consulting firm Factor-X, claiming that a recent joint report accusing the French oil giant of vastly under-representing its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions contained “false and misleading information.” A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Thinking about these three focus areas, are they enough to infer whether an organization is sustainable or not? For instance, suddenly sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and achieving gender equality.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Electric trucks provide an opportunity for organizations with fleets to fundamentally transform the environmental impact of their operations. Share a transition plan with clear milestones and that priorities community health. Companies need to use the most powerful tool they have to fight climate change: their political influence.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Hello, and welcome to Part 2 of our series on personal action in the face of climate change. Montana is one of three states that has established a right to a “ clean and healthful ” environment in its state constitution.) United States, also organized by Our Children’s Trust, will soon become the second.)

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