Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

state is coping with the growing climate crisis. These were Carbon Emissions, the Adoption of Green Technology, Landfill Usage, Recycling and Green Policies. Overall, the top five best states concerning climate resilience are California, Maine, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts.

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The City Fix

APRIL 23, 2024

At the 43rd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2016, the Panel decided to include a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities in the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle. This achievement marked a.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

“ The Future of Workplace Sustainability Report ” explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace. ” This year Unily seemingly embarked on its own sustainability journey to actively review how they can do more as a company to reduce the impact of climate change.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. The result is that too often, the most promising climate innovations run right into a brick wall of the status quo.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Changemakers Louise Bedsworth, Heather McTeer Toney, Josh Stanbro, and Randall Winston join Elemental Policy Lab to help close the gap between technology and policy. I am thrilled that the Lab will support these seasoned changemakers as they pursue bold, innovative policy solutions to the climate crisis.”. “I

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Here’s one of our favorites: The topic of climate change seems boring, technical and not relevant for the majority of people. The solution, according to Communications Specialist and Environmental Advocate John Marshall, is improving how we talk about climate change. Everyone loves a TED Talk. It uses a simple metaphor.”

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. That is, if policymakers and innovators act quickly and equitably. Why Canada?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus On Thursday, January 4th – just four days prior to the start of the 2024 legislative session in Olympia – we’ll gather at Amazon’s Day 1 Building in Seattle to preview a critical year for carbon policy and clean energy innovation.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

Public equity asset managers drive what kinds of companies are valuable and thus have the capital to grow, to what industries retirement savings flow by default and what companies can achieve a scale that affords them outsized political and policy influence. ESG funds, including those focused on climate change mitigation, do not fare better.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change. Pat Letizia, president of Alberta Ecotrust Foundation.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Engaging in carbon offsets can help mitigate the environmental impact of activities that produce carbon emissions, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change. By investing in carbon offset projects, companies prove their commitment to environmental sustainability and contribute to global efforts to combat climate change.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many worry that a loss for Newsom would prove detrimental to both the state and national fights against climate change. On September 14, California residents will vote to either affirm Governor Gavin Newsom or elect a new governor.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means getting serious about advocating for a recovery plan that helps us build back better from the current pandemic, while tackling another global systemic threat: climate change. . The climate crisis is worsening, and it is playing out in real time as we grapple with COVID-19. that comes down to two basic steps. .

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. People around the world are increasingly aware of and impacted by climate change, which is connected unsurprisingly with a parallel uptick in associated mental health stress.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We need a "skunkworks" strategy for innovation: Innovation in water technology and business models is slow for several reasons. In general, organizations "try" to innovate from within, and water is a public health issue, so utilities can’t take risks. We can solve climate change and water and need to focus on both.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. How wrong was I?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Partner Insight: Climate innovation offers an enormous opportunity to build economic models and individual company advantage for the long term – beyond what is achievable through new technologies, according to Boston Consulting Group. This is also the best way for them to address climate risks and create new business opportunities.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies have a part to play in ambitious climate action — not least because it increasingly makes strong economic sense, writes UN Global Compact CEO Sanda Ojiambo. Today, all business leaders must become climate leaders in their own spheres of influence and raise their voices with ours. This is not an altruistic position.

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EDF + Business

JULY 21, 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns we have just 30 years to reduce emissions to the point where we have no impact on the climate. Here’s why the new business-led initiative has the potential to be truly transformative — and to shift the needle on climate change. Big name brands are at the table.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Americans are open to new climate change policies as long as they offer environmental, social and economic benefits. According to the two, many Americans are willing to embrace positive climate change policies regardless of political affiliation. This is according to social scientists Janet K.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With corporate political spending and lobbying under increasing scrutiny and a new administration advancing financially material, government-wide climate action, financial institutions have good reason to reassess their climate lobbying. They must actively support the public policies needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What do strategic innovation professionals at utilities do? Strategic innovation professionals help drive utilities’ adoption of innovative technologies and business models. Hilary Pearson, key manager of energy & environment policy at Exelon Utilities, works in the field.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry specializing in innovative solutions to environmental protection.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 25, 2021

Despite President Biden’s gargantuan spending proposal for addressing climate change, his plan sidesteps putting in place a policy that would price carbon at its social cost. The odds that his overall program will succeed, without carbon being priced at something near its social cost, are low.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Calls for action to address economic risks from worrying climate scenarios have come from natural scientists for decades - now economists are lending their voices, writes the University of Delaware's Dr James Rising. Does unmitigated climate change carry the risk of economic collapse? Natural scientists like James Hansen and E.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

We have also committed to Science Based Targets (SBTs) in line with the Paris Agreement, alongside other leading international companies that are committed to preventing the worst impacts of climate change.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Change in the potential abundance of A. Source: Mora et al.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

G20 leaders must develop clear policy and regulatory frameworks to enable the business community to help accelerate the transition to a carbon neutral world, according to a new set of recommendations published yesterday by some of the world's top business leaders.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo. Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. Carbon Negative Shot is a U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 3, 2021

Interagency Climate-Workforce Policy Specialist | CA Workforce Development Board | Sacramento. The post Interagency Climate-Workforce Policy Specialist appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability. Job Description and Duties. For more information and to apply please click here.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. ” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Facilitating technological and business model innovation will be central to achieving net zero, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. Whilst Brexit will undoubtedly remain a dominant theme in 2020, the new government will need to press on with delivering progress on the climate change and environmental agenda.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

What steps are needed to drive climate innovation and make zero-emission technologies the most affordable, accessible and attractive choice? 2021 climate action achievements. 2021 climate action achievements. He added that they must create policies such as carbon taxes to drive the demand for clean technologies.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

The racial and social disparities exposed by the September fire are emblematic of a broader picture: Communities of color, low-income people, and other marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change, according to community activists across Cascadia. But can they?

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