Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A recent poll found that 60% of Americans believe gas and oil companies are to blame for the climate crisis. The poll, commissioned by The Guardian, Vice News and Covering Climate Now, sought Americans' views on the climate issue.

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Energy Central

JULY 7, 2022

Senate Minority Leader McConnell and Chief Justice Roberts are telling us something We the People need to consider as we vote in 2022 and 2024 Before climate change or any other issue of the day is adequately dealt with, the political system must be repaired.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It will take a massive war-time mobilization effort to effectively address the climate emergency, argues Saul Griffith — inventor, MacArthur genius fellow, CEO of Otherlab , and co-founder of Rewiring America , an organization dedicated to creating millions of American jobs while combating climate change.

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 10, 2024

While many complain that climate change and other environmental issues don’t get much of a look in, I often find myself wincing when they does get crowbarred in. Effectively this means that those who believe climate change is a myth are much more forthright in their views than those who have a better grasp of the science.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

But some opponents claim new nuclear power could have the opposite effect, slowing the fight against human-caused climate change just when things should be speeding up. Nuclear skeptics such as David Toke, who researches energy politics at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K., Similar challenges have been leveled against U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Almost half of UK boards spent zero hours discussing climate change this year. A third of UK boards feel little or no responsibility for climate change. These findings highlight that significant change is needed. A marked change in outlook is needed.”. Nordic boards lead the way on climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

VIDEO: Former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd speaks to Lucy Seigle about overcoming the political barriers to climate action. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said the answer to the net zero challenge was "not so much technical as political".

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sports have always been political to some degree. On this show, we speak to Danny and Steve about why they decided to be more outspoken on climate issues, about leadership and corporate responsibility, and about how sports and beer are intertwined with one of the biggest challenges of our time. Do It for the Beer.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Among the atmospheric changes listed was “climatic modifications.” Another section of the report stated that the increase of carbon dioxide “in the atmosphere is considered a potential cause of climate change.” In 1992, Eni claimed it needed more research before taking action on climate change.

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Energy Central

APRIL 10, 2024

For years, the priority of many environmentalists has been to get the public to care about climate change via data and science — to agree that we do, indeed, have a problem that needs fixing. And it’s time for the climate community to reorient toward empathy, and approach people’s pressing.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. The United Nations’ polite prose glosses over what is a truly damning report card for global climate efforts.” The planet has gotten about 1.2

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Renew Economy

MAY 23, 2022

Media outlets and big political parties ignored climate change. The post The political and media establishment ignored climate – but voters didn’t appeared first on RenewEconomy. Will they recognise their mistake, as the issue gets bigger for voters?

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In a time not so long ago, few Canadians would have said they really felt climate change. In a September poll , 60 per cent described the temperatures where they lived as hotter due to climate change, while nearly two-thirds claimed this summer’s wildfires made global warming a more urgent issue for them.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Philip Box of the UK Green Building Council discusses the fallout from the latest changes in Westminster. The PM has already begun spending his Christmas political capital at a rate of knots, clearly hoping he can get the controversy out of the way early (a tactic that Mr Cameron would say can have mixed results).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During 2022, climate and mandatory ESG reporting will be on the ballot in scores of states and localities. Excerpt from: The politics of climate change and ESG are about to get ugly.

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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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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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Energy Central

JULY 24, 2023

Just like politics, climate change is playing out both locally and globally these days. I saw a bit of it last week here in Vermont, as you probably know from the national media attention to the rain and floods that the state faced.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. But a growing concern about the climate crisis caused her to switch gears — and her research — to climate communication. How did you go from being an English professor to a climate activist?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The post Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.” Climate change” seemed to encompass more possibilities for derangements of the global ecosystem.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 15, 2020

The contrast between the rapid response to Coronavirus and policy waffling on climate change reveals (a) how citizens think of risk and how this shapes their willingness to incur costs for the collective good; (b) that politicians respect science when its recommendations serve their political ends.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

Everyone talks about climate change when it’s unbearably hot. Climate Outreach's David Powell explores how businesses can keep the conversation going - and what’s in it for them. And for the first time I can remember, everyone I was with was talking about climate change. It was a few weeks ago.

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Energy Central

JULY 13, 2022

Before climate change or any other issue of the day is adequately dealt with, the political system must be repaired. Senate Minority Leader McConnell and Chief Justice Roberts are telling us something We the People need to consider as we vote in 2022 and 2024.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

If you watched news about climate change on TV last year, chances are you saw a white man on-screen. The study found that broadcast coverage rarely mentioned the connections between coronavirus and climate change, such as how both disasters disproportionately impact people of color and lower-income communities.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

She collects anecdotes and advice from science communicators who are wrestling with all of the feelings and opinions that climate change, genetically modified foods, and vaccines tend to stir up. MYTH: If people just know the facts, they’ll change how they act. You can see this same story play out vividly with COVID-19.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now, in a new international report released on Monday, they argue the clock is also ticking on efforts to adapt to the devastating consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, climate change is amplifying human conflicts and causing widespread damage to people’s physical and mental health. David McNew / Getty Images.

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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.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2024

The election of scores of MPs with a local government background could see the UK embrace bottom-up solutions to tackling climate change, writes UK100's Christopher Hammond

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Labour MP Barry Gardiner, former shadow climate change minister, criticised Starmer’s plan to scale back the £28bn plan The waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen for the third month in a row, PA Media reports. An estimated 7.60 million patients, down slightly from 7.61 million treatments and 6.39

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 30, 2024

As the world's largest democracy heads for the polls, India's political parties have been concerningly quiet about climate change.

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