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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Food loss and waste is another big environmental topic.

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Macquarie eyes coal exit by 2024 as bank ramps up green investment plans

Business Green

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York .

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'Adapt to survive': UNEP publishes six-step guide for delivering a sustainable business

Business Green

Some corners of the corporate world have already embraced this reality, with the wave of net zero emissions pledges unleashed by companies over the last 18 months evidence of a private sector that is increasingly reckoning with the need to ensure that business better protects the ecosystems that support human life and the global economy.

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The Aftermath of Greenhouse Gases

Unsustainable

CO 2 comes from burning gas, oil, coal, and solid waste. This pollution is caused by coal and oil, cars running on gas, or the of burning waste, all of which result in tiny harmful particles being released into the air. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Realising the Triple Dividend of Resilience edited by Swenja Surminski and Thomas Tanner, 2016 This book offers a new business case for disaster risk management. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Food loss and waste is another big environmental topic.

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