Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The department even acknowledged that Québec does not have mandatory funding targets, as do California and Washington—instead, the agency hitches its finding that Québec distributes benefits to overburdened communities to the existence of an overarching “Green Economy Plan.”

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Cures for Carbon: Elemental is committed to advancing emerging technologies in deep decarbonization that leverages Earth’s natural resources of air, oceans and soil to achieve necessary carbon removal levels by 2030 and beyond while fostering resilience and sustainability for communities on the frontlines.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 16, 2021

Powerful Women on the Frontlines: Ophelia Noble Imagines Justice in Southwest Washington. As a Frontline Response Fund grant recipient in 2020, the Noble Foundation helped 296 families (primarily in Clark and Cowlitz Counties) with their basic needs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Starmer said the government should be preparing now for increased flood risks and should include regional leaders and frontline services in a new taskforce, to ensure communities across England are protected from the combined dangers of flooding and Covid this winter.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But as these leaders pat themselves on the back, those on the frontline of the climate crisis look on with dismay. Once again, leaders at COP26 failed to commit to any new funds for ‘loss and damage' ­- the devastation caused by the climate crisis to lives, livelihoods and infrastructure. Loss and damage.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Black Leaders on the Frontlines: Yolanda Matthews Leads Front and Centered Coalition with Integrity and Insight. This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting Black Leaders on the Frontlines in our state who are working at the intersection of environmental, racial, and economic justice. Photo: Puget Sound Sage.

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Front And Centered

MAY 15, 2019

Although the bill did not make it through the process, we received funding for a critical component of it in the state budget: a task force that develops strategies to address environmental health disparities with the guidance of leaders from communities most impacted by pollution. Thank you so much.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

How Frontline Communities View the Economy. The groups had previously worked together on a report ( New Economy Washington: A Path Forward ) that identified the need for frontline communities to lead and to define their own vision for a just and equitable future. Phase One: A Statewide Collaboration.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 14, 2022

This is a unique opportunity for researchers to advance clean energy materials to tackle one of the hardest to decarbonise sectors that is responsible for roughly 10% of total annual emissions in the United States.”. This is essential to address given the urgency of meeting national energy and environmental challenges.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Major new international funding programme designed to help protect tropical rainforests and catalyse £850m of private sector investment. The UK government has today launched a new multi-million pound fund designed to protect tropical rainforests that cover an area equivalent to the size of Wales. In addition to protecting 2.1

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Spiritus says “sponsoring carbon offsets is a step toward environmental responsibility, not an endorsement of luxury flights” and added that “celebrities are going to take private jets regardless of what Spiritus does.” Even before the company stepped in, Swift reportedly planned to purchase offsets that more than covered her travel.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Bush administration, said she tried to publicly communicate the science behind that link, but was “stymied over and over again” by industry interests inside and outside the White House — an experience she has discussed with The Guardian and PBS Frontline. “By

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Waitrose have jointly committed $11m to a new 'responsible commodities' programme, which will offer financial incentives for farmers who commit to embracing more sustainable approaches to soy cultivation. To limit global warming to 1.5

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Now, we look forward to 2024 where we anticipate funding frontline communities to advance their planning priorities. However, the existing comprehensive planning process is not accessible or equitable for many people in frontline communities and does not address the disproportionate impacts from climate change and pollution.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

In response to our newsletter last week spotlighting extreme heat solutions , we heard from several of y’all who were curious for more. Today, I’m also asking if you would consider showing your support by making a donation to help us fund our ongoing heat coverage. for being here and reading this newsletter.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Not long after starting CEG, Milford initiated a multi-state project to work with new clean energy development funds that states had begun to create around the country – so-called public benefit funds. His work on the legal team led to the recovery of almost a half-billion dollars in state funds from the responsible chemical companies.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It requires that we use our public funds to invest in the people and communities that need the support the most. Again, funding directed to a heavy polluter and an extremely energy-intensive industry. There is $40 million from some state and mostly federal funding for weatherization and home health of low income households.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

In order to address this gap, Clean Energy Group (CEG) continues to administer and expand upon its ground-breaking Resilient Power Technical Assistance Fund (TAF). This funding represents over 150 affordable housing properties and more than 175 critical community facilities.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 13, 2020

For 5 days I observed one of our community hospitals tune its front line response. Exhausted dehydrated medical workers get infected and removed from the frontlines, resulting in greater shortage. …ended yesterday, and included funding for the COVID-19 response. Credit: Dalton DB et al. Health Care Capacity.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2021

Wangdi of Bhutan said: “Despite Covid understandably taking the headlines, climate change has been getting worse over the past year as emissions continue to rise and the lives and livelihoods on the frontline suffer.” LDC leaders say that these actions demonstrate a lack of responsibility. of GDP to 0.5%.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Black Leaders on the Frontlines: Kurtis Robinson, Fighting Wildfires and Planting the Seeds for a Just Transition. Soon, Kurtis got involved in the Safety Justice Challenge Grant funded by the MacArthur Foundation to address criminal justice reform, and the underlying barriers and practices causing the racial disparities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. Sponsorships with governments are also common, sometimes filling holes in funding for arts, education, or cultural programs. A Sea of High-Carbon Sponsorship”.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It contains 26 policy recommendations spanning four categories on how state agencies can incorporate EJ into their responsibilities. Check it out here or on the EJ TF’s information page under “Reports & Information”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Exxon and other oil majors also funded “fringe scientists” to peddle their views and funded dozens of think tanks and front groups to promote climate denial. In response, API called California’s lawsuit part of an “ongoing, coordinated campaign to wage meritless, politicized lawsuits” against the oil and gas industry.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Penycook said he was "really pleased" to take on the role, adding that "our immediate focus is ensuring the national coronavirus effort succeeds but we cannot lose sight of climate breakdown and the collective response required this decade to avert runaway global warming".

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Following are some of their responses, lightly edited, representing perspective from all four past cohorts. As our programs and offerings began to shift and events were canceled as a result of the pandemic, we pivoted to donate unused equipment and other items to help frontline medical workers and others in need.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The same week that PepsiCo announced its new ambition, the company’s foundation extended the terms of its 14-year-long relationship with the Inter-American Development Bank — with initiatives including a fund meant to promote the inclusion of women in regenerative, sustainable agricultural models in Latin America. Photo courtesy of PepsiCo.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

JUST Capital, a platform that measures corporate performance with regard to stakeholders, has compared US companies' responses to six stakeholder issues that have emerged during Covid-19. 71 per cent of BRT companies have donated to a community relief fund - though of course this tells us nothing about the magnitude.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2023

Even if we don’t think of our jobs as climate-related, most industries have climate impacts, and workers have used that fact to push their workplaces toward a more responsible relationship with the environment. She has worked with educators, postal workers, auto workers, and railroad workers, just to name a few.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Women at the frontlines are most at risk of climate-related disasters but increasingly they will impact everyone: from the factories and farmers that supply the world's food and natural resources to all businesses and their customers who rely on those same resources. If these changes pass a point of no return, it will be catastrophic.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Failure to make progress on these issues not only threatens the security of the UK's own food supply, but also imperils small-scale farmers working on the frontline of the climate crisis in low-income countries, the report argues. It also calls on the government to return to spending 0.7

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The importance of a new Loss and Damage funding facility that could help cash-strapped developing nations cope with the impacts of climate change largely caused by their richer peers was repeatedly raised by the leaders of African, Asian, and island nations as they took the plenary stage this afternoon.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 10, 2020

Each year, we find 15-20 companies that best fit our mission and fund each company up to $1 million to improve systems that impact people’s lives: energy, water, food & agriculture, mobility, and the circular economy. The portfolio team is helping companies reach commercial inflection points to help them scale and make positive impact.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Legacies of systemic disempowerment mean marginalized populations often live in ecosystems, neighborhoods, and locations experiencing the first and worst impacts of climate change (often referred to as “vulnerable” or “frontline” locations).

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

A growing body of evidence argues personal mental health is deeply connected to wider policy failures – could embedding mindfulness teaching into society improve our responses? And, in that context, we need to look at how we can change our response, and how we can change our response systems.".

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Every year, when Elemental begins the pipeline and due diligence process it raises so many thoughts for me about the responsibility, privilege, and opportunity ahead of our team that I feel. . — Antoinette West, Career Pathways Manager. • • •. Inspired yet?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Away from the frontline devastation faced by key workers, stay-at-home life was characterised by fear, loss, and unfamiliar confinement. But with just weeks to make use of the funding, local authorities had to act fast. The surreal months of the UK’s first pandemic lockdown heralded a grim new reality.

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