GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We’ve hired you an executive coach to help you develop strategies for dealing with the toxic smoke.”. Throughout this Sustainable You series for GreenBiz, I have encouraged you to tend to your personal sustainability so you can do great work on behalf of the planet. “Don’t worry. We have a plan.”. What will you do?” No,” she said.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Venture and growth form the foundational layer of the climate capital stack, setting the stage for subsequent project finance and debt layers to finance the best solutions, and cross the valleys of death into broad deployment. 2024 is looking to be a critical year as climate tech continues its journey from the lab to large scale deployment.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because of our scale, we know it's our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept. Deonna Anderson.

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Grist

JULY 25, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. An MRI scan revealed he had developed encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

New CDP report reveals widespread concern over escalating urban climate impacts. Four out of five cities faced 'significant' climate hazards this year, while a quarter expect to face 'high-risk' climate hazards that are more intense and frequent by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A global survey of chemical scientists from across industry and academia found the majority (84%) are eager to do more to improve the environmental sustainability of their lab work, with 63% having already taken steps to reduce their environmental footprint in the last two years.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Pathways to Net Zero – Circular Economy Strategies for Climate Action A circular economy is a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops. How did we get here?

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Greentown alum Kula Bio , which develops a sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer, closed a $50M Series A. Greentown alum Biobot Analytics announced a new partnership with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Revterra was accepted to the 2021-2022 IgniteX Climate Tech Accelerator. Awards + Recognition.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The World Economic Forum (WEF), in partnership with four global organisations, is launching the Toolbox of Solutions to drive urban decarbonisation. Consisting of over 300 case studies, the platform emphasises electrical grid health as a core component for cities to meet net zero.

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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. Joyner’s home sits in a cozy loop of houses in a small Northampton County town.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Clearly, there’s a tremendous opportunity to rethink and improve our entire food system to address both its negative climate and social impacts.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York. We’re back from a brief summer break. Are you going to be in town?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Programmes bringing together UK science and developing nations will aim to help enable marine habitat recovery. A series of UK-led projects that will bring together British scientific expertise and developing countries to assist the recovery of the world's oceans have been handed £16.2m

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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. Any further delay” in global action, the report says, “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”. “Any

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. percent , three times higher than the typical rate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

UK government announces 45 countries have signed up to new coalition designed to accelerate efforts to expand nature based solutions to the climate crisis ?. We need to put people, nature and climate at the core of our food systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Future plans to tackle the climate change’s impacts on food security must integrate local knowledge to help preserve the Earth’s critical zone, experts have warned. The critical zone is the thin layer of the planet’s surface that stretches from the roots of drinking water aquifers to the tops of plants and trees.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse. Myst AI: Smarter energy forecasting from "non-stationary" data.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. Funded by the European Union among others, this brilliant initiative focuses on finding actionable solutions to this global issue. Have you read? We need strong political commitment.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2021

Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series about the Ceres Roadmap 2030, a vision for sustainable business leadership in this crucial decade. On top of that reckoning came a series of brutal killings of African-Americans engaged in everyday activities of jogging, shopping at a convenience store and sleeping at night at home.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. Gender equality is a basic, fundamental human right; however, over half the global population still faces gender based economic, social and legal discrimination. Global Gender Inequality. What is SDG 5? and across the world. and across the world.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Clarity, a Series A cleantech startup, is looking for an experienced Demand Generation Manager to advance our mission of equipping the world with the tools needed to solve the global air pollution crisis. Hardware Development Engineer. Software Development Engineer. Click the link to apply: Demand Generation Manager.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

World leaders announce new biodiversity commitments as they declare upcoming nature summit a global priority. Leaders said an ambitioius new global accord was urgently required "in the face of an escalating nature crisis that is threatening health, food security, and livelihoods, while undermining climate action and sustainable development".

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Ahead of London Climate Action Week, Mayor urges businesses and politicians to ensure momentum is maintained in run up to delayed COP26 Summit. The climate emergency remains one of the biggest threats we face," he added. "As

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Major new report argues enhanced environmental protection would deliver a massive 'win-win' for the global economy. Stronger safeguards for the natural world would deliver a long list of economic and social benefits while preventing a potential $2.7tr hit to the global economy, according to a new report released yesterday by the World Bank.

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Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

In November 2002, a 46-year-old man from the Chinese coastal province of Guangdong developed a fever and struggled to breathe. More in this series. For pandemics and climate change, voluntary measures aren’t enough. Coronavirus postpones major climate plan in Congress. Marooned by that virus?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By contrast, camera and satellite-based solutions can take hours or even days to identify a fire because they rely on the smoke plume and heat developing enough to be detected from a long distance. By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. And a handful of local groups are doing just that.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Prince of Wales has today launched a 10-point pandemic recovery charter that challenges businesses to "put nature, people and the planet at the heart of global value creation" over the next decade, in a move backed by scores of major corporates high profile names such as including Unilever, BP, and BlackRock.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

CBI chief says it is 'not acceptable' for businesses to sit on the sidelines amid 'seismic' challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss and Covid-19.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 7, 2022

US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ingredients. Fyto will use the new funding to scale commercially, grow its team, and eventually develop its plants for applications beyond dairy farms.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate the ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Plenaries, forums and fireside chats will focus on a wide variety of issues including macro issues like shaping the global recovery to the need for meaning and advice on how to run a purpose driven business. It will also feature segments on trailblazing women in 2020 and prioritizing health to rebuild the economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Formula E's Alejandro Agag argues the pandemic and the global suspension of sport offers a warning of the urgent need to address the climate crisis. The global health emergency caused by the Covid-19 outbreak has been a very unsettling situation for all of us. Why is the climate relevant to this crisis?

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