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Understanding Delhi Air Pollution Crisis: Buildings, Air Quality Index, and Contributing Factors

Econaur

Delhi’s persistent struggle with air pollution has been making headlines, with the air quality index (AQI) hitting alarming levels. While various factors contribute to this crisis, buildings emerge as a significant contributor, accounting for nearly 70% of the pollution, according to the World Health Organization.

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How old is that microplastic? A new way to estimate the age of microplastics in the upper ocean

Envirotec Magazine

“This degradation level can be measured using the change in the material’s molecular weight and something called the carbonyl index. Simply, when polyethylene degrades its carbonyl index increases and molecular weight decreases.” ” Of course, that’s not enough.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

For years, seven of the top 10 companies on the Dow Jones Index were oil companies until 2016 when most fell out of the top 10, leaving only Exxon. Extreme weather events are the biggest contributor to power outages and will increase with climate change, which the Department of Energy estimates costs the U.S. Contributors.

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'Dramatic ambition gap': No major G7 stock index aligned with Paris Agreement climate goals

Business Green

Companies in the leading stock indexes of the G7 economies are on average planning for almost 3C of warming, despite growing numbers of net zero emission pledges. However, it also found that indexes with the lowest temperature pathway also tended to have more companies that have set science-based climate goals.

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Sustainable shopping is healthy, even amid a pandemic

GreenBiz

NYU Stern Business School’s 2020 Sustainable Share Market Index shows shares of sustainability-marketed products grew significantly during the week of March 15, and continued to maintain that increased share through mid-June. Contributors. What’s more, it’s not all just happy talk. Pull Quote. Daniel Aronson. Consumer Trends.

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Building a Sustainability Index for Our Times

Climate 4.0

Building A Sustainability Index for Our Times “Bending the linear economy towards the circular” is a nice way to visualize how humans must become far less wasteful and cognizant of how the damage we inflict on the Earth will destroy us in the end. So creating the actual Tau Sustainability Index is an ongoing project.

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Manager, Higg Index

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Manager, Higg Index | Sustainable Apparel Coalition | Remote. The SAC was incorporated as a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization and launched the groundbreaking Higg Index suite of tools in 2011. Support industry stakeholders in submitting data into the Higg Product Tools through the MSI Contributor. The Opportunity.

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