GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Stories discussed this week (4:20). SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors. You can read both stories here and here. A corporate climate action plan, Ceres style (30:55). Learn more about what's possible in this interactive discussion at 1 p.m. Heather Clancy. Week in Review.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Even ExxonMobil, a company that has spent decades muddying the science on climate change, wrote in a recent report : “[On] a list of the biggest challenges facing humankind … addressing poverty and climate change would be at the top.”) degrees Celsius (2.7

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. But what exactly are they still denying?

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change. All the while, the effects of climate change — the heat waves, the blazes, the wildfire smoke — have only grown more obvious, and more costly.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

C, we may lose control of our climate for good—and the Climate Change Committee has already highlighted the large gap between NZS targets and delivery. C warming – omissions underlined by the High Court’s recent ruling that the UK Government’s climate strategy is “unlawful”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

This story was originally published by ExxonKnews. The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 11, 2024

EVs can scarcely stay out of the news and off social media these days, and while that much exposure for a key climate solution is positive in one respect, in another, it is — more often than not — increasingly negative. Climate change has long struggled with a news disadvantage.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the 1960s, scientists who worked for General Motors and Ford discovered that the exhaust from their cars was very likely changing the climate. We’ll talk to Maxine Joselow, the journalist who reported the story for E&E News over many months. E&E News : GM, Ford Knew About Climate Change 50 Years Ago.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The issue of companies saying one thing on climate for their own goals, and saying a different thing through their silence or trade associations, is a critical issue, right now in the U.S. I’m also working on my annual year-end wrap up ( last year’s was “How Did Business’s Role in Society Change in 2020”).

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2023

A recent study is disrupting the conventional wisdom that there is no connection between climate change and deadly tornadoes, such as the ones that tore through Mississippi over the weekend. What’s bad is it’s moving into a part of the country where people tend to [be] more vulnerable to tornadoes.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. This showcases the importance of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a vital player in addressing the Climate Emergency.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. In the documentary, Davies claims that climate activists want to impose an “austere” life on ordinary people.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

So it might come as a surprise that Robinson’s next move was a climate change PSA. Playing a TV host named Ted Rack, he invites a climate scientist on his show “You Expect Me to Believe That?” What you’re saying to me makes me want to fight you a little.” Here’s what you should say,” he instructs Drake.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A respected global voice on environmental sustainability and climate change, Hawken has consulted with heads of state and industry leaders and has spoken about his work on media platforms worldwide. It is accompanied by online platform Regeneration.com, that has the most complete listing of climate solutions in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” Professor Dana R.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

climate negotiations in Poland in 2018, she was struck by how impersonal everything felt. As a climate storyteller, educator, and social media influencer (who was featured on our 2022 Grist 50 list ), Drutman’s work heavily emphasized people and connections. Come on a climate speed date.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 The group’s findings were published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change on Thursday and garnered various responses from the climate community. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2024

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist , a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Human actions — including climate change — are killing them. One of the whales killed by a boat was a calf just a few months old.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. The typical stories of environmentally-driven collapse that you might have heard about Easter Island or the Mayan civilization? It’s just not the whole story. degrees C (5.8

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. How is climate change impacting you and your family? What are your biggest concerns? What are your biggest concerns?

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2022

The fact that heat and moisture fuel hurricanes isn’t new, but the two studies offer fresh insights into how climate change is shaping today’s hurricanes. But what we’re finding, particularly through changes in extreme weather … is that the impacts are already here.”.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

2021 already seems more full of promise for decisive progress on climate than several past years. But what great things hover on the horizon? What else can we look forward to? This story was originally published by Grist with the headline WATCH: A Just and Sustainable Future – A Live Conversation With Grist on Mar 12, 2021.

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AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s what’s exciting about AutoGrid – we are well positioned at the intersection of energy intelligence, distributed reach and software prowess to offer utilities a powerful, turnkey solution for helping to manage their load needs. What exactly are VPPs all about? What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)?

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2024

It estimates climate damages are likely to reach $38tr a year by 2050 and could get as high as $59tr. Even if the world starts to rapidly decarbonise, climate impacts are likely to knock 19 per cent off projected per capita incomes and 17 per cent off GDP by mid-century. The headline conclusions are bad enough.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. I did Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. What that means is that there’s no intention to harm but the negative consequences can be just as powerful.”

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. The endophyte is what makes the fescue robust against drought and overgrazing, but it’s also what makes it toxic. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue. Big news: Global warming is over. Just the phrase itself, though.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 7, 2021

the keys to bending the curve of the linear economy toward the circular The Climate 4.0 The UN’s 195-member-country Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sets the target year at 2050. What makes it truly the Climate 4.0 What makes it truly the Climate 4.0 It is our view that Climate 4.0

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

How can the media best communicate the impacts and implications of climate change? I recently learned that the phrase climate change was mentioned 12,715 times in television shows on UK channels during 2020. The appetite is there: Ipsos Mori data suggests 84 per cent of the UK public is concerned about the climate.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2024

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist , a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Human actions — including climate change — are killing them. One of the whales killed by a boat was a calf just a few months old.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events. How To Divest.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2022

Joshua Studholme was finishing his doctoral program in physics and math at Lomonosov Moscow State University when his thesis advisor told him a story about Queen Victoria, the monarch who ruled the British Empire for the better part of the 19th century. Sometimes taking the average is a bad idea,” Studholme said. “If

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

She and her colleagues followed all the conventional advice about what to say, but something felt off. Listening to them present steps of what he should have done to protect his home from fire had been traumatizing. That really forced me into a reckoning about what science communication is,” she said.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5 Talking climate. New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2023

The world’s oceans have reached their warmest levels in modern history, outpacing climate forecasts and alarming scientists. Climate Change Institute / University of Maine “The oceans are enormous, so they don’t warm very quickly ordinarily,” Robert Rohde, a physicist at the environmental data science nonprofit Berkeley Earth, told Grist.

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