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Wake Up to Climate Adaptation!

Terra Infirma

The climate is changing. Even if we stopped carbon emissions tomorrow, a certain amount of climate change is already locked into the system. And yet we in industrialised nations seem to have put adaptation to those changes on the back burner. Until last week’s one with Kit England, digging into climate adaptation.

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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote

GreenBiz

Unilever has become one of the first multinational companies in the world to publish a corporate net-zero action plan for oversight by its shareholders, as it prepares to put the climate strategy to an advisory vote at its upcoming AGM in early May. Climate Summit later this year. Michael Holder. Thu, 03/25/2021 - 00:30.

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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

The scale and scope of the climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality challenges facing corporate leaders is extensive. "[We] But that takes courage," said Polman, who in 2019 created Imagine, a foundation aimed at eradicating poverty and inequality and stemming runaway climate change. Jean Haggerty. Mon, 02/15/2021 - 02:15.

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The True Power of the Climate Movement Is Now to Admit Our Own Powerlessness

DeSmogBlog

It’s far and away the most viral climate talk I’ve ever given. To admit that we are definitively exiting the safe climate space. To change the narrative from the evidently-failed ‘Yes we can’ to ‘Can we please just face up to how badly we’ve failed, and admit where we really are now’ might sound to some like ‘Giving up’.

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BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments

GreenBiz

BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments. The world's biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. . Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:00. Several big European and Asian automakers already have started down this road.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea.

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. It’s time to pivot to a response that prioritises adaptation. Recent history of an idea.

COP 130