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Safeguarding Groundwater Resources: A View From Denmark

3BL Media

While levels of water use vary significantly throughout the world, 1 protecting groundwater resources is a global necessity, especially with population growth and the impacts of climate change, such as more intense and frequent floods and droughts. Climate change also affects groundwater resources around the globe.

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The Green Star rating system explained

CIM

Environmental systems such as the Green Star rating, GRESB and NABERS have been created to encourage building owners, operators and tenants to improve sustainability and make sure the built environment plays its part in curbing climate change. Is Green Star a voluntary program? What is the difference between Green Star and NABERS?

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Climate Emergency Risks Stranding Women

Chris Hall

in 2021. However, one of the largest barriers to achieving gender equality beyond the boardroom happens to be one of the biggest existential threats facing humankind: climate change. Research forecasts that 80% of those displaced by climate change will be women. in 2022 from 22.6%

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5 Strategies to Establish Systems Thinking in Companies

B the Change

After producing the car from 1996 to 2003, GM terminated its production based on a narrow assessment of short-term profitability. If GM had used systems thinking in 2003, it might not have decided to discontinue the EV-1. Executives might have understood that broad changes in society would inevitably lead to demand for EVs.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. billion.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis.

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