B the Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

2 in 3 People Say They Are Ready to Halve Their Consumption to Help Save the Planet A recent survey found that two in three people now say they are willing to reduce their consumption by half to avoid environmental damage and climate change. GlobeScan is part of the community of Certified B Corporations.

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3BL Media

JULY 14, 2022

Founded in 2003, Newlight is the first company to directly transform greenhouse gases into PHB, a biomaterial that the company calls “Aircarbon,” at commercial scale. Newlight’s goal is to help provide scalable, market-driven solutions to solving plastic pollution and climate change said Mark Herrema, Newlight’s CEO.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2023

Engineering News-Record (ENR) has consistently ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water in its Top 500 Design Firms issue since 2003, as well as consistently ranking #1 in water treatment and desalination. Some of the more proactive utilities are already implementing plans to comprehensively address these trends.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The two new impact investment strategies, in Asia and Latin America, are aimed at improving the production and availability of healthy food worldwide, as well as rural livelihoods, and at building resilience to climate change in the agricultural value chain.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 7, 2023

Founded in 2003, California-based Newlight produces AirCarbon, a biomaterial produced using naturally occurring microorganisms from the ocean that eat air and greenhouse gas and convert it inside of their cells. We look forward to supporting Newlight as they work to unlock new value from CO2 while addressing climate change.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2003, the United States Department of Energy created dedicated offices to address grid reliability and security. The power sources for energy expanded throughout the 20 th century to include nuclear, hydroelectric, and some renewables, but the grid and energy industries continued to be separate, isolated entities until the 21 st century.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2024

Recognizing that many DMOs may lack the resources needed to create a tourism-specific Climate Action Plan, the course will help destinations better meet traveler expectations while building community and industry resilience to the impacts of climate change. and Canada. VIEW ALL NEWS

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Manufacturing Vitamin A at scale became possible following a 1947 scientific discovery at Hoffmann-La Roche, the vitamins business of which was acquired by DSM in 2003. Traditionally, Vitamin A is derived from fish liver oil or synthesized from acetone, a colorless organic liquid compound that is highly volatile and flammable.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 23, 2023

By Christof Brandtner Systems change to address complex problems, including climate change, is hard to achieve. Urban Innovation Through Proofs of Concept Green construction—one of the biggest frontiers of climate change mitigation—offers some important lessons about turning small wins into big solutions.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

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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Edouard Stenger

APRIL 16, 2024

But an assigment for my English classes changed all that. I discovered the existential threat of climate change and the massive opportunities of renewable energy sources. Since this fateful paper, I have never stopped reading – and writing – on climate change, sustainability and our global energy transition.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

The global stocktake finalized at the 28 th United Nations’ annual conference on climate change, or COP28 , took place from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Russ George

MAY 16, 2025

A Greater Warming Than CO Alone Climate change models focus heavily on greenhouse gasesand rightly so. That early voyage was described in a 2003 Nature editorial titled The Oresmen. These clouds are especially reflective and are key contributors to marine albedo , Earths ability to reflect solar heat.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Because of their affiliation with Fairtrade, Carlixta and Francisco have received trainings about climate change and best practices for adjusting to changing weather. Climate change is a reality. The climate has changed a lot, and we have been affected.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We urge the Scottish Government and UK Government to consider the impact of other schemes; the German drink can market is only just starting to recover following the introduction of a poorly designed deposit scheme in 2003 that all but wiped out can sales, which plummeted by 96% almost overnight[v]. iv] Excluding milk bottles. [v]

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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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Sustainability Matters

JULY 3, 2022

In 2003, a meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative created the concept of ‘ESG’, or ‘environmental, social and corporate governance’. Punters want to be contributing to a proactive stance on climate change and making a positive impact on the environment.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

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.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 15, 2020

It was these tensions over CFP policy which led to regionalization efforts in 2002/2003 , bringing fishers and industry voices into policy discussions. These changes were followed up by even bigger reforms in 2013 , when the CFP decentralized and ceded its policymaking power to the regional level, bringing in even more powerbrokers.

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CIM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2023

The vote reporting template developed by the FCA’s Vote Reporting Group builds on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) ‘Form NP-X’, which details the proxy voting record of mutual funds and other registered management investment companies. Form NP-X has been a required filing since 2003 for certain types of US funds and is familiar (..)

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Figure 3 shows that oil prices were quite low between 1986 and 2003. They will tell us that the world’s worst problem is climate change, and that by working together, we can move away from fossil fuels. The system puts a “good spin” on whatever frightening changes are happening.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

Nie and her colleagues focused on three different kinds of shifts or changes in the cycle: first, a trend, such as a decrease in water in a groundwater reservoir; second, a shift in seasonality, like the typical growing season starting earlier in the year, or an earlier snowmelt; and third a change in extreme events, like 100-year floods happening (..)

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

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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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2024

From the outset, it was clear that the government of Jean Charest, elected in 2003 after two terms of Parti Québécois rule, was going to make the environment a priority. Past recipients include former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell and Adèle Hurley, co-founder of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

A 2003 study on victims of the coronavirus SARS found that patients in regions with moderate air pollution levels were 84% more likely to die than those in regions with low air pollution. In early March, ESA also said PM2.5

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 25, 2023

This month at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) Co-Chair, Carlos Nobre, presented at two panels that centered around climate change in the Amazon region. From 2003-2018, 150,000 square kilometers of forest burned.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. The UN recently warned that our efforts are insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Colleagues and I have estimated that the US military alone contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than over 150 countries, but too often discussions of the links between militaries and climate change focus only on future risks to global security in climate-affected settings.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

An analysis by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that 2023 was the hottest year in data records going back to 1850, with an average temperature of 1.48°C Climate change has made extreme weather events such as heatwaves more frequent, intense, and prolonged. C warmer than the pre-industrial average.

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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

billion more gallons of wastewater were dumped into Tampa Bay between 2003 and 2007. In 2003, a top state regulator called Piney Point “one of the biggest environmental threats in Florida history.” Under state control after the plant’s closure, 1.1

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 29, 2024

Yes, growth has brought prosperity and untold riches, but it has had significant negative side effects for the planet, including climate change, pollution and species extinction. Many commentators believe that the world should move away from measuring economic success in terms of GDP growth. None of these are captured in GDP data.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

After her swearing-in ceremony, Secretary Granholm released a video message and blog post explaining how DOE will tackle climate change by deploying clean energy solutions that deliver cheap, abundant and clean power to fuel America’s clean energy revolution.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region that dealt with SARS in 2003-2004 were best prepared to respond to COVID-19, as their specific readiness plans resulted in lower burdens of disease and death even before vaccines were introduced in 2021. Each country should determine and expand national pandemic preparedness plans. First, Prof.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 23, 2025

Originally established in 2003 as a collaborative intergovernmental initiative to promote hydrogen as a clean energy solution, IPHE has positioned itself prominently within the global energy conversation, claiming neutrality and scientific.

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