Hydro-Québec - The coldest January since 2004: Tools to help customers
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Given the cold spell experienced in January.
Forest Certification: Committed to Third-Party Certification
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
PotlatchDeltic first became third-party certified to standards developed by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) in 2002 and by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) in 2004. However, SFI also requires a much broader involvement in areas such as research, community outreach, education, and climate change.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Study predicts growth in UK wine production due to climate change
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 13, 2022
New research appears to reveal how climate change is likely to increase the potential for wine production in the UK – with conditions projected to resemble those in famous growing regions of France and Germany. We found that significant areas within England and Wales are projected to become warmer by 2040 by up to a further 1.4°C
Fifth Third’s 2022 Sustainability Report Earns Four MarCom Awards
3BL Media
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Fifth Third’s 2022 Sustainability Report featured key actions and progress reports within the Company’s five Board-approved sustainability priorities: keep the customer at the center, build strong communities, deliver on commitments to employees, promote inclusion and address climate change to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.
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Over 40% of Gen Z, Millennials Would Switch Jobs Over Climate Concerns: Deloitte Survey
ESG Today
MAY 18, 2023
For the report, the 2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, Deloitte surveyed nearly 23,000 Gen Z (born 1995 – 2004) and Millennial (born 1983 – 1994) respondents across 44 countries, in addition to conducting qualitative interviews, with topics ranging from financial concerns, work/life balance, mental health and climate action.
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Ørsted Appoints Ingrid Reumert As Senior Vice President of Group Stakeholder Relations
3BL Media
MARCH 1, 2022
Ørsted ranks as the world’s most sustainable energy company in Corporate Knights' 2022 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world and is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action. Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted employs 6,672 people. billion (EUR 7.1
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Return of the original Corporate Knight
Corporate Knights
JUNE 29, 2022
But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” Benedek took a job at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he was briefly a professor.
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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 29, 2021
For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. And these new technologies are key, as solar energy plays a major role in the fight against climate change. appeared first on Renewable Energy World.
1,900th Post: Climate Change As A Wicked Problem
Edouard Stenger
MAY 24, 2018
Years ago, when I discovered the threat of climate change and the opportunities presented by solar photovoltaic energy, I thought this was pretty straightforward. Since that fateful English class in April 2004, a lot has changed and I have spent thousands of hours reading and writing about climate change.
COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet
3BL Media
DECEMBER 13, 2022
DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. Climate change inequality, contributors and sufferers, has been a key agenda item at COP for many years.
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Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance Report Earns Five MarCom Awards
3BL Media
JANUARY 3, 2023
Since its inception in 2004, MarCom has evolved into one of the largest, most-respected creative competitions in the world. The MarCom Awards is an annual, international competition that honors excellence in marketing and communication. Each year, about 6,500 print and digital entries are submitted from dozens of countries. “I
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Guest Post: As Climate Challenges Mount, the Tech to Address Them is Going Global
ESG Today
JANUARY 9, 2024
By: David Schatsky, Global Leader, GreenSpace Research & Insights Managing Director, Deloitte The response to climate change often starts with data and dialogue, but can’t come to life without technology. 1] The research found that the geography of climate tech entrepreneurship and investment is shifting as well.
Monsoon madness: how climate change is normalising extreme events
Eco-Business
JULY 18, 2023
Between 1970 and 2004, three extreme flood events occurred per year on average in India, but after 2005, the yearly average rose to 11. Rise in both land and sea temperatures has increased the capacity of the air to hold moisture for a longer time.
Blackstone Invests in Rooftop Solar Solutions Provider Esdec
ESG Today
JULY 28, 2022
Founded in 2004, Esdec develops and distributes professional rooftop solar racking and mounting systems and solutions for residential and commercial roofs. Earlier this year the firm stated that it sees an opportunity to invest an estimated $100 billion in energy transition and climate change solutions projects over the next decade.
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Blackstone, Rivean Acquire Rooftop Solar Company Esdec
ESG Today
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Founded in 2004, Netherlands-based Esdec develops and distributes professional rooftop solar racking and mounting systems and solutions for residential and commercial roofs. To date, nearly 100 million solar panels have been installed on the company’s mounting structures, and more than 3.5
Libra Group Announces New Chief Sustainability Officer
3BL Media
MAY 27, 2022
This appointment is a critical next step as we formalize our ESG commitments throughout our organization, and leverage new paradigm-shifting technologies to combat climate change and green our sectors.”. She later joined Libra Group’s New York headquarters to lead the office of the Chairman and CEO.
Nuclear is back. Dealing with radioactive waste is tomorrow’s problem.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 22, 2024
In Europe, increasing efforts on climate change mitigation, a sudden focus on energy independence after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and reported breakthroughs in nuclear fusion have sparked renewed interest in the potential of nuclear power.
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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action
Corporate Knights
JUNE 27, 2023
Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Nowhere did these by-products of economic growth appear on balance sheets. He cited the old accounting adage “What gets measured gets managed” and made it clear that the converse also applies.
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Business-led Solutions to Combat Climate Change
3BL Media
JULY 6, 2022
DESCRIPTION: July 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ - How is sustainability reporting supporting efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, or protect the oceans? In 2004, we hosted our first Investors Summit on Climate Risk, inviting all the largest investors in the world. SOURCE: GRI. Alignment in language is also important.
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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005
Gail Tverberg
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The Federal Reserve chose to fix the problem by raising the Federal Funds interest rate from 1.00% to 5.25% between June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2006. 1] The 2004 to 2006 interest rate hikes didn’t lead to lower oil prices until after July 2008. Inflation in food prices was especially a problem. Latest month shown is July 2022.
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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Here are the news that caught my interest as the annual climate change conference, COP23, is currently taking place in Bonn, Germany. It is safe to write that since Hurricanes Maria and Irma and this year’s climate horror stories , climate change is not a distant threat anymore but a day-to-day reality.
Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.
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Book review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
Edouard Stenger
MARCH 5, 2018
Pinker was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and his books are regularly featured in the best-selling lists. . Firstly, the author completely misses the mark on the topic I have dedicated part of my professional life for the past 10+ years: climate change. Conclusion.
Why raising interest rates to reduce inflation may work out very badly
Gail Tverberg
JULY 5, 2022
3] We can look back and see how rising interest rates were used to slow the world economy in the 2004 to 2006 period, and how different the economic situation was then compared to now. To try to reduce inflation, the Federal Reserve raised target interest rates in the 2004 to 2006 period and gradually brought them down, starting in late 2007.
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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Among these, climate change is becoming more dire every month and global biodiversity is collapsing right in front of our eyes. This volume has become one of my favorites among the many I have read on climate and sustainability issues since I started back to 2004 (check the list there ).
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From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 ESG Report: A Leadership Message
3BL Media
JULY 5, 2022
We recognize that climate change is bigger than us and that the financial sector has an important role to play in addressing it. In February, we published our second TCFD Report, which details our climate strategy and efforts. Our Company also responded when war broke out this year in Ukraine.
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Air Quality: How Clean Is the Air You Are Breathing?
3BL Media
JUNE 2, 2022
According to the 2004 study ‘ The effects of indoor air quality on performance and productivity ’, the effects of poor indoor air quality have a direct impact on performance and productivity. The majority of humans can agree we all have a right to access clean water, but why does this not extend to our right to breathe clean air.
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Conquering Citrus Greening: Research Collaboration Breeds New Hope
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Believed to have been introduced through imported citrus, a study by researchers at the University of Florida and Virginia Tech concluded that climate change will allow the psyllid —which thrives in temps between 60 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit —to continue to spread as global temperatures rise.
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Guest Post: Propelling the Energy Transition by Empowering Women and Youth
Sustainable Development Network
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
2] Many countries include in their economic recovery packages boosts to their climate change and energy transition strategies. From 2001 to 2004 she headed the UNIDO Office in New York in the rank of an Assistant Director General.
SDSN’s FELD Catalyst kicks off collaboration with SDSN Kenya and Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)
Sustainable Development Network
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
A growing crisis of climate change and global vulnerabilities Kenya’s food and land use systems are in a critical state. As first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, she had inspired many Kenyans and organizations that have been following her example.
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Community interest group applies for court hearing in battle against Local Plan decision in Oxfordshire
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 2, 2021
113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 on the papers. The inadequate regard paid to the effect of high housing numbers on climate change. Bioabundance announced on 1 April that it has filed a request for an oral court hearing to hear the application for a statutory review under s.113
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Global coal and oil use to peak in 2020
Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
When I discovered solar photovoltaics in 2004, the global capacity was of three gigawatts (or 3,000 megawatts if you prefer). But to conclude, while peaking fossil fuels and exponential renewable energy growth sounds like we are on our way to solve climate change, it simply is not the case as I reported in October.
Are the High Seas off the Hook?
Chris Hall
APRIL 5, 2023
International waters haven’t escaped the effects of climate change, with Australian scientists recently warning that rapidly melting Antarctic ice will slow global deep-sea currents by mid-century, prompting accelerated sea level rise. In 2020, 92.7% Experts agree that investors have been slow to act.
Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future
Richard Matthews
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. Generation has been a leader in ESG investing since 2004. Socially Responsible Investing and Sustainable Development Goals.
20 years on, I am so glad to be working in energy transition
Edouard Stenger
APRIL 16, 2024
At some point in April of 2004, I was in the last quarter of my three-year degree in international business and languages at the Burgundy School of Business. 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.
Homeownership Revisited: An Economist's Perspective
Matthew E. Kahn
DECEMBER 21, 2022
4 (2004): 1443-1479. Conclusion The modern Economy’s Big Data revolution and climate change risk both create incentives for more of us to be renters. If government steps back from insurance markets, the private sector will step up its game and insurance innovation will further spur the pace of climate change adaptation.
Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging recycling group
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Maurice Golden MSP, Shadow Climate Change, Environment, Land Reform Secretary, commented: “We want to see an ambitious and inclusive system that works well across the whole of the UK. 2004: Can sales dropped from 6.1 We must avoid this scenario playing out in the UK.”. iv] Excluding milk bottles. [v]
How Forestry Companies Prove They’re Sustainable
3BL Media
JULY 13, 2023
since 2001 and the FSC and PEFC standards in New Zealand since 2004. For example, SFI has new standards around climate smart forestry that have helped companies develop new ways to address and anticipate climate change. Rayonier has been certified by the SFI standard in the U.S.
How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent
Corporate Knights
APRIL 17, 2023
More than you’d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And certainly more than you’d expect for someone who had to leave his home in Trans-Nzoia County, on Kenya’s western border, because of flooding caused by the climate emergency.
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Turn off the Engines
Chris Hall
AUGUST 11, 2023
In a 2022 research note, Dixon commends Unilever for recognising that “system change and collaboration are essential for achieving their environmental and social goals”.
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Mainstreaming Renewables in the Caribbean Energy Mix
Sustainable Development Network
AUGUST 5, 2015
Adding to this challenge, most Caribbean nations spend as much of their national budgets on damage repair and adaptation to climate change risks as on imported fossil fuels. [2] Access to energy needs to be considered as an integral part of a climate resilient strategy." [7] Work on the project began in 2004.
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Running Short of Tailwinds for the Economy
Gail Tverberg
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
It appears to me that the temporary rise in short-term interest rates between 2004 and 2006 ultimately caused the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The fact that these rates have generally been falling has also greatly aided economic growth, since many industrial and financial loans are very short term. Note the delayed impact of the rate rise.
Life-Extending Protection for Renewable Energy Production
3BL Media
JUNE 29, 2022
Harnessing abundantly available solar energy to generate electricity is an important tool in reducing GHG emissions that contribute to global climate change. DESCRIPTION: World Resources Institute data indicates that nearly 32% of total green house gas (GHG) emissions come from the generation of heat and electricity.*.
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What happens if Indigenous people say no to mining the minerals needed to run EVs?
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
However, because of the impacts of climate change on the lands and waters in our territories, this annual bloom is no longer synchronized with the salmon’s journey up the rivers to spawn. The waxz’ethlap flowers that once welcomed the salmon home now miss the yearly migration by several weeks.
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