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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

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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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

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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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. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Last month, Nestlé announced it will sweeten its climate-mitigation efforts with $3.6

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

What seemed to resonate best in follow-up discussion was the possibility of analogizing our climate crisis to the issues of forced labor and LGBTQ rights, regarding which corporations have been willing to embrace a relatively simple and effective moral framing, language, and demand. .