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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

When Andrew Benedek sold his water treatment company, Zenon Environmental, to General Electric in 2006, he didn’t intend to start another company. But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. million subordinate voting shares.

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Inogen Alliance Presents at COP29 in Azerbaijan

3BL Media

Blue Zone events: WATER RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. This SVA framework, designed to evaluate the effects of climate change on water resources—from supply chains to distribution networks—has been applied in over 800 locations globally.

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Global Electronics Council Announces 2024 EPEAT Purchaser Award Winners and Their Impacts

3BL Media

passenger cars off the road for a year, accompanied by reductions in energy use, hazardous waste, water consumption, and more. 400 metric tons of hazardous waste, the equivalent to the weight of 3,300 refrigerators. GEC’s work is focused on high-impact sustainability issues, such as climate change and product circularity.

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Bush administration that took little interest in regulation or climate change. DuPont may have hired her in the hopes of boosting its troubled environmental image, but in her 12 years with the corporation, Fisher surprised many by bringing in changes that led to notable reductions in pollution.

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Cashing In on Sustainability: A Blended Finance Program Aims to Fight Climate Change by Catalyzing SME Investment in the Peruvian Amazon

James Militzer

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. These losses have only accelerated.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds. Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. As the U.S. As the U.S.