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Consumers Are Willing To Pay for Sustainability – Are Businesses Doing Their Part?

3BL Media

While consumer action is helpful, climate experts say the actions of businesses are far more important in reducing carbon emissions to meet the ambitious targets set by the Paris Agreement in 2016 (45% reduction by 2030 from 2010 levels and net zero by 2050).

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Can young Republicans wake their party up to climate change?

Corporate Knights

Richard Nixon, for his part, created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And in 1987, Ronald Reagan signed on to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement that helped shrink a gaping ozone hole over Antarctica. During his presidency, Roosevelt also established 230 million acres of public lands for conservation efforts.

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Towards Sustainable Global Leadership: How the IRA Catalyzes 21st Century U.S. Global Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

1990-2010) championed only by the aging “labor wing” of the Democratic Party. emissions is the IRA’s creation of a new national “Green Bank” administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The IRA’s Title VI, Section 60101 directs the EPA to create a $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).