Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Academic study condemns managers as “stewards of the status quo”. . Serious doubts about the environmental stewardship credentials of three of the world’s largest asset management firms have been raised by academics at City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), part of City, University of London.

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Gail Tverberg

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Then, in 2014, when oil prices suddenly fell, the dominant story suddenly became, “There is plenty of oil. The world’s biggest problem is climate change.” ” In fact, there was no real reason to believe that the shortage situation had changed. Low prices are driving them out of business.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to CNBC , most money managers who use ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors in their investment analysis have focused on the E, or climate change, as their leading criteria for their decisions. Reducing carbon emissions and mitigating the risks of climate change for investors is a major accomplishment.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 3, 2018

Further, the region is expected to bear some of the most devastating consequences of climate change-drought, changing patterns of rainfall and increasing frequency of extreme weather patterns which are particularly critical for a region where the majority of the population depends on rain-fed agriculture for survival.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Climate change, renewable energy , and the electrification movement are the intertwined drivers behind the surging interest in battery energy storage systems (BESS). Wind and solar power help resolve the climate crisis by replacing fossil energy with zero-emission electricity, but these resources are, by nature, intrinsically variable.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 Elsa Wenzel.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

See my academic paper, Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. The dip in the debt to GDP ratio in the 2014-2019 period seems to correspond to the period of lower oil prices shown in Figure 1. Educators have new courses to teach and new subjects to write academic papers about.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The virtual event reflected on progress made towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of the transformations that have taken place in education, academic curricula, research, and technological developments following the historic 1992 Rio Summit.

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Russ George

APRIL 5, 2021

“Our findings suggest instead that more attention to reducing fishing and addressing other environmental changes, including climate change, will be important for allowing recovery. Some years ago, 2014, I prepared this ‘blog post’ as an open letter to The Pew Charitable Trusts. There is an alternative.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

Moreover, the maternal mortality ratio [1] has declined by 45 per cent worldwide, while more than 71% of births were assisted by skilled health personnel globally in 2014, an increase from 59% in 1990. The MDGs aimed mainly at human rights and equality and they have played an important role in fighting poverty, hunger and disease.

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