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“It's Now or Never” on Global Warming - IPCC's Working Group III Makes Findings Public

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DESCRIPTION: The Sixth Assessment Report (AR65) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (IPCC) is nearing publication later this year after being delayed for two years. The last assessment from the IPCC, AR5, was issued in October 2014 and forecasted alarming impacts of climate change on our global society.

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What Younger Employees Want: The Chance To Do Good in the World

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While programs like these aren’t new, they’ve taken on added importance as recruiting and retention tools, with 47% of US companies offering volunteer programs in 2022 , up from 40% in 2014. today, we try to engage employees on an even deeper level.” - Hilary Smith, executive vice president, corporate social responsibility, NBCUniversal. “I

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Watershed Year for Expansion of Corporate ESG Reporting

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Part of the modernization, he explained, is that investor habits have changed and investors really do care about climate risk. The ongoing dialogue in the United States about climate change (causes, effects, actions to be taken, disclosures to be made) is not isolated. In the European Union, more populous than the U.S.

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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

Themes of sustainability, corporate social responsibility, inclusion and diversity weave through the curriculum. For an MBA course on sustainability-driven business, students examine the role of entrepreneurship in promoting social impact initiatives. Recently, the school published an employer guide for hiring refugees.

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Two Pillars for a Sustainable Dialogue

Chris Hall

The same year, An joined the company, tasked with setting up its public relations and corporate social responsibility department (CSR). Building for the future Being Singapore-based, CDL has been acutely aware of the physical impacts of climate change for decades.

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KoboToolbox: Transforming humanitarian work through voice capture and translation

Cisco CSR

In the past, these needs assessments were often carried out manually in the field, which resulted in errors, complications in coordination, and delayed response times. According to the World Meteorological Organization , climate change has driven a five-fold increase in extreme weather and natural disasters. On the Kobo horizon.

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IPCC Issues Dire Warning on Climate Change: Time Is Running Out

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DESCRIPTION: The scientific consensus is that climate change is responsible for warming of temperatures, rising seas as icebergs melt, greater intensity of storms (hurricanes, cyclones, and super rainstorms), and more such impacts on Planet Earth. And according to the experts, humans are primarily responsible for climate change.