Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This is our third annual report on funding trends in climate change mitigation philanthropy and covers seven years offunding data from 2015 to 2021. … Continue reading Funding trends 2022: Climate change mitigation philanthropy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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Sense and Sustainability

DECEMBER 8, 2021

However, the fear and apocalyptic nature of the impending impacts of climate change are not holding back several countries, who are emerging as leaders. Some are the usual suspects, championing climate mitigation, while others are taking a more pragmatic approach and demonstrating what adaptation and innovation look like.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2024

The climate-change argument is central to the LNG debate in Canada. It is impossible to justify expanding LNG trade if the resulting production and consumption of natural gas would be inconsistent with efforts to mitigate the growing climate crisis. The climate-change argument is central to the LNG debate in Canada.

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

Once they are implemented, large public and private companies that do business in California will begin reporting their impacts on climate change throughout their supply and value chains, as well as the steps they are taking to prepare their businesses for the risks of climate change.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 7, 2022

Late last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Working Group II released its latest report , warning of increasing extreme weather events and the need for urgent and ambitious adaptation. As the IPCC report finds, gender is one of the key factors that compounds vulnerability to climate change impacts.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Recognizing that climate change could pose long-term risks, many funds are now reporting under the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a global voluntary framework established in 2015.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Globally, climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. If we do not take action to address climate change, the consequences will be severe, leading to widespread food insecurity, displacement and conflict. But climate change is not the only critical issue.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2022

Logitech came twelfth in last year’s list, but as the FT notes, “companies are being pushed to raise their game even further on climate change…[so] this year’s FT-Statista Climate Leaders list attempts to reflect the tougher environment by tightening the rules for the biggest greenhouse gas emitters”.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking more carbon out of the air than they release into it, a process that has moderated the impact of climate change.

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Matthew E. Kahn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. See this 2015 paper set in the United States. How Does a “Climate “Crisis” Emerge? Here we agree.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JULY 26, 2023

A new study shows that efforts to reduce methane emissions are needed immediately if we are to meet global climate change goals. C above pre-industrial levels.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The world is watching as tens of thousands of leaders gather for the 28 th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, from November 30 to December 12. Climate change poses an unparalleled challenge that necessitates collective effort – a challenge no single entity can tackle alone.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: By now, the alarms over climate change seem to be sounding nearly every week. For Flanagan, the evidence that climate change can cause catastrophic consequences came in the powerful example of Hurricane Katrina. “I Cooper launched Rheaply in 2015. SOURCE: Morgan Stanley.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Flooding in Perth, Scotland in 2015, when the River Tay burst its banks. Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. Verdict: This book shows that reversing climate change is not a technological one as we have the solutions to do so. – .

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Matthew E. Kahn

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Since its first publication in 2015, the Fortune Change the World list has honored dozens of companies that are tackling the threats to our planet through innovation, new business models, and unexpected partnerships. Understanding the human impact of climate change requires companies to be in relationship with the problem.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

A convoy of tractors was making its way to a Dutch government building in February when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out his support for farmers revolting against the EU’s regulatory push to drive down climate emissions: “I’m pro-environment, but I support the farmers! Farming has no material effect on climate change.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021. Download the document.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an additional 78 million people into chronic hunger by 2050, annual global investments in agricultural research and development will need to increase by US $2 billion (or by 120%) between 2015 and 2050,… Read more →

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2023

However, this is likely due to a high level of poverty rather than a shift in policy or lifestyle – a reminder that many of the world’s developing countries have contributed least to the climate crisis. In 2015, municipal leaders set out to make their city resilient to the climate crisis.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? C Supplier Engagement Guide, we outline how to engage suppliers to take climate action. How can technological innovation mitigate climate change?

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We strive to maintain a culture of sustainability throughout our organization and work collaboratively across internal stakeholder groups and functions to identify ways to mitigate risks, increase operational efficiencies and reduce our environmental impacts, including those related to resource use, waste management and climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2015, the FSB established the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) (at the request of G20 leaders) to consider the financial stability risks associated with climate change.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Alan AtKisson. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. Now it is 2021. Virtuous cycles can turn vicious.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2022

California’s giant sequoias have faced particularly fierce wildfires since 2015, the result of climate change and a lack of frequent fire over the prior century, according to the National Park Service. Read the full story in the New York Times.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ceres talked with Waxman about Green Century’s focus on deforestation and its growing importance as a driver of climate change. It comes as deforestation — and associated greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts — are mounting in many regions of the world. What follows is a lightly edited interview.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 10, 2024

C target was implemented following the Paris Agreement in 2015 but there are still considerable gaps creating hurdles to overcome to meet the ambitious goal. C threshold in the coming decade if urgent action isn’t taken to reduce CO2 emissions, threatening people, wildlife and ecosystems with drastic effects from climate change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Whether we say climate justice, climate equity, the intersection of climate change and people or the social impacts of climate change, one thing is clear: Business has a role to play in addressing the structural inequity that causes low-income populations and communities of color to bear the brunt of the climate crisis. .

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JUNE 20, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), released just prior to an international climate convention in 2015, explicitly stated that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions were the highest in history, with clear and widespread impacts on the climate system.

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ESG Today

MAY 13, 2024

The new funds also form part of Fidelity’s commitment to developing thematic fixed income investment solutions that address climate change, biodiversity, water, and social issues, according to the firm.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Investors are warming to opportunities stemming from climate change, and other takeaways from COP28. COP28, the latest United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change, delivered mixed results on some key agenda items but provided new insights into climate-related opportunities and the initiatives needed to implement them.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

India’s first NDC was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, with goals to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources, and create additional carbon sink of 2.5

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