Corporate Knights

MAY 27, 2024

During his two decades in Parliament, Poilievre voted in favor of the environment and climate action just 13 times, DeSmog calculates based on a comprehensive list detailing every House of Commons vote he’s made as a federal politician. There’s no indication Conservatives will do anything other than destroy climate policy,” May said.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But, can artificial intelligence make a positive contribution to understanding the problems caused by climate change too, problems gradually turning into a crisis? In fact, AI can help climate researchers find solutions in many areas such as air pollution. Image courtesy of Flickr. Originally published by S&S on Nov.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 14, 2017

Presentation of the SDG Index and Dashboards 2017 in Spain: “Spain is still far from exercising leadership in sustainability” Download the full SDG Index & Dashboards 2017 Download the Country Profile for Spain Watch the full event here. Madrid, July 12, 2017.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 21, 2023

A landmark climate-change case won by a group of 16 children and youth in Montana last week is echoing across Canada, where young people have mounted their own lawsuits in the hopes of compelling governments to take more decisive action to slow the rate of global warming. Most of the cases are in the United States.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor.

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Impakter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In 2017, UN Chief António Guterres opened the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) issuing a stern warning to his audience; as a result of climate change, “extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and severe.” Earth is Dying: UN Chief Accuses World Leaders of Zero Action.

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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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Energy Central

MARCH 31, 2022

As climate change dries out the American West and much of the rest of the world, farmers are responding by growing more crops in greenhouses. In Colorado, where I live, from 2012 to 2017, the total number of greenhouse farms increased by 47%.

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Climate Change 105

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But it’s not going to turn pension funds into climate activists. Widened horizons Although the paper is predominantly focused on climate change, its findings may be extended to other sustainability themes, such as nature.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A June medical study links air pollution and extreme heat from climate change to pregnancy risk that disproportionately affects Black women. This reality is why poll after poll shows that BIPOC communities care more about climate change and strongly support action. . Second, ask who is affected and what could go wrong?

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: MSCI has selected Schneider Electric to develop and help implement the company’s own climate action program. Schneider Electric’s climate change advisory services to be powered by MSCI ESG data. SOURCE: Schneider Electric. LOUISVILLE, Ky.,

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Matthew E. Kahn

AUGUST 11, 2021

In a series of pieces, I have explored how the for profit insurance industry can accelerate climate change adaptation progress. Here is my 2017 co -authored Harvard Business Review piece. Here is my recent RMS interview.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2024

According to the landmark 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate change mitigation study, scenarios that limit warming to 1.5°C We were pioneers in the development of direct air capture technology and launched our first commercial facility in 2017.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In the two years since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement , what progress has the world made on climate change? More about these and other important announcements can be found in the Global Yearbook of Climate Action 2017. SDSN is especially grateful to Enel , for its support of the event.

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Russ George

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Over the past two decades, the loss of bright marine clouds has provided as much or even greater forcing of global warming and climate change as all of humanity’s fossil fuel emissions. The post Ocean Pasture Collapse Causing Global Dimming Driver Of Climate Change appeared first on Russ George. 30, 2012 [link].

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 11, 2023

These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-related emissions according to the most recent figures from 2017) and climate change. About a quarter of the world's electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas. billion tonnes each year.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2024

This year’s list, compiled by the Financial Times and market research company Statista, recognizes European businesses whose Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity fell the most between 2017 and 2022. Trane Technologies is uniquely positioned to lead the movement to tackle climate change and empower its customers to decarbonize.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The carbon sequestration study—which could provide a seminal moment in the battle against climate change—was announced in May by the Friends of RGV Reef, a non-profit that created the reef in 2017, and researchers at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), led by Dr. Kline.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MAY 30, 2023

Some islands saw their population drop to as low as 15 individuals, but conservation efforts by the Federal government restored numbers by 2017. The decrease in genetic diversity reduces the foxes' ability to adapt to future challenges, such as climate change and introduced pathogens, putting their survival at risk once again.

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Climate Change 71

3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To blunt the worst health and economic harms of climate change, the world needs more governments to step up and stick to their pledges – and end fossil fuel subsidies. Despite increased support for fossil fuels in 2022, the share of G-20 fossil-fuel support allocated to coal is slowly shrinking – from 8% in 2017, to 2% in 2022.

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3BL Media

MARCH 9, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The global climate is an enormously complex system, and as climate change intensifies, damaging climate events are cascading from one another. Getting a better handle on climate science can sharpen these tools. By Sara Rosner - Director, Environmental Research and Engagement—Responsible Investment.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

Italians get climate change. PierMario Barzaghi, KMPG Italy, head of sustainability and climate change. Their glaciers are melting and their ski resorts are increasingly snowless. Muddy floods are wrecking the centres of hillside towns, and extreme temperatures are lowering crop yields.

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Net Zero Climate Change Development 146

ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

A group of nearly 300 financial institutions representing almost $29 trillion in assets are urging some of the world’s highest impact companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Caterpillar, to disclose environmental data on themes including climate change, water and forests, through the CDP environmental disclosure platform.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 10, 2024

The project is being managed by the Friends of RGV Reef , a non-profit group that created the reef in 2017, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) researchers, and funded through a $250,000 Fueling Futures grant from Enbridge. And at the project’s midway point, the UTRGV researchers are seeing promising results.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The TCFD was established by the Financial Stability Board in 2015, with the goal of developing consistent disclosure standards for companies, in order to enable investors and other stakeholders to assess the companies’ climate-related financial risk. Click here to access the 2022 TCFD status report.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

SBTi is one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of addressing and limiting climate change. SBTi also tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2024

PCI Media : to support research to enhance a media-based program to empower women farmers to take action on climate change, as part of the organization’s efforts to use the power of storytelling and community for social change around the world.

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Analytics Climate Change Development 147

Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

Italians get climate change. PierMario Barzaghi, KMPG Italy, head of sustainability and climate change. Their glaciers are melting and their ski resorts are increasingly snowless. Muddy floods are wrecking the centres of hillside towns, and extreme temperatures are lowering crop yields.

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Net Zero Climate Change Development 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We If you want to know what HSBC's stance on climate change really is, look at what they fund, not their fluffy marketing," he added.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

ROP’s climate change commitments will also be supported by Sustainable Financing Instruments under the National Framework Strategy on Climate Change. The principles include Green Bond Principles 2021, Social Bond Principles 2021, Green Loan Principles 2021 and Social Loan Principles 2021.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

announces its plans to accelerate its commitment to combat climate change with a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and supply chain (Scope 3) by 2040 in accordance with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard. SOURCE: Tiffany & Co.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

January 25, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Shifting generation profiles, climate change, aging infrastructure and cybersecurity continue to challenge the reliability and resilience of electric grids around the world. Department of Energy recorded 383 power outages, more than double the number of disturbances in 2017. In 2020, the U.S.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Nearly 1,500 companies with a high environmental impact will be targeted by an engagement campaign by investors representing over $31 trillion in assets urging them to disclose their impact on climate change, forests and water security.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Benchmark assessments are a cornerstone of Climate Action 100+ and are intended to help inform investors’ engagement strategies and wider public debate. This information is vital if we are to meet our global and local climate goals and curb the significant risk of loss from climate change, and the energy transition, today.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 24, 2023

In August of that same year, reinsurance company Munich Re published a report on the devastating impacts of recent floods, warning of the risks of climate change. It’s the result of rapidly increasing underwriting losses to climate-driven events that insurers and reinsurers are seeing worldwide.” In Canada, that year saw $2.1

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Those clauses have been removed. The mine’s first contract was signed in 1997 under then-owner Petaquilla Gold and was declared unconstitutional in 2017 by the Supreme Court. Cortés, an opponent of the new contract, accused First Quantum of betting on a strategy of fait accompli since 2017. “It

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Founded in 2017, Plan A provides corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software. Lubomila Jordanova, CEO of Plan A, said: “Climate change and the associated impacts pose an existential risk to businesses.

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