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America’s Zero Carbon Action Plan – Spotlight Blog

Sustainable Development Network

That vision led me to engage in SDSN USA’s Zero Carbon Action Plan (ZCAP) development process in 2020. During 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, the protests for racial justice, and the California wildfires made a larger number of people acutely aware of breath. In writing this blog post, I spoke with one of my former students, Geena Peyton.

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the climate cloud

GreenBiz

Thu, 10/01/2020 - 01:30. These complex challenges can’t be solved in isolation, or by doing business as usual,” said Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business, in the blog about the deal. “We Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the climate cloud. Heather Clancy.

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Cisco’s Sustainability 101: What Is the Circular Economy?

3BL Media

Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. In that same year, 4.9 million tonnes of e-waste were registered – just over 37% of the volume sold.

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Cisco Foundation Sparks Innovation by Investing in Promising Solutions to Climate Change

3BL Media

Since then, we have held hundreds of meetings with organizations led by amazing people who are devoting all of their attention to the climate crisis, and coming up with truly impressive regenerative solutions. In 2020, fires in California released 110 million tonnes of carbon – that is 40% more than the state’s entire annual emissions.

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The Unseen Underground

Sense and Sustainability

Only in 2020 was Africa’s groundwater recharge—the natural replenishment of groundwater, mostly through rain and snow sinking into the ground— mapped for the first time. Regenerative agriculture has emerged as a way out of the catch-22 that we need to keep farming, but if we keep farming like this, we won’t be able to farm much longer.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

In 2020, the Arctic as a whole had its warmest year on record since data collection began in 1979. trillion in 2020. Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. In fact, the Arctic is warming at two times the global average. What does that mean?

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Cisco Foundation sparks innovation by investing in promising solutions to climate change

Cisco CSR

Since then, we have held hundreds of meetings with organizations led by amazing people who are devoting all of their attention to the climate crisis, and coming up with truly impressive regenerative solutions. . In 2020, fires in California released 110 million tonnes of carbon – that is 40% more than the state’s entire annual emissions.