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Climate Change: How It's Affecting Your Health and How Businesses Can Help Fight This Global Crisis

3BL Media

As we continue to see changes to our environment, like increased temperatures, extreme weather events, poor air quality and population displacement, it may be less obvious to some how these climate drivers impact human health. DESCRIPTION: Climate change doesn’t only affect the health of our planet — it also impacts the health of our people.

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International Paper's Gregg Named to Manufacturers Association Board of Directors

3BL Media

The NAM and its members are at the forefront of every important policy debate, focusing on solutions to help the industry compete in the global economy and to help the country address challenges ranging from supply disruptions and inflation to the workforce crisis and energy security. Manufacturing employs more than 12.8 733 10th St.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Water Must Be “Third Peak” in Climate, Nature Challenge

Chris Hall

Martha Rojas Urrego, Commissioner at the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, went one step further and stressed that there are “very clear” links between nature and climate change, but little focus is paid to their interlinkage of water. By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C Belem, situated at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, is facing an influx of 70,000 delegates attending an upcoming United Nations climate summit, COP 30, in 2025.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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TPT Framework “Complements and Builds” on ISSB Standards

Chris Hall

These new requirements are anticipated to come into force for accounting periods from January 2025. The first reporting would begin from 2026. In 2023, the UK government committed to consulting on introducing requirements also for the UK’s largest companies to disclose their transition plans if they have them.