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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

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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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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. People have gotten used to having to jump quickly to change the system," EMF Chair MacArthur said Tuesday at the GreenBiz Circularity 20 virtual event.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. In that role, she was engaged in helping clients develop strategies for supply chain transparency disclosures and claim, emissions reporting and human rights. . "In

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

This along with an end to fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 is the timeline business needs to help get us on track. Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.” is also joining RE100 by committing to 100% renewable electricity by 2025. . Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and NRG Energy Inc.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. Volkswagen announced that it would more than double its network of electric vehicle charging stations by 2025. After years of observing the death of the Great Barrier Reef , there was a massive coral spawning event in 2021.