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Smith College: Geothermal Campus Energy Case Study

Sustainable Development Network

The Net Zero on Campus initiative aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of college and university campuses around the world. We are aiming to move our infrastructure systems to be consistent with a zero-carbon world in the future; but we are not insisting on that today.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. It has to build housing for millions of new residents while simultaneously hitting net-zero targets. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

of academic papers expressing a view on human-caused climate change agreed that it was real, and that humans were the cause. It will cost too much money to decarbonize our economy,” they protest. The consensus appears to be that it will cost too much money NOT to decarbonize our economy. You still need us,” they claim. “It

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Key Messages from the Zero Emissions Solutions Conference 

Sustainable Development Network

Through its intensive global dialogues among technical, scientific, academic, and business specialists, the ZESC provided a forum to exchange information, identify bottlenecks, discuss best practices, and provide signals to policymakers for a low-emissions future at a time when pivotal decisions are being made at COP26.

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Copy of SDSN at the 2023 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF)

Sustainable Development Network

Key stakeholders, including policymakers, government officials, journalists, academics, students, and members of civil society need to integrate innovative approaches to collecting and disseminating data to inform decision-making and effectively push Agenda 2030 forward.

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Saint-Gobain Ceramics to Build New NorPro Manufacturing Facility in Wheatfield, New York

3BL Media

Upstate New York is becoming a global competitor in advanced manufacturing, thanks to the states strategic investments in a skilled workforce, quality of life benefits, and innovative academic-industry partnerships, said Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Hope Knight.