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New report reveals fast fashion's reliance on fracked gas in Texas

Corporate Knights

Sustainability leaders, industry stakeholders and academic experts alike have previously called on the fashion sector to adopt practices that can help curb its vast carbon footprint.

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Academic wins international award for urban ecology work

Envirotec Magazine

A researcher at Northumbria University is part of a group of academics to win a prestigious international award for their work on sustainable science. Dr Goddard, whose co-authors were Myla Aronson, Christopher Lepczyk, Karl Evans, Susannah Lerman, J.

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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research

Corporate Knights

The researchers, from Canada, the United States and Ireland, just published the first comprehensive review of academic and private research into the oil industry’s attempts to stymie and stifle climate science. “In The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.

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Can Regenerative Agriculture Deliver Sustainability Outcomes?

3BL Media

Decades of research demonstrate the benefits of sustainable farming practices, with some areas well-documented and others under-studied. He has built partnerships across the non- profit, academic, and for-profit domain and worked with farmers and ranchers on testing new technologies and practices in production settings.

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The time to act on gender inequality in the workplace is now

Corporate Knights

Another term, “double shift,” has been used to refer to women’s combined paid an unpaid labour, as has been documented by Statistics Canada. The pandemic compounded the impossibility of women’s professional lives — especially those of professionals and academics, like myself, who are mothers.

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Tracking National Climate Policy Implementation from Policy Documents using NLP

Sustainable Development Network

Currently, policy experts carefully comb through documents looking for words relevant to the policy goal of interest, the context in which they are mentioned. The tool then visualizes wherein the document these contexts are concentrated. Keywords are input as a simple file for automatic matching and searching within the documents.

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Central Banks and Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

Download the document. Politicians and academics alike have urged climate risk as both macroeconomic and financial… Read more → Central banks are increasingly called upon to address climate change.