3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

DESCRIPTION: Talk of progression and urgent solutions reverberated throughout the COP27 crowd, during the long-drawn-out summit, as leaders made a desperate bid to clinch climate deals. The summer flood disaster in Pakistan, for example, killed 1,739 people and caused £12bn in damage and a similar amount in economic losses.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Communities in disaster-prone areas prepare for the worst, yet sometimes there's no safeguarding from the force of nature. Disaster recovery is personal to me. We've learned a lot since then about how we can help prepare for and respond to disasters. experienced 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

As parts of Europe dig out of this latest weather disaster, the European Union this week revealed an ambitious climate change… Read more → Read the full story from PBS News Hour.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A flawed but still transformative COP28 declaration signalled a transition out of fossil fuels and the dawn of renewable energy as United Nations climate negotiations concluded in Dubai, United Arab Emirates around noon local time today. They are a climate action lifeline, not a finish line. The package is not perfect; no UN text is.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

November 29, 2023 /3BL/ - As world leaders gather at COP28, the UN climate conference, nearly 1.6 million people throughout the Horn of Africa have been displaced by severe climate-induced floods. This emergency illustrates one way that the climate crisis impacts the world’s most vulnerable people. last week in Somalia.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 7, 2023

We must prepare for a long summer," said Steven Guilbeault, Canada's minister of environment and climate change, this week. Nearly three out of every four natural disasters on this planet are linked to water, and one in four of us live without safely managed water services or clean drinking water, the UN says. Parts of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Indeed, AI is integral to all manner of technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to more informed disaster response systems to smart buildings and data collection networks monitoring everything from energy consumption to deforestation. . This article first appeared in GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, VERGE Weekly, running Wednesdays.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revelations that almost 95% of the “avoided deforestation” carbon credits issued by the world’s largest certifier have zero climate mitigation value, have sparked calls for rigour, transparency, and accountability in the carbon credit process. And the carbon credit industry has some shady corners, SourceMaterial adds.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 9, 2022

Around the globe, the climate crisis is ravaging livestock farms. What’s coming into sharp focus is that today’s livestock infrastructure is built for a climate that no longer exists. A warming climate also attracts invasive new species, transboundary diseases and pathogens, further threatening animal welfare.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. And climate is not the only major threat we face. But what if we did?

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3BL Media

MARCH 22, 2022

DESCRIPTION: "There is no clean drinking water where I live in Balouchistan because of climate change," Maria, a Refugee in Pakistan said. "The 8 in 10 people displaced by climate change are women. Women and children are 14 times more likely to die in a natural disaster (UN Women). I found this shocking.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 23, 2023

By noon, as John Vaillant reports in his book Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast , the tune had changed dramatically, to “Everyone out! All gone. The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking at it with sticks. Eighty-eight thousand people fled the city, many carrying traumas that last to this day. Canada has 3.2

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B the Change

MARCH 21, 2023

A Head-Heart-Hands Approach to Discussing Climate Change and Inspiring Change By Chelsea Hicks-Webster I recently attended a talk by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe , atmospheric scientist and Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy. to work on climate issues. (If Where we stand [with climate change] is bad.”

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In recognition of Climate Week NYC 2022, AMD shares how the company is helping to advance climate action. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Risks Report, “climate action failure” is the number one long-term threat to the world, and it is the risk that has potentially the most severe impacts over the next decade.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

ESG in Action Climate change is already materially affecting financial and economic outcomes, and that impact is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. That’s why AllianceBernstein, in partnership with Columbia University’s Climate School, developed the Climate Change and Investment Academy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From one fantastic climate event to another.heading back uptown we are able to take part in the NY Times Climate Forward event. One of the fantastic speakers was John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States. As Kerry said,"Climate is not a bilateral issue—it requires every nation to address the issue.

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ESG Today

JUNE 20, 2023

billion in investments aimed at helping protect coastal communities and electrical grid infrastructure from the impact of climate change, in a presentation Monday in Palo Alto, California. Addressing climate change has been a significant focus for the Biden Administration, starting with the return of the U.S.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We are also at a tipping point in climate change. Climate-related disasters displaced three times more people than conflict and violence in 2020, jeopardizing education for millions of children. As a result, we build our new education efforts on a solid foundation.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. They called it the Blue New Deal.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: By now, the alarms over climate change seem to be sounding nearly every week. For Flanagan, the evidence that climate change can cause catastrophic consequences came in the powerful example of Hurricane Katrina. “I I was shocked at how woefully unprepared we were for that disaster.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2023

This decision followed Corporate Knights research that showed the fund had investments in at least 152 fossil fuel companies.) It’s time for Colorado PERA and others to get on board to prevent the retirement savings of their members from being squandered on the pathway to catastrophic climate change. The post Colorado pension fund loses US$2.7

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

The NGO has announced a new strategic review, where it will address systemic change and measure its outcomes. But one of the things that really stands out over the last four to five years was the striking science of the relationship between climate and nature. “It’s clear that you can’t get to 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

While indirect risks remain predominant, litigation could target asset owners following increased focus on financial institutions. Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Eliana Mertens is a 12-year-old Girl Scout Cadette who, despite having lost her home and her neighborhood in Louisville, CO to a massive wildfire, is working with her troop and the Arbor Day Foundation to replace some of the 1,800 trees destroyed by the natural disaster, as well as other native vegetation. “We make changes?that

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This summit coincides with and is part of Climate Week NYC 2023. And climate change is arguably the gravest crisis the world has ever seen — and one that impacts countless other global challenges, from poverty to hunger. Today the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2023 Summit gets under way in New York.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 9, 2023

Misha Schubert, Science & Technology Australia CEO, said Australians believe science is important to lives, safety, economy and complex problem solving, especially following recent climate disasters in the country. Australians back scientists to come up with climate solutions. For more information about events, visit [link].

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Stacey Higginbotham

OCTOBER 31, 2022

28, 2022 in my weekly IoT newsletter. . But smart cities should be about so much more, and could in turn solve more pressing problems, such as pollution and protecting infrastructure from climate change. That will include personal safety, but also public health and resilience to natural disasters. I’m not alone.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Let’s go above the head of the Texas governor and Ercot leaders and call for the resignation of the climate leaders. I bet they’d be in favor of firing those in charge of the climate. Look, I’m now speaking directly to the leaders of the climate: get your act together now. Fire the climate leaders now!

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a collaboration of Federal agencies, released its Fifth National Climate Assessment (the “NCA5) in November 2023. The latest assessment in the series is a broad overview of the progress (or lack thereof) made towards addressing climate change since the last report published in 2018.

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Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

[Image via The Nest Climate Campus] What does it actually take to drive major environmental action within a company or industry? Workday’s also enacting change in its supply chain by having 70% of its suppliers make science-based targets by 2026. What moves a company from making public commitments to executing scalable plans?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Professor Steve Keen says asset owners should dedicate more investments to the climate transition, while prioritising scientific predictions over economic ones. Institutional investors are ill-prepared for the impending societal and economic changes likely to be triggered by climate change and have their priorities all wrong.

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ESG Today

APRIL 17, 2024

By Christina Shim, Head of Sustainability Software, IBM Late last year at the UN climate change conference in Dubai, one of the facts most repeated around dining tables, on stages, and over cocktails was that solar is now the cheapest form of electricity in the majority of countries. In the U.S., earnings by over $100 billion per year.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By: Christina Shim, Global Head of Product Management & Strategy, IBM Sustainability Software Next month, scientists, political leaders, and business people from around the world will gather in Dubai for the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The stakes are real. This year, in fact, the U.S.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Taught by experts spanning a range of disciplines, including biodiversity, conservation, land use change, climate science, anthropology, and human rights, the course caters to practitioners, students, and professionals across sectors. They will grasp its critical role in global climate regulation and the risks posed by its degradation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve. Last February , French climate campaigners sued BNP Paribas for financing fossil fuels in the first climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank.

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