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Empowering the STEM Workforce of the Future

3BL Media

Originally published in the Delaware Business Magazine 's May/June 2024 issue. By Najwa Corum, Early Career Program Leader at Chemours The world is innovating at a rapid pace as we work to solve major global challenges, from climate change and decarbonization to managing the boom in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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Alibaba Businesses Share Green Initiatives at COP28

3BL Media

The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP28, concluded on Dec. Xu is also the Chairman of Alibaba’s Sustainability Management Committee and in a statement, he said that the platform company is just starting on its journey to address climate change.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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Saint-Gobain Reveals Results of 2024 Sustainable Construction Barometer: An Overview of Sustainable Construction in Canada and Across the World

3BL Media

The Observatory's first findings: Financing and risk coverage: how can we facilitate investment in sustainable construction and energy renovation, and strengthen the role of the insurance system in adapting to climate change? The Observatory will continue to development in 2024.

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Saint-Gobain Reveals Results of 2024 Sustainable Construction Barometer: An Overview of Sustainable Construction in the United States and Across the World

3BL Media

The Observatory's first findings: Financing and risk coverage: how can we facilitate investment in sustainable construction and energy renovation, and strengthen the role of the insurance system in adapting to climate change? The Observatory will continue to develop in 2024.

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Current incremental levels of change insufficient to meet global net zero ambitions by 2050, says KPMG report

Envirotec Magazine

Governments and industry must deliver transformative change on net zero but are currently hamstrung by significant barriers, including global public debt, domestic tensions, increased opposition to decarbonization plans, and the need to guarantee energy supply, according to KPMG’s 2023 Net Zero Readiness Report.