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Climate Change: How It's Affecting Your Health and How Businesses Can Help Fight This Global Crisis

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In this Teal Talks episode, we hear from leading environmental experts on the impacts of climate change on health and how businesses can make a difference. DESCRIPTION: Climate change doesn’t only affect the health of our planet — it also impacts the health of our people. Climate vulnerability.

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Want To Boost the Global Economy by $10 Trillion?

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Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business. Photo: CARE Peru Data from the Gates Foundation suggests that investing in the economic power of women like Fariha could boost the global economy by as much as $10 trillion by 2030 – twice the GDP of Japan, the world’s third largest economy.

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Global Consumer Goods Companies Release First Collective Baseline Study, Putting Increased Transparency at the Forefront of Action To Reduce Food Waste and Loss

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PARIS, November 16, 2023 /3BL/ - The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Food Waste Coalition of Action has today released its first baseline report , presenting operational food surplus and waste aggregated data from sixteen of its retailer and manufacturer members. million tonnes coming from the manufacturer side.

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How Do You Cultivate an Innovative Mindset? Invest in Education.

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As we live through the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), we are experiencing social and technological change at an exponential pace. At the same time, complex challenges such as climate change and inequities require us to rethink how we can do more – as a Company, as a society and individually.

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Lenovo’s CO2 Offset Service Helps One of the Largest Food and Beverage Companies Manage Its IT Carbon Footprint

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These efforts are part of companies’ efforts to measure and reduce their contributions to climate change. This service offers customers a simple and transparent way to offset carbon emissions and take tangible climate action by supporting one of the United Nations’ climate action projects.

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Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050

GreenBiz

Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. Liz Morrison. Wed, 06/30/2021 - 02:00. The goal: eliminate the use of the combustion engine in personal vehicles and the trucking industry by 2050.

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Deloitte: Policy Action, Investment in Workforce Required to Tap $43 Trillion Net Zero Transition Opportunity

ESG Today

and introduces a new “Job Vulnerability Index” to identify the jobs most vulnerable to climate change and decarbonization. By region, Asia Pacific and Africa have the most vulnerable workforces, with 40% employed in the most exposed industries.