Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Climate change as a threat multiplier to environmental reproductive justice.” ” Seminars in Perinatology, 151843. Gad, L., & Zota, A. link] Abstract Legacies of racial capitalism and colonialism drive present day racial disparities in perinatal health outcomes.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million SSS project, which is developing an AI-powered system to improve the long-term operational resilience of water systems in the face of climate change and rapid population growth. Long-term resilience George Schley spoke in detail about the £7.5 billion by 2027.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Natural disasters resulting from climate change: The impact of hurricanes and flooding on perinatal outcomes.” ” Seminars in Perinatology, 151840. link] Abstract: Although the earth’s climate has been continuously changing over billions of years, human influence has accelerated that rate of change.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2024

By Zoey England Today’s college students are coming of age in a warming world, growing up as climate change has accelerated into an intensifying crisis that leaves no community untouched. When surveyed, people around the world consistently rank climate change as one of the greatest perceived long-term risks to society.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2022

As Walter Buczynski , Senior Seminar Leader with the Procurement and Supply Institute of Asia (PASIA) shared, there are reasons for optimism, with a new generation of leaders taking sustainability and climate change more seriously: “ w e have not inherited the environment from our parents, we have the environment on loan for our children.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Massachusetts Colleges and Universities Leading the Charge In Massachusetts, several colleges and universities are working to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our time – climate change. Students are encouraged to participate through volunteer opportunities in campus gardens and composting programs.

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3BL Media

MAY 11, 2022

In October 2021, Aflac Japan participated in nature conservation activities of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and carried out forest conservation activities as a first step toward measures to address climate change in the future. implemented the following initiatives in 2021. More than 55 employees in the U.S. –

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2025

The firm regularly hosts seminars for suppliers, outlining what is expected from them and what support they can expect to receive. In some respects, this could be seen as an easier task for an insurer, since the dangers of climate change are intrinsically linked to the long-term risk of the business.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SDSN Italy and SDSN Youth Mediterranean became the official community partners of the Local Conference of Youth on Climate Change, LCOY Italia 2021. Organized ahead of the UNFCCC’s COP26 , LCOY Italia is also part of the All 4 Climate Italy program aimed at making 2021 a landmark year for climate ambition.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 4, 2022

In the honorable presence of Professor Jeffrey Sachs as the keynote speaker, the seminar served to launch Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Pakistan (SDSN Pakistan), a newly formed national structure housed within the Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University (IGHD, AKU).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The call comes ahead of London Rivers Week, which has a packed programme of walks, talks and online seminars for everyone to get involved in. The public can get involved in citizen science projects to monitor the health of their rivers in order to gather evidence on the issues and opportunities for water quality improvements.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 31, 2023

Experts at the seminar reiterated that water scarcity has become a serious threat to Pakistan’s sustainable development and economic growth. He is an expert on climate change impacts and its relation to critical water problems in the Indus Basin of Pakistan. SDSN Pakistan members were present at the event.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Dr Tara Shine has dedicated over 20 years of her life to “the pursuit of fairness between people and the planet” She is described as an expert in the field of climate change and climate justice with a passion for communicating her science and her positive vision for the future.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On the occasion of Youth4Climate, the Pre-COP26 initiative that took place in 28-30 September 2021 in Milan, Italy; SDSN Mexico was humbled to host a meeting regarding climate change for young activists in partnership with The Embassy of Italy in Mexico and The Association of Italian Researchers in Mexico (ARIM).

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Alternative Energy Mag

JUNE 23, 2025

Simon Allison, Vice President APAC, Xodus, said: "As the urgency to tackle climate change intensifies, CCUS has staked a claim as one of the most effective and immediate solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, steel and fossil fuel power generation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 19, 2024

The festival celebrates London’s rivers and has a packed programme of walks, talks and online seminars for everyone to get involved in. By transforming London into a sponge city we enhance our rivers’ resilience to climate change and ensure that we can all benefit from our precious rivers.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2020

infrastructure research facility, ICAIR, the group focused on the relationship between Government policy and the wastewater industry’s plans to tackle the challenges that we face due to climate change and urbanisation. Held at the University of Sheffield’s new £9.2m

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We’ve also curated VR content involving markets outside Indonesia, allowing viewers to witness the impacts of climate change in Fiji; meet a waste recycling community in Cairo; and explore the rural village of Huaichai in Laos, where families are working to overcome malnutrition by improving sanitation and hygiene.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 9, 2020

During the seminar, the impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 disease) pandemic was addressed, as they pertained to the webinar’s themes. The fifth session of the seminar was organized by SDSN Andes , and moderated by its Director, Dr. Jorge Gómez-Paredes. of what is happening at the moment."

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 2, 2022

Our project has consisted of hosting an experiential learning course, one-on-one interviews and focus groups, surveys, student seminars, writing workshops, and system testing. Yet, the knowledge, voices, and expertise of those communities are often excluded from the design, development, and use of technology.

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Alternative Energy Mag

JUNE 17, 2025

Add climate change with extreme-weather causing utilities to shut-off power during high-winds to avoid sparking wildfires or during heatwaves to avoid air-conditioner-grid-overload - and it demonstrates why battery storage is so important. US power grid electricity demands often outpace supply -- resulting in more frequent outages.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

First, there is a need to make systems change funding more about transformation — for example, not just reforming the unfair rules of a system, but changing who holds the power to make those rules in the first place. Heather Grady is a Vice President at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 28, 2022

Thematic Group No2 on Climate Change and Research Programs was chaired by Phoebe Koundouri, University Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Director of ReSEES Research Laboratory. Smriti Das, Associate Professor at TERI School of Advanced Studies. at low cost and high productivity.

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Alternative Energy Mag

JUNE 12, 2025

Hydrogen is one such clean energy source that has zero carbon content and stores much more energy by weight than gasoline. "This is an important step towards making large-scale green hydrogen production a reality, which will ultimately help in reducing global carbon emissions and mitigating climate change."

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 26, 2018

In my seminar at UN SDSN, New York on 19 th July 2018, I made the following salient points, based on my research: Setting Goals When global targets are set without distinguishing between regional and socio-economic differences in development trajectories, unrealistic targets can be set.

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Eco-Business

JULY 3, 2025

link] Copy Thomson Reuters Foundation 3 minute read July 3, 2025 From scorching hot classrooms to flooded roads, climate change is forcing millions of students out of school , according to new UNICEF data. How is climate change accelerating school disruptions? Image: Glendale Lapastora , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr.

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Eco-Business

JULY 6, 2025

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

And whatever systems are put in place have to be monitored — because of climate change, a lot of them simply are not working. So we need to find something that's sustainable, that takes into account climate change, and also is affordable so that we can that people could maintain it if they have to.

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Eco-Business

JULY 3, 2025

Not only is extreme heat the nation’s leading weather-related killer, but the rise in global temperatures also contributes to worsening climate-related disasters like wildfires. “Climate change is having an impact … based on the warmer temperatures that we’ve been seeing, the warmer climate and more evaporation.”

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 12, 2022

At Aspen, we use text-based dialogues occuring around a seminar table of about 24 leaders as the unit of transformation. From climate change to racial injustice, from polarization to the rise of authoritarianism—there is no shortage of crises that require immediate action.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

An analysis by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that 2023 was the hottest year in data records going back to 1850, with an average temperature of 1.48°C Climate change has made extreme weather events such as heatwaves more frequent, intense, and prolonged. C warmer than the pre-industrial average.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 2, 2024

In the early 2000s, a number of leaders within the American conservative evangelical community embraced climate change as a priority issue. This shift was initiated when a British climate scientist, who is also a devout Christian, attended a retreat where he met a prominent leader from the American Christian evangelical movement.

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Eco-Business

JULY 8, 2025

The classroom crisis is worsening the impact of climate change on Filipino children, with at least 96 per cent of them experiencing multiple, overlapping climate-related hazards like floods, heatwaves and tropical cyclones, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Visit [link]. Like this content?

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Eco-Business

JULY 9, 2025

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Eco-Business

JULY 9, 2025

The research, published in Nature Climate Change , assesses the impact of “overshooting” the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on the Amazon and Siberian forests. Instead of a drop in tree cover, they find a change in the composition of trees. Overshoot would see warming surpass 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. Integrating the pro-climate change and sustainability efforts of asset managers, investors and non-governmental organizations directly with pro-democracy advocacy.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 30, 2025

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