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CDP Adds Reporting on Plastic-Related Impact and Risks to Disclosure System

ESG Today

Climate research provider and environmental disclosure platform CDP announced the launch of the ability for companies to report on plastic-related impacts, following demand from investors for more information on companies’ plastic-related risk and exposure.

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University sustainability programs are trying to make classrooms more diverse

Corporate Knights

Air pollution, extreme heat, proximity to hazardous waste – communities of colour are disproportionately affected by social and environmental injustice. And yet, they’re often excluded from the solutions and don’t always feel welcome in the burgeoning field of sustainability.

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Canada isn’t taking the escalating environmental impact of AI seriously

Corporate Knights

Markey’s bill , which has yet to be passed, proposes that the Environmental Protection Agency undertake a detailed assessment of the full range of environmental impacts of AI , including energy, water, and e-waste from servers, and also recommends the development of a voluntary disclosure/reporting system for firms that use AI.

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Don't let climate grief and despair defeat climate solutions

Corporate Knights

. $200 million buys a lot of misleading PR and backroom arm-twisting, and that’s what fossil companies have spent on climate delay and denial since they turned their backs on their own early climate research around 1984, according to Fire Weather author John Vaillant. The crisis is obvious, and obviously terrifying.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Negotiations reached their peak with different priorities of the developing and developed countries addressing ambitious targets to take climate action and limit global temperature increase to 1.5 planets to provide the resources needed to produce goods and absorb waste (Global Footprint Network 2020). degrees celsius.

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Reusing captured carbon: ripe for a reappraisal?

Envirotec Magazine

says lead author Kiane de Kleijne, a climate researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. “It’s It’s taking problematic waste and turning it into a valuable product. This carbon dioxide is then converted using electricity, heat, or catalysts into a new product, like the fuel methanol. “It

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

On the “E” in ESG in particular, 86% of Americans we polled, across political parties, were in favor of federal disclosure requirements for climate data. The SEC’s move also comes as the need for more ambitious climate action becomes increasingly urgent. C Science Based Target Carbon negative target Zero waste target.

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