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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C In British Columbia, the Okanagan’s legendary wine industry is making desperate pivots after back-to-back extreme weather events damaged crops, reports the Globe and Mail.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities. C is a campaign led by the Science Based Targets initiative in partnership with the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition. .

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. LinkedIn | Twitter.