Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

Additional McKinsey research noted that the value at stake from climate-induced hazards could increase from around 2% of global GDP to over 4% by 2050. The good news is that a growing number of insurance firms are making public commitments to no longer cover new upstream oil and gas projects, including Munich Re , Swiss Re and SCOR.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 27, 2021

To some, this may sound like good news. Although these products create the image that they waste less natural resources and have a more sensitive approach to the environment, this is, in reality, an attempt to benefit from demand. ” The manufacturer has increased the recycled content from 2% to 3%.

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Martin Brown

MAY 3, 2021

Regen Notes , a fortnightly newsletter is released through substack, as an update of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by me, Martin Brown. These newsletters will be also shared here for Patreon subscribers. We may have the technologies but now need the mindsets.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We are constantly looking for innovation and solutions that can help us in this new way of remote work, to improve our interactions to our customers and to be more emphatic than ever. We don’t need outstanding experiences now; we need to shelter our customers, our people, our environment. . Holly Beale (2019). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

If nature were protected and restored at scale, it could provide more than one-third of the annual emissions reductions the world needs by 2030 to keep global temperature rise below 2°C. The world’s forests alone store 1.5 When livestock aren’t managed sustainably, the soil compacts, the grass stops growing and the desert starts spreading.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

And I’m not even talking about the onrush of net-zero commitments by companies, government and others, although they seem to be happening at an almost-daily clip — so much so that they are no longer news. Expect a new wave of campaigns, demonstrations, boycotts, investor pressure and other tools of the trade.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 1, 2022

Vodafone’s #ChangetheFace campaign, which calls on technology leaders to diversify the technology industry, provides an example of where organizations can start. .” This reframing casts leaders as the active agents they are in shaping recruiting and retention systems, without placing the focus purely on excluded people.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This type of subsidy is in the news across Europe as governments are under pressure to respond to high wholesale gas prices, fearing a ‘cost of living’ crisis for millions. The UK’s oil and gas fiscal regime is the most generous in the world for developing new large fields. So far, the European Union has made a small step.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Worries about the health of the economy and human health far outweigh concerns about the environment right now. Coronavirus is the flat tire and once we can get it repaired and drive on it long enough to be sure it won't go flat again, we’ll start worrying about the bigger transmission issue — the environment — again.

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Stacey Higginbotham

JUNE 2, 2023

CNBC ) LoRaWAN deployment in Northern Kenya is Africa’s largest : Several companies have teamed up with the Northern Rangelands Trust to build out a LoRaWAN network that lets rangers and conservationists track the environment and animals in 22 public and private parks in Northern Kenya.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Person 2: Not just the fires, but also the snowpack was pretty much nonexistent. But I think there’s this other angle, too, which is about how do we create an environment and an ecosystem where the norm is talking about more positive and helpful types of conversation. So the bad news is no, he doesn’t accept climate change now.

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VIBE

JANUARY 22, 2021

On January 20th, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took their oaths of office ushering in a new era in American politics. Global, national, and increasingly state and municipal goals, policies, and codes are aligning behind these scientifically validated targets.

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Cisco CSR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The biggest news is the deadline: The memo requires agencies to meet “specific cybersecurity standards and objectives by the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 in order to reinforce the Government’s defenses against increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns.” tightly scoped resource networks or large flat networks)?

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

by Elizabeth Outzs, Energy News Network. For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While praised for its ambition, campaigners have raised concerns around the impact on its unique salt desert landscape. Transport This month, we look at global developments around electric trucks: First up, European lawmakers have agreed on emission targets that will phase out almost all sales of new diesel trucks by 2040.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

You may have heard these terms in the news lately, but what do they actually mean? Maybe you’ve heard on the news about the IPCC. Person 2: I picture the world from, you know, a big bird’s eye view. But to me, sustainability is really the triple win between the economy, people and the environment. C or even 2°C.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

Meanwhile, there was positive news from India , which saw open access solar capacity installations almost double last year to hit a new record. If all of the country’s 5,317 km of railway track could be covered by the panels, Sun-Ways estimates the network could produce around 2% of Switzerland’s total energy consumption.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Founded by accountant Tara Haddad, Vancouver-based Modern Plant-Based Foods aims to benefit “people, animals and the environment” by popularizing healthier, more natural plant ingredients. Ultimately, it’s less risky for our business model and more beneficial for the environment.”. Revenue growth. Modern Plant-Based Foods.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 5, 2023

New research from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released yesterday found that renewable power capacity is set to increase by a record 33% this year. That’s good news for companies committed to procuring 100% renewable energy through RE100. The share of coal-powered electricity in the G20’s mix dropped to 39%.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City. Deonna Anderson.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

C had made it clear was necessary before 2030 (96 months from that dinner), and I also shared with them a delight that only a month earlier the UN had recognized the right to a healthy and sustainable environment as a human right protected by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights , I had only one question for the diners. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C, but can collectively go further and faster within the right enabling environments. . Action this decade must drive sustainable economic growth, build resilience and solidarity, and create new jobs as part of a just transition. . READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE > NEWS: . They are taking action and going all in for 1.5°C,

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Good news stories do not have the sensationalistic allure of dramatic prophecies of doom, but once you get past the dire headlines, there is a litany of overlooked achievements that tangibly illustrate progress. billion and Canada added $30 billion in new funding for the climate.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

As reported by Inside Climate News , more than one thousand organizations hailing from 75 countries have all condemned Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. James Cameron , a carbon markets expert at Yale University’s Center for Business and Environment said the longer this war lasts the more it will benefit the transition to clean energy.

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