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We need to talk about meat

Corporate Knights

By late February, the Smokehouse Creek wildfire in the Texas Panhandle had become the state’s first ever “gigafire,” a label saved for blazes that tear through more than a million acres. They’re also funding ads that portray plant-based foods as unhealthy, unnatural and ultra-processed, as a new report from Freedom Food Alliance chronicles.

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Volunteers from Around the Globe Arrive on Robinson Crusoe Island to Participate in Lenovo's Work for Humankind

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: April 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Following its launch late last year, a select group of volunteers from around the globe will travel to one of the most remote offices in the world to Work for Humankind , a bold program born out of a landmark partnership between Lenovo, Island Conservation, and the Robinson Crusoe Island community.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. Program Manager, Datacenter Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft; Seattle. We are inventing new ways of coordinating sustainability programs from afar.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. billion for the first nine months of 2021/22. billion in 2020/21 and another $1.5

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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation

Digital government plays a central role in Ukraine’s ability to continue to fight for its very existence and respond to the aggressor. The introduction of the e-governance platform “Diia” in 2020 marked a significant milestone in prioritizing public service delivery on digital-first and mobile-first principles.

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6 Key Tasks at COP27

Chris Hall

Floods and storms in southern Africa during the first half of 2022 killed hundreds of people and severely disrupted economic activity. At a bare minimum, COP 27 should kickstart a process to formalise funding arrangements to respond to loss and damage under the UNFCCC.

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In eleventh hour COP27 pitch, EU proposes climate loss and damage fund

Corporate Knights

The European Union offer would include a commitment to immediately establish a new loss and damage response fund with details worked out over the next year as well as a commitment to examine debt and reform the mulitlateral development banks,” the news agency writes. China and Gulf states pushed back, while the U.S. kept quiet.”.