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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability. s sustainable cities vision and making our city a great place, to live, work, learn and play. Chris Castro.

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What Is The Just Energy Transition and How Can Today’s Businesses Play a Role?

3BL Media

The transition from fossil fuel-based energy systems to renewable and clean energy sources has been gaining momentum globally. While this transition is largely focused on creating a much more climate-conscious energy sector, it also has significant socio-economic implications for communities and governments around the world.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Climate Talks - Episode 06: Both People and Planet

3BL Media

In this episode, we’re breaking down why a truly sustainable future needs to be not only climate secure, but equitable and just for all. What does the industrialized world owe to developing nations for the climate devastation their economies have caused? I’m a journalist, a film director, and a climate optimist.

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

GreenBiz

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. We asked them to consider two questions: With the world turned upside down, what is your focus at work? That’s why I hope that after COVID-19 we will be more human and environmental-driven than money-driven.

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Lessons from the ‘yellow vests’

Corporate Knights

Not all of them, because I often work on Saturdays. The tax is nothing for people living in Paris. Yes, we care about the climate, but justice, too,” he explains. In interviews, I was interested in what drove them to mobilize and their views on climate change. Yes, we care about the climate, but justice, too.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. Just imagine what 2° or 3° or 4° will look like, and how much it will cost. So many people and stories. Joel Makower.