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Don't let climate grief and despair defeat climate solutions

Corporate Knights

A summer of wildfires, smoke alerts, heatwaves, and storms is producing a new wave of grief and despair that must not paralyse the solutions we need to get the climate crisis under control. The reaction is utterly understandable when you can taste climate change in the back of your throat. We still have the power to write them.

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How to kick-start a clean energy renaissance in rural America

Corporate Knights

The CEO of non-profit Groundswell hoped to engage leaders in the city of around 30,000 residents about how they could harness renewable power. So she listened and followed local officials, working to gain their support and spending time to understand the needs of the people they represent and serve.

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Move over, remote monitoring; supply chains are the new black

Stacey Higginbotham

After several years of using COVID-19 to sell their digital transformation efforts, hardware and software companies focused on the industrial IoT are now pitching supply chain intelligence (with a dash of sustainability thrown in). Worries about security didn’t help. Which is great for the environment!

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Ecocentricity Blog - Down With The Economic Man: Thoughts on the Shortcomings of Our Economic Paradigm

3BL Media

SUMMARY: So many of the assumptions within economics are rooted in the idea that people are, first and foremost, self-interested. DESCRIPTION: A big part of last week’s post on the demise of coal was about economics. Back in my college economics classes, we heard a lot about the “economic man.” By: John A. SOURCE: Ray C.

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Reform in a Storm

Chris Hall

Investors, governments argue that MDBs must be far more effective crowding in private investment targeting climate action and SDGs in EMDEs. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has never been one to mince his words, and, last month, his message to governments, investors and companies was clear. “I see a lack of ambition.

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Unfinished Business

Chris Hall

Climate risks remain a priority as nature issues rise up the agenda for investors and corporates at a recent Hong Kong roundtable held by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. But they also recognise that much progress is still required on the existing challenge of obtaining an accurate and comprehensive picture of climate risks.

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Why financial approaches won’t fix the world’s economic problems this time

Gail Tverberg

Time and time again, financial approaches have worked to fix economic problems. For a very long time, financial manipulations have been able to adjust affordability in a way that is optimal for most players. ” In this post, I write about this presentation. .” What could possibly go wrong?

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