Remove 2001 Remove EPA Remove Paris Agreement
article thumbnail

ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

According to the EPA , transition risks are related to the transition to a lower-carbon economy, while physical risks are associated to the physical impacts of climate change. It can be challenging to keep up, which is why we’ve developed this guide as a tool to quickly catch up. Let’s get into it.

UNSDG 147
article thumbnail

RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

If the administration’s rejection of the Paris agreement was the equivalent of a flawed interpretation of the law, our burgeoning trans-ideological climate movement may be the equivalent of changing the law itself — more consequential and more resilient. In 2001’s Whitman v. Massachusetts v.

EPA 540
article thumbnail

Can young Republicans wake their party up to climate change?

Corporate Knights

Richard Nixon, for his part, created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And in 1987, Ronald Reagan signed on to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement that helped shrink a gaping ozone hole over Antarctica. In 2001, then-president George W.