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Business-led Solutions to Combat Climate Change

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DESCRIPTION: July 6, 2022 /3BL Media/ - How is sustainability reporting supporting efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, or protect the oceans? In 2004, we hosted our first Investors Summit on Climate Risk, inviting all the largest investors in the world. SOURCE: GRI. Alignment in language is also important.

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A Science-Based Determination: The Fastest Path to Decarbonizing Buildings Is a Digital Technology-First Approach

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Schneider Electric Buildings play a critical role in the race to meet science-based climate targets Climate change is one of the biggest challenges to human and planetary well-being. It’s the fastest path decarbonizing buildings. 2004 standards across various climate zones and with varying grid emissions intensities.

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Can carbon capture be a meaningful climate solution?

Corporate Knights

Phasing out fossil fuels is key to cutting emissions and fighting climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body charged with assessing climate change science, includes carbon capture and storage among the actions needed to slash emissions and meet temperature targets.

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Saint-Gobain Reveals the 5 Winners of the Global Architecture Student Contest

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We at Saint-Gobain are convinced that architecture together with construction can bring strategic responses to the key challenges posed by climate change, resource scarcity and urbanization. This edition of the Architecture Student Contest was special: launched in Serbia in 2004, this is its 20th year of existence.

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How today’s green building heroes are scaling up to save our planet

Corporate Knights

It’s windy, it has been raining, and everything is soaking wet, but she forges on with her message: decarbonizing our drafty, aging building stock is one of the most critical problems we face. We were able to get a zoning change approved so we could put eight inches of insulation on the outside of buildings.

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Book review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker

Edouard Stenger

Pinker was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and his books are regularly featured in the best-selling lists. . Firstly, the author completely misses the mark on the topic I have dedicated part of my professional life for the past 10+ years: climate change. Conclusion.

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. Private equity firms are leading sustainability investing to drive positive change.