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Is it time for a ‘planned retreat’ from building near flood plains?

Corporate Knights

Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.

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Public Policy Forum urges government to help finance oil and gas emission reductions

Corporate Knights

More than 400 scientists and academics signed a letter in January urging the federal government to kill any plan to provide a tax credit to spur industry investment in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), one of the key tools companies propose to use to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. “We

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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles

Envirotec Magazine

The publication came with a stark warning that while the UK is making some progress in tackling key environmental issues, a lot more collaboration and action is needed from businesses to achieve the level of change required, and to keep climate goals within reach.

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Take Five: Making Good on a Promise

Chris Hall

As the deadly toll of climate change is increasingly felt around the world, it’s more important than ever that we walk the walk. . Making good on a promise – Just as it’s important to reduce global CO2 levels to mitigate the effects of climate change, investors, companies and policymakers need to be paying attention to methane, too.

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation

There’s increasing discussion in the academic literature about this problem-solving orientation. In organization (large firm) theory, a “dynamic capability” positions a firm to adapt resources and efforts in the face of shocks or other change.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. Climate Change Conference in Paris.