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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

When Andrew Benedek sold his water treatment company, Zenon Environmental, to General Electric in 2006, he didn’t intend to start another company. But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now. There have been robust efforts for years among academics, NGOs, entrepreneurs and a handful of business executives aimed at reinventing capitalism and corporations. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. The University of Michigan Endowment Fund: Divesting from Fossil Fuels (Published 9.9.2020) In September 2019, there were climate change strikes at the University of Michigan.

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation

By Jonas Gamso Around the world, most developing countries face two crises: climate change and debt. Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts.

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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. An example of his pioneering innovative transdisciplinary approach to these issues can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006.

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Australian solar pioneers win prestigious energy prize

Sustainability Matters

The IREG List of International Academic Awards regards it as one of the world’s top awards, with a reputation score of 0.51 I hope that PERC technology winning the QEPrize will highlight the importance of accelerated solar adoption to address climate change,” Green said. compared to a Nobel Prize.

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Why raising interest rates to reduce inflation may work out very badly

Gail Tverberg

3] We can look back and see how rising interest rates were used to slow the world economy in the 2004 to 2006 period, and how different the economic situation was then compared to now. To try to reduce inflation, the Federal Reserve raised target interest rates in the 2004 to 2006 period and gradually brought them down, starting in late 2007.

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