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AB and Columbia Climate School Kicked Off Its Climate Change Curriculum 2.0

3BL Media

Last week, AB and Columbia Climate School kicked off the first module of its Climate Change Curriculum 2.0, We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues.

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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

Griffith Business School, part of a university that positions itself as a values-led institution, earned top marks for rich core content tied to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a high level of sustainability-rich citations in peer-reviewed academic journals. The key is to never get complacent.

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Multisolving: Making Systems Whole, Healthy, and Sustainable

Stanford Social Innovation

Investments toward climate goals might pay off financially in the long-term but usually require upfront investments that can challenge health systems with narrow operating margins. And clinicians’ expertise in health isn’t always accompanied by climate change expertise. Future dividends are expected as a changed system persists.

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

Gail Tverberg

World energy consumption by fuel based on Vaclav Smil’s estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects (Appendix) together with data from BP’s 2011 Statistical Review of World Energy for 1965 and subsequent. World coal supply has been lagging population growth since at least 2011.

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Best for the World B Corp Creates Earth-Friendly Work Opportunities for Refugees

B the Change

Mario says making the decision to become a B Corp in 2011 was easy because she had seen the value of other third-party certifications. “We When we started, only a small group of companies, NGOs, and academic institutions were looking for the products that we were willing to make for them. those customers are still our customers.”

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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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Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance

Corporate Knights

As lieutenant to party leader Jack Layton, Mulcair helped grow support for the NDP in Quebec to the point that the party won the majority of Quebec seats in the 2011 federal election. Now retired from politics, Mulcair has made sustainable development the focus of his academic career.