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ESG Explainer: Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain

Chris Hall

In 2011, the United Nations published guiding principles on business and human rights (UNGPs), in which it set out member states’ and corporations’ human rights responsibilities. Divestment was the least selected due diligence action by both business and general respondents. What is being done at the policy level?

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

Renewable Energy World

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. A moral imperative. Are thorium or fusion credible solutions ?