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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change.

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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

Yet, swirling beneath the surface all of the major issues of the 21st century — climate change, globalization, immigration, women’s rights and wealth inequity — are being played out in remote coffee villages around the world. . In 2012, Starbucks reported its average price for green beans was $2.56 paid per pound to the farmer.

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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals

GreenBiz

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. kilowatt-hours of energy from 2012 to 2020 (beating its goal of 4 billion kWh). . It has also restored more than 1.6

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Action Against Hunger Condemns Air Strikes on a Health Center It Supports

3BL Media

We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 21 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 59 countries, our 8,900 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies.

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IOC Welcomes Admission As Observer Organisation to UN Climate Change

3BL Media

International Olympic Committee news This will enable the IOC to engage more effectively with the global efforts to address climate change, underscoring its commitment to reducing emissions and to leveraging the role of sport as an “important enabler” for the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “We

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Why investor Green Century has taken an active interest in fighting deforestation

GreenBiz

Ceres talked with Waxman about Green Century’s focus on deforestation and its growing importance as a driver of climate change. It comes as deforestation — and associated greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts — are mounting in many regions of the world. Jessye Waxman: We started working on deforestation in 2012.

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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

This hands-off approach to labelling has achieved its intended effect of spreading the practice of responsible investing, with more than $35 trillion worldwide invested under ESG strategies, up from about $14 trillion in 2012, when these figures were first gathered. He now writes on sustainable business and finance and lives in Hamilton.