Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A seminal 2013 report from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on eating insects highlighted the myriad benefits of edible insects, which include circular use of waste to rear insects, relatively low greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions, and low water use.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1%

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 Elsa Wenzel.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

For one thing, it means that for the last year or so, I’ve had a serious case of the “told you so’s” as developments on the global, regional and national scales from think tanks and academics have validated the work that we have all been doing for the last 35 years enabling the private sector to act for nature. and 45 in Mexico.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson).

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The virtual event reflected on progress made towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of the transformations that have taken place in education, academic curricula, research, and technological developments following the historic 1992 Rio Summit.

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Tobias Webb

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As academics have noted: “…scientists have estimated that restored forests could sequester up to 16% of the carbon needed to limit global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, while generating some $84bn in assets such as timber and erosion control”. To this end, pledged restoration is clearly a good start.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Most people attending my talk reported that they had mostly heard about the issue on the right end of Slide 2: the problem of using too much fossil fuel and related climate change. This seems to be the academic specialty that finds holes in other people’s wishful thinking. This is a physics issue. On Slide 4, note that M.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

Regarding Goal 3 (Reduce child mortality), the global under-five mortality rate has declined by more than half, dropping from 90 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births between 1990 and 2015 and about 84% of children worldwide received at least a dose of measles-containing vaccine in 2013 (up from 73% in 2000). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Technology-focused climate crisis research and development (R&D) programs are in a time of rapid expansion and reformulation across government , academic research , the private sector, and partnerships that span all three. Today, we’re experiencing a similar but not-quite-the-same version of climate crisis avoidance.

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