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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said. Significant progress.

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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

That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic. The winners of the competition will receive cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $3,000.

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A Measured Approach

Chris Hall

Concerns over greenwashing have accelerated efforts by regulators and standard setters to develop and introduce more robust forms of disclosure and measurement to the burgeoning ESG investing market, he suggests. When ESG [investing] has reliable measurement, we will begin to see investment decisions made in a different way,” he says.

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Climate Talks - Episode 06: Both People and Planet

3BL Media

KRISTY DRUTMAN: Mostly it’s people who are not in the climate space, comedians or politicians or entrepreneurs and business people who don’t really understand how to communicate climate science to the public because they don’t fully know the issue because they don’t have the academic background.

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

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. By Theodora Dryer.

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