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Petroleum workers journey into the world of renewable energy

Corporate Knights

By 2016, oil prices were 70% what they were two years earlier. Keats also joined an organization, Iron & Earth, that had been created by laid-off oil sand workers in the spring of 2016. We need to shift our country’s labour market in order to implement solutions to slow climate change.” .

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Key Issues 2021 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report

3BL Media

Key leverages its expertise, relationships, market influence, and resources to help address the pressing challenge of climate change. and provides services to clean technology firms in the power generation, smart grid, energy management, and pollution control sectors. In 2021, Key invested $5.1

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Invest in Networks for Exponential Climate Wins

Stanford Social Innovation

Instead of billions of data points, we are dealing with billions of emissions sources and billions of humans impacted by climate change. This proved true in 2016 when both Brazil and the United States elected Presidents opposed to climate action. degree limit scientists say can protect climate stability.

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Converging crises call for converging solutions

GreenBiz

Perversely, it is possible that economic crises will be the catalyst we need to address climate change. That’s because the problems have the same solution: the rapid deployment of clean technologies across the economy. . But thanks to clean energy, this relationship is no longer true.

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Canada ranks dead last among G7 on climate progress: Earth Index

Corporate Knights

And Canada’s performance between 2016 and 2019 was second worst to Russia in terms of making the emission reductions needed to meet its own targets. From 2016 to 2019, Canada saw an average increase of 7.8 billion over several years to fight climate change on top of what the government had provided previously.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels. Carbon removal.

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