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A microbial scourge as urgent as climate change

Corporate Knights

Called antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, this survival tactic has created a crisis that experts say is as urgent as climate change. A 2023 article in The Lancet connected animal antibiotic consumption with resistance in human diseases: in 2017, AMR was implicated in the deaths of 1.27 Bacteria, however, haven’t survived for 3.5

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The Palisades Fire is the first big test for California's new home insurance scheme

Corporate Knights

Over the past five years, California has become a poster child for what climate-fueled weather disasters can do to a states home insurance market. RELATED What 2024s costly climate disasters mean for home insurance rates in 2025 Where old-growth forests are clear-cut, theres fire Is the insurance industry walking away from fossil fuels?

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Essity on CDP’s Prestigious A List for Climate

3BL Media

The recognition from CDP shows Essitys commitment to become net zero by 2050 and our engagement in the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) since 2017. Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and its global effects are far-reaching.

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Voting rights advocate Jerome Foster is raising youth climate awareness

GreenBiz

In 2017, Foster created his second entrepreneurial venture in digital media, The Climate Reporter, a collection of international youth writing about climate change, global warming and environmental justice,

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COP27 litmus test: Will wealthy countries finally pay for climate change loss and damage?

Corporate Knights

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

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Ten good news stories on climate and clean energy in 2024

Corporate Knights

But its true: Canada and the world made enormous strides addressing climate change and building a cleaner economy. In fact, gas vehicle sales in Canada peaked in 2017 and have been falling ever since. There was a lot to choose from something that may not be immediately apparent in the aftermath of the U.S. nationally.

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Companies that mitigate climate change reduce their cost of capital

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

A recent study explored the relationship between corporate climate change mitigation actions and the cost of capital for 2,100 Japanese listed companies from 2017 to 2021. The findings reveal that companies that maintain lower carbon intensity and disclose more climate-related information can reduce their capital costs.