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Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

3BL Media

AB investors are working with the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute to upgrade the Center’s US Natural Hazards Index (NHI), which was designed in 2017 to help US households prepare for emergencies.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

A spokesperson from IKEA stressed that ocean shipping made up 40 percent of the carbon footprint of its supply chain operations and therefore the company's pledge to reduce the carbon footprint of all transport by an average of 70 percent by 2030 compared to 2017 was a "huge ambition."

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Tiffany & Co. Commits to Science-Based Climate Targets

3BL Media

Founded in 2017, TOSHI offers 60-minute, client-scheduled deliveries for online luxury clients and executes all deliveries with net-zero carbon emissions. In committing to net-zero by 2040, 10 years earlier than what is called for in the Paris Climate Agreement, Tiffany & Co. C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an evangelical Christian climate scientist — and a breath of fresh air

Good.is: Planet

Hayhoe is the Director of the Climate Change Center at Texas Tech University. She was named one of Time's Most Influential People in 2014, one of Fortune's 50 Greatest Leaders in 2017, and recently received a U.N. Champion of the Earth award for Science and Innovation.

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The Continued Growth of Green Jobs

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Since 2017, jobs requiring green skills have been steadily increasing as government agencies and companies started to realize that they needed to step up their commitments and actions in order to achieve climate and sustainability goals. In December, GreenBiz noted they expect demand to create millions of new jobs worldwide by 2030.

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Carbon Capture and Storage, Today and Tomorrow

Sense and Sustainability

For decades, the idea of capturing carbon—either from emissions sites or from the atmosphere itself—was relegated to arcane discussions among climate scientists. The report’s authors argued for aggressive exploration of the “possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes.” In 1965, the U.S.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Tackle Climate Change?

Sense and Sustainability

And, although machines are not fully trusted, climate scientists can work with them to make better progress. It is an almost indisputable fact that only when acting together can industries and governments reduce emissions and humans’ impact on the climate. How Can Monitoring and Measuring Be Useful?