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Snow, Climate Change and the Olympic Winter Games

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: With the impacts of climate change accelerating, snow conditions in many parts of the world vary significantly from year to year. In 2019, it received more than 86 million tourists and revenue of over RMB 100 billion, up by over 20 per cent on the previous year. What is the IOC doing to help address climate change?

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Corporations must change climate obstructionist industry associations from within

Corporate Knights

The window to take action on climate change is closing. The global scientific community now has the official backing of hundreds of government and business leaders who agree that we must transition to a net-zero-carbon economy, and yet getting strong climate regulations in place has proven a challenge.

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Burberry’s Net Zero Emissions Goals Approved by SBTi

ESG Today

SBTi is one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of addressing and limiting climate change. SBTi also tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. Elsa Wenzel.

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Stewardship a “Critical Component” of Border to Coast’s Climate Strategy

Chris Hall

billion) of investments on behalf of 11 LGPS funds – released its latest Climate Change Report alongside its annual Responsible Investment (RI) and Stewardship Report. The scheme updated its voting guidelines for the 2024 proxy voting season to strengthen its stance on climate change. billion (US$68.8

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Beijing's Shougang Park: How the Olympic Games Helped Turn a Steel Mill Into a Trendy Urban Area

3BL Media

In 2016, C40 – a global network of mayors taking urgent action to address climate change– recognised Shougang as an ambitious low-carbon project, accepting it into their Climate Positive Development Programme. With a total area of about 5,500m2, the Big Air Shougang can accommodate more than 8,000 spectators.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change. C Science Based Target in 2019 and Intuit’s next goal is a “climate-positive” one – aiming to reduce global emissions by 50x from its 2018 operational footprint over the next decade. The company set a verified 1.5°C

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