How to build a business plan from your academic sustainability research
GreenBiz
MARCH 14, 2022
Some of the most important research on climate changing is happening in academia, but getting it from the lab to the investor table is key.
Surrey academic wins air quality’s ‘Nobel Prize’
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
CARB is the lead agency for climate change programs and oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health-based air quality standards. The award is named after Dr Arie J. . This year’s awardees reflect the necessary and diverse work that is needed to achieve clean air. ”
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SAP at COP28: Navigating Climate Change Together
3BL Media
DECEMBER 5, 2023
The world is watching as tens of thousands of leaders gather for the 28 th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, from November 30 to December 12. Climate change poses an unparalleled challenge that necessitates collective effort – a challenge no single entity can tackle alone.
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New Report Finds Half of All Credit Union Industry Assets at Risk From Climate Change
3BL Media
MAY 10, 2022
The report, The Changing Climate for Credit Unions , finds that more than 60% of all credit unions—and at least $1.2 trillion in credit union assets—are at physical risk from climate change. The report argues that it is incredibly risky for credit unions to ignore the climate threats with 60% of U.S.
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Canada’s plan to phase out animal testing suffers a setback
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Although the department didn't provide a direct answer, spokesperson Marie-Pier Burelle stated that it and Environment and Climate Change Canada “are leading and collaborating on a range of scientific and research activities related to animal testing alternatives.”
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Dreaming of a just and sustainable future? Read these.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Bullard and Wright book provides a bridge of sorts to the more academic titles that follow, works that shift the focus from environmental justice to climate justice. Youll receive a roundup of Yale Climate Connections stories plus tips to help you stay safe in a changing climate in your inbox each week.
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Scientists and climate change: Extreme concern and high level of engagement
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 5, 2024
Scientists from across academic disciplines are extremely concerned about climate change. Many of them have already changed their own lifestyles or engaged in advocacy and protest, with even more being willing to do so in future. This is evident from a large-scale survey of scientists from all over the world.
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New report reveals fast fashion's reliance on fracked gas in Texas
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Petrochemical-generated synthetic fibers such as polyester, nylon and acrylic are expected to make up for 73% of global apparel production by 2030, according to a report by the Changing Markets Foundation ,despite these fibers having links to exacerbated climate change, health risks and increased waste.
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Study Confirms Significance of Reducing Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Protect the Future of the Olympic Winter Games
3BL Media
JANUARY 22, 2025
International Olympic Committee news As world leaders meet at COP29 to agree actions to address the climate crisis, a new study illustrates how effective climate action could reduce the impact of climate change on winter sport. These decisions are supported by extensive consultation and scientific evidence.
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How the climate crisis will crash the economy
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.
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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
How did the fossil fuel industry manage to raise a generation of climate change deniers? A research group has just identified a big component of that attitude shift: the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to bury the truth by cozying up to universities and discrediting climate science.
Celebrating the International Day of Education - How DP World Is Helping Prepare the Next Generation
3BL Media
JANUARY 21, 2025
In Ecuador, DP World has partnered with ESPOL University to deliver a port-focused technical qualification through the Academic Unit for Technical and Technological Training (AUFTT) in Posorja. Recognizing Academic Excellence Celebrating student success is just as important as creating opportunities.
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AB and Columbia Climate School Kicked Off Its Climate Change Curriculum 2.0
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Last week, AB and Columbia Climate School kicked off the first module of its Climate Change Curriculum 2.0, We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.
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Chemours Joins University of Kansas-Led Collaborative the Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) To Advance Sustainable Cooling Technologies
3BL Media
MARCH 11, 2025
By bringing together industry leaders, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), refrigerant reclaimers, and academic institutions, EARTH aims to drive innovation and create practical solutions that can be implemented on a global scale. The role of HFCs in mitigating 21st century climate change. 22 (9), 6087-6101 (2022).
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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. While these efforts to tackle climate change can have some positive impacts on reducing nature loss to some extent, they are nowhere near enough and can create unintended consequences.
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Central Banks and Climate Change
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 3, 2021
Central banks are increasingly called upon to address climate change. Proposals for central bank action on climate change range from programs of “green” quantitative easing, to increases in risk-based capital requirements to deter banks from lending to climate-unfriendly business.
As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
An undergraduate course on “sustainability as a strategic lever for companies” explores corporate practices (good and bad) that play out in global circumstances of poverty, social inequality, resource scarcity and climate change. Some academics successfully pivoted years ago. How fantastic is that?”.
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Should corporations be activists?
Corporate Knights
MAY 3, 2022
The co-author of Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering, to be released this year, offers his admittedly unpopular remedy: global government intervention to price carbon and embrace renewable energy. How do we propel companies beyond “islands of sustainability”?
Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress
GreenBiz
APRIL 19, 2021
Close to 90 percent of the S&P 500 now produce sustainability reports and a preponderance of academic research touts the link between ESG and equity returns. Excluding tobacco from a fund will not have any impact on climate change. The final third of ESG investment also is wrought with classification challenges.
Cascale and FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE To Accelerate Science-Based Targets for the Fashion Industry
3BL Media
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Cascales collaboration with FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE serves as a key initiative in accelerating progress toward Cascales goal of 80 percent SBT or SAT adoption among its corporate membersincluding brands, retailers, holding groups, third-party retailers, and manufacturersand reinforces the organizations commitment to combating climate change.
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Most Canadians want their investments to align with climate action
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The proposal moves beyond traditional frameworks, which consider only how the financial sector is affected by climate risk, to also tackle how investments in polluting industries can make climate change worse. The bill would create a duty for leaders of financial institutions to consider – and take – climate action.
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Academic paper highlights AD’s current and future carbon footprint
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Providing evidence of Climate Action is critically needed and what Malaby Biogas is planning in Wiltshire is evidence of this. The AD industry is part of the secret war tacking climate change. Making a carbon trading scheme accessible to all sectors and at all scales will help drive the change we urgently need.
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Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 23, 2022
Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said.
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Is it time for a ‘planned retreat’ from building near flood plains?
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 31, 2022
Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.
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Climate disasters, traumatic events have long-term impacts on youths' academics
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
JUNE 30, 2023
Experiencing traumatic events such as natural disasters may have long-term consequences for the academic progress and future food security of youth -- a problem researchers said could worsen with the increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change.
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WEF Launches Initiative to Channel $3 Trillion per Year to Tackle Climate Change & Nature Loss
ESG Today
JANUARY 17, 2023
The post WEF Launches Initiative to Channel $3 Trillion per Year to Tackle Climate Change & Nature Loss appeared first on ESG Today.
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Return of the original Corporate Knight
Corporate Knights
JUNE 29, 2022
But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” Benedek took a job at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he was briefly a professor.
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African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Addressing climate change impacts in Africa Europe’s colonial rule in Africa may have largely ended by the 1960s, but its legacy has profoundly influenced the continent’s modern education system. But now, African business schools are developing programs that move beyond colonial influences toward a more inclusive and relevant future.
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The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting
GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2021
For example, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business looked at more than 1,000 academic studies published between 2015 and 2020 on the correlation between financial and ESG performance. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.
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Can sustainability save capitalism?
GreenBiz
MARCH 30, 2021
For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. Few were taken seriously outside those circles. But it’s a different time. The conversation is growing, and not just among those selfsame insiders.
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Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Bankman-Fried was one of the largest donors to and a huge proponent of effective altruism, a social and philosophical movement started by academics Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. KEYWORDS: altruism, Longtermism, philanthropy, cryptocurrency, climate change.
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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Stanford Social Innovation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
While academics in the Global North increasingly focus on relevance, they still tend to neglect engaging with grand challenges for the Global South. This raises the question: How can academics from the Global North have an impact without imposing their ideas and mindset on people in the Global South? Create time and resource buffers.
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Cascale, Worldly Publish Analysis on California’s Climate Laws
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Strengthening enforcement at the national level, while drawing on established global standards and industry initiatives, will therefore be key to driving meaningful progress on combating climate change.” The analysis breaks down the core components of the legislation.
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The Real Climate Heroes; Defying Logic To Create a Positive Future
3BL Media
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Their research included areas such as the effects of melting glaciers on phytoplankton communities in the Antarctic, how deep-sea, low-oxygen ecosystems are affected by climate change, and how the ocean responds to tropical cyclones, warming and the impacts of sea-level rise.
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The scientists who switched focus to fight climate change
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 17, 2022
Four researchers describe how they found different ways of responding to the planet’s biggest threat — from quitting tenure to overhauling their academic programme. Read the full story in Nature.
Scotiabank's Net-Zero Research Fund Now Accepting Applications in Celebration of World Environment Day
3BL Media
JUNE 13, 2022
DESCRIPTION: TORONTO, June 13, 2022 /3BL Media/ - In celebration of World Environment Day, Scotiabank is announcing that from now until July 14th, Scotiabank's Net-Zero Research Fund is accepting funding applications from think tanks and academic institutions that are supporting key sectors in their efforts to decarbonize the economy.
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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts
GreenBiz
APRIL 7, 2021
Take the example of the Climate Just tool, which combines open data from government and academic sources to visually display how heatwaves, flooding and other extreme climate events will affect disadvantaged and impoverished communities. Improved modeling.
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What to do with old coal plants, gas stations in the energy transition? Recycle them
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 23, 2024
As outlined by academic Ian Urquhart earlier this year, the government’s seven-month moratorium banned all new projects under the rationale they threatened the province’s best agricultural lands and “Alberta’s pristine landscapes.” The idea of recycling or reusing applies not just to fossil fuels, but to renewable energy policies as well.
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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.
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New Ways To Sequester Carbon Despite Retreat From Climate Change Action
Energy Central
APRIL 2, 2025
To invent cheaper solutions, universities are coming to the rescue, where academics are looking to mimic natural processes and. The companies want to make it profitable. Currently, the cost per captured ton of CO2 is prohibitive.
Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, wildfire survivors study shows
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
by Jyoti Mishra, University of California, San Diego The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Climate change … Continue reading Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, wildfire survivors study shows
An Emerging Priority in Climate Resilience: How Zambia’s Green Growth Strategy — And its Business Sector — Are Addressing the Risk of Climate-Induced Social Instability
James Militzer
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The strategy also includes a focus on the impacts of climate change on peace and security, adopting insights from research and recommendations made by our team at CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security , which were informed by stakeholder consultations and extensive fieldwork in the country’s Southern Province.
Marine protected areas overwhelmingly manage with climate change in mind
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 8, 2023
The disconnect can leave academics and practitioners disheartened and a bit frustrated. Scientific findings don't always translate neatly into actions, especially in conservation and resource management.
Antioch University Receives $1 Million Gift to Create the Tom Wessels Environmental Scholarship
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Scholarships to be Awarded to Historically Underrepresented and Most Academically Qualified Students. MS on Resource Management and Administration with three curricular pathways in Leadership and Management of Sustainable Systems, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, and International Development and Climate Change.
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