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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

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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African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education

Corporate Knights

Across the continent, business schools are embracing local narratives , turning the classroom into a space where African ingenuity and global relevance meet and changing how students see themselves – not just as participants but as creators of a more sustainable and equitable global economy.

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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

For years — decades, even — there has been a steady stream of visions and proposals aimed at, variously, reforming, rethinking, reimagining, reinventing, redefining and rebooting the operating system that drives capitalist economies. Few were taken seriously outside those circles. But it’s a different time.

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Bloomberg 2023 Impact Report: Supporting Climate Action

3BL Media

Originally published in Bloomberg's 2023 Impact Report Structural and systemic shifts accompanying climate change, such as resource scarcity, new technologies and regulations, pose business risks and offer opportunities to issuers and investors globally. Reporting on the business and science of climate change Bloomberg L.P.’s

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Guest Post: Climate Risks To Financial Performance Are Hugely Under-estimated

ESG Today

By: Emma Cutler, Senior Analyst, Verdantix News of climate change- and El Nino-driven drought slowing traffic in the Panama Canal hit headlines last week. Where the news will likely never appear, however, is firms’ own reporting, even for those that experience significant losses, at least not as a climate-related loss.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. And in America, Deloitte projects that inaction on climate would contract our GDP by 4% in the next 50 years.

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Sounding the Alarm on Global Learning Poverty

3BL Media

UNESCO has long advocated for education in the mother tongue , citing research that shows this is key to improving learning outcomes and academic performance. trillion in increased productivity to the global economy. As part of its commitment, UNESCO sponsors International Mother Language Day each year.