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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

The United Nations’ Paris Agreement charts the international community’s plan for limiting the impact of climate change. There are multiple calculators and other EPA-approved resources available online to help businesses calculate both their carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. What Is Climate Neutrality?

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3 cost-effective steps President Biden can take to accelerate a clean energy revolution

Renewable Energy World

I was equally thrilled to see the new President appoint former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and Ali Zaidi to the top two climate advisory positions in his administration. All three have an impressive track record of moving the country towards a sustainable future for generations to come.

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Earth Day – Climate Week – The World Celebrates Promises and Actions to Meet Climate Change Challenges

Sustainability Update

is fully “back” in climate change matters with the nation rejoining the Paris Agreement and embracing and promising to surpass the COP temperature-limiting goals. And more related content to share on G&A’s Sustainability Update blog. Good news for 2021: The U.S.A. TOP STORIES. finance (Source: Ceres ).

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Take Five: Biden’s Gear Shift

Chris Hall

On Wednesday, the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled new pollution standards that will require EVs to make up 35-56% of new car and truck sales by 2032, with plug-in hybrids accounting for 13-36%. Gear shift – Joe Biden famously characterises himself as a “ car guy ”.

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The U.S.A. & the 2015 Paris Accord: Five Years On, the Largest Economy on Earth Promises to Return – With a Cabinet of Climate Change Champions Preparing for Action

Sustainability Update

December 20 2020 – published again in the blog in October 2021 as President Joe Biden travels to the Stockholm meeting of the COP 26. Seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the great promise of the 21st Century in 2015 – the Paris Accord. The Paris climate pact is 5 years old. Secretary Kerry was the U.S.

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Towards Sustainable Global Leadership: How the IRA Catalyzes 21st Century U.S. Global Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

The IRA taxes the wealthiest corporate interests and saves on drug benefit-related waste to be able to fund needed Medicare and ACA health benefits, as well as Paris Agreement-aligned climate action, while still enabling it to reduce the deficit by more than $270 billion. . states to be more ambitious in their climate strategy.