GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

My interest in issues like climate change stems from my early career in public service on the graduate program at Her Majesty’s Treasury. I worked as chief of staff for — now Lord, then Sir — Nick Stern on his landmark review on the economics of climate change. Houde: What’s the investor outlook for ESG?

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Corporate Knights

JULY 19, 2024

The Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre, which provides Kindergarten to Grade 12 online education to Saskatchewan students, partnered with Teine Energy, an Alberta-based company to develop the courses. Relevant climate education needed Education is indeed key to addressing the climate crisis , but how this is done matters immensely.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 24, 2023

billion will enable it to profit from tackling climate change while continuing to extract oil and gas for 60 or more years into the future, says CEO Vicki Hollub. The acquisition enables Occidental to catalyze broader development partnerships for DAC deployment in the most capital efficient and valuable way,” Hollub said.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Climate change has been a key investment strategy focus, as more investors subscribe to the overwhelming conclusion of climate scientists that the Earth’s climate is warming, and human activity is the primary driver of this warming. This naturally leads to the question of the role companies and investors can play.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The climate crisis is a massive global problem, which we are totally failing to get to grips with. The solutions to climate change are remarkably simple, if only we’d get on with them. Will the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt starting November 6 bring any new breakthroughs? Here are steps to get them started.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unusual in the sense that John, although with deep liberal values, never developed a partisan edge. We can see his influence in Canada’s work on climate change. His approach was to find the right partners - climate scientists, economists, engineers, and more - and bring them together.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As we kick off Climate Week in New York today, I’ve been reflecting on our teams’ climate-related work over the last year. We believe that climate change can have a material impact on investment outcomes. One way we do this is through our collaboration with Columbia University’s Climate School and its climate scientists.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

As such, attention is likely to quickly turn to alternative avenues for accelerating the development and adoption of the lower-carbon shipping technologies and practices that remain in the pipeline. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping. BusinessGreen. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 12, 2021

Climate scientists expect private vehicle usage to surpass pre-pandemic levels. Pre-pandemic, tech companies, including Google and Facebook, developed plans to create onsite housing at their campuses. Fortunately, the vaccine is just around the corner," Nachum said.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 /3BL/ - Today, the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) formally launches two innovative programs to accelerate the fight against climate change. s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). EMERYVILLE, Calif.,

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 21, 2024

He is also a professor at the University of Maryland and a climate scientist specializing in the global carbon cycle. In the interview below, Dr. Zeng shares about Carbon Lockdown’s unique approach to CDR and the verifiable impact Carbon Lockdown’s wood vault is having on the fight against climate change.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But, can artificial intelligence make a positive contribution to understanding the problems caused by climate change too, problems gradually turning into a crisis? In fact, AI can help climate researchers find solutions in many areas such as air pollution. How Can Monitoring and Measuring Be Useful? Image courtesy of Flickr.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. It means developing sustainable finance taxonomies and implementing disclosure standards in support of a 1.5 °C

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models. Some actuaries are arguing that “narrative scenarios” – qualitative information to accompany the quantitative data to provide context around climate-related metrics – would help.

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 29, 2022

Cisco is committed to ensuring a sustainable and regenerative planet with ongoing initiatives and solutions aimed at reducing emissions and addressing climate change.? . That’s why the Cisco Foundation announced a new 10-year, US$100 million commitment to fund nonprofit grants and impact investing in climate solutions.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this episode, we’ll speak to researcher John Cook and activist Jon Leland to unpack how we can better communicate about the climate—with skeptics and believers alike. John Cook | Monash University Climate Change Communication Research Hub | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He’s seen weather patterns change.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

Between the climate crisis and continued interruptions in the global energy supply chain, an increasing number of companies and governments are preparing to transition to more sustainable and diversified energy systems. Climate impact on peace and security. Skill development in energy transition. Sustainable mobility.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Finally, funding mechanisms and financial support for mitigation and adaptation efforts, especially in developing countries, are likely to remain a central point of discussion. C – the figure climate scientists currently define as the threshold of safety. These projects are a key component in that effort.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Researchers from the University of Bristol and across the world are joining forces this week, in a professed bid to advance early warning systems and disaster preparedness across southern Africa, as climate change worsens.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Johnston says that “we scaled community” to include not just cities, but whole countries, the world and the climate.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Seeking partners outside of the tech world helps nonprofits develop AI solutions that are context-aware, equitable, and resource-sensitive. Tools developed from a tech-centric approach might fail to account for bias, equity, or accessibility.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Breaking with tradition Finance Watch’s latest report , released this week, underscores the stark reality of rising climate risks and calls for economic models that do not mislead, scenario analyses that prepare the market, and a new prudential tool to address the build-up of systemic climate risk.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Professor Steve Keen says asset owners should dedicate more investments to the climate transition, while prioritising scientific predictions over economic ones. Institutional investors are ill-prepared for the impending societal and economic changes likely to be triggered by climate change and have their priorities all wrong.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

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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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

Aegon’s work in this area is still evolving, and its monitoring of asset managers on responsible investment will likely start to include policy engagement, reflecting limitations to shareholder engagement on tackling climate change. “You can’t diversify away from a systemic risk like climate change,” said Chew. “We

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This focus on a green economy can, in part, be attributed to 2021 meetings including the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Impact Development Summit , the UN General Assembly , and COP26 , where discussions were focused on making a concerted shift toward a green economy around the globe. Last fall, Inc.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 7, 2014

STUDY CHARTS PATH TO LOW CARBON IN MAJOR EMITTING COUNTRIES First Global Cooperative Effort Aims to Support UN Climate Talks A report for the United Nations released today shows how the major emitting countries can cut their carbon emissions by mid-century in order to prevent dangerous climate change.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Download the press releases: English | Portuguese | Spanish NEW YORK 08 February — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced today that Carlos Nobre, one of the top climate scientists in Brazil, and Co-Chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), has won the 2021 AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

SAC CEO, Amina Razvi, began her welcome address by asserting the importance of collaboration in creating transformational change within the textile and apparel industry. Reflecting on the recent reports by climate scientists, warning that our world's temperature could surpass the critical threshold of 1.5°C

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 2, 2024

It is quite another to enter the type of collaboration that our colleague Ziyad Duron undertook, as an academic engineer collaborating with firefighters on the development of an early warning sensor system to detect structural instability when battling fires. In this respect, social systems are remarkably insular.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

In an eventful week, the words of climate scientists reverberated around the world. Released Monday , the Synthesis Report that concluded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment cycle confirmed much we already knew.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

COP28 offers a historic opportunity to drastically change course on climate change. The chorus of voices calling for change is growing louder, and the world’s leading companies are ready and willing to act. Moreover, they are more likely to have ambitious science-based climate change targets.

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 1, 2023

Even though thousands of the world’s most relevant, respected, and peer-reviewed climate scientists have warned for decades that deep, broad, and urgent action is needed to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of our climate and ecological breakdown.1 Because carbon emissions continue up, always.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

October 22, 2024 /3BL/ - The Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) will host a panel of top climate scientists and entrepreneurs speaking out on the growing importance of reducing aggressive climate super pollutants including methane, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and HFCs that are responsible for nearly half of all global warming.

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