Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As a strategy, the net-zero target has been criticized by climate advocates; at its worst, it can be a vague, unenforceable greenwashing program. A significant exception is Azerbaijan, the oil-rich, gas-leaking host of November’s COP29 UN climate change conference, which has no net-zero target. In the U.S.,

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Then, September broke its previous monthly heat record by half a degree Celsius — a margin so stunning that Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist, declared it “ absolutely gobsmackingly bananas.” Climate quitters People who resign from their jobs over concerns about climate change.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Williams may be the current reigning king of climate comedy, but his court of jesters is growing rapidly, thanks in part to private donors, non-profits and family foundations using their resources to support comics making jokes about climate change. But can climate change really be funny? Its an auspicious pairing.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thats why the super election year was also considered crucial for climate change a chance for electorates to install leaders who could shepherd the delicate decisions required to drive down our planet-heating emissions. This suggests that crafting a climate message that resonates shouldnt be that hard. But it has been.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

In the late 20th century, US environmental policies were influenced by a mix of inflamed climate anxiety (surrounding, for example, the 1990s acid rain policies and ozone debates) and powerful, Big Oil-funded climate change denialism that hindered necessary action.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. This point was made in a Guardian article by Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, and the head of a delegation of 11 Ukrainian scientists that contributed to the latest IPCC report. “I

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