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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. planets to provide the resources needed to produce goods and absorb waste (Global Footprint Network 2020).

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Reusing captured carbon: ripe for a reappraisal?

Envirotec Magazine

But a new paper published on 18 February in the journal One Earth calls into question the viability of such methods to meet both the long-term and short-term goals that follow from the Paris Agreement and seems to make the case for technologies that use non-fossil carbon dioxide and store carbon permanently.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

The SEC’s move also comes as the need for more ambitious climate action becomes increasingly urgent. The IPCC, the UN’s climate research body, recently found that the world is currently on track for temperature increases more than double the 1.5°C C goal set in the Paris Agreement. Microsoft ’s verified 1.5°C

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These 30 under 30 are leading a green youthquake

Corporate Knights

Or, as Redinger puts it, turning microbes in food waste “into miniature dye factories” that produce vegan colourants that are longer-lasting than plant-based dyes. million in financing so she can scale up her waste-diversion process to reach her goal of diverting 500,000 kilograms of waste from treatment and landfill by 2030.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

These droughts, bushfires, powerful storms and heat waves amplify the scientific evidence predicted by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that we are already living in a changed climate.”.