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Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

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Increasingly, advances made by individual companies can enable progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—creating investment opportunities along the way. The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how to translate climate knowledge into better investment decisions—and ultimately better outcomes.

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Mastercard: Planting Seeds of Change: How People and Partnerships Tackled Climate Change in 2024

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Mitigating risk from extreme weather Ensuring that Mastercards people and facilities are safe no matter what Mother Nature throws their way is a job Montana Eck and his climate risk and resilience team approach with enthusiasm and empathy.

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With wildfires and droughts, the global water emergency is in plain sight

Corporate Knights

Water usage has been increasing by roughly 1% every year for the last 40 years, according to a new UN report released for the conference – World Water Development Report 2023: Partnerships and Cooperation for Water – a pace that is expected to continue until 2050. billion by 2050. billion by 2050. “If million Somalis and killed 3.8

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BeZero Carbon Raises $32 Million to Expand Carbon Credit Rating Platform into New Markets

ESG Today

Founded in 2020, BeZero is a ratings agency for carbon markets, providing carbon ratings, research and data products, backed by a team of climate scientists, earth observation specialists, data scientists and financial analysts.

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First in Flight: American Airlines Is Leading the Airline Industry on a Science-Based Journey to Net-Zero Emissions

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DESCRIPTION: FORT WORTH, Texas, April 22, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Last summer, American Airlines made a public commitment to develop a science-based, intermediate target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — the first airline in North America to do so. SOURCE: American Airlines. What this means. Accountability is a key component.

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Startups are scaling the direct air capture industry

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As carbon emissions reach record levels and global temperatures surpass a crucial tipping point, climate scientists are calling on carbon capture to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Setting the Standard for Sustainability – Winter 2024 Newsletter

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December brings a close to our 40th anniversary year as a global leader in third-party certification, auditing, and standards development. If youre a business leader, decision-maker, or designer of climate action plans, carbon emissions management or net zero targets, you should watch the recording here. Read the full article here.