Terra Infirma

JULY 3, 2024

And from a human point of view, health costs are rising and could rise further. Back in 2006, Nicholas Stern suggested in his eponymous review that spending 1% of global GDP would prevent climate costs representing 5% of global GDP (he later upped the money required to 2%).

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The 90,000 first responders charged with cleaning up the carnage, along with others who spent time on or near the 9/11 site continue to suffer from serious health effects almost two decades later. According to reports around 20 percent of the people who were exposed to toxic contaminants are suffering from a range of health problems.

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Health Climate change Pollution Construction 52

Green Roof Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

State of the Art Health Care and Green Infrastructure. In 2006, this very successful model was expanded to the fields of oral, jaw and facial surgery, which have since been integrated into the BG hospital. BG Hospital Tübingen. A hospital with LEED certification might be far away from State-of-the-Art.

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Health Europe Plastics Waste 40

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 46

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

From a public health background, Kathryn’s work on livestock industry misrepresentation of the climate and health impacts of red meat consumption was published in the journal Food Policy.

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Fossil fuels Health Pollution Policy 100

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These pollutants, which include particulate matter, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and toxic substances such as benzene, have been linked to health problems ranging from respiratory disorders to reproductive problems to cancer. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance. Losses can be far greater, as experienced by the pharmaceutical company Bausch Health (formerly known as Valeant). Yet, note that this is an average figure.

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Organic Government Sustainability Demand 148

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2006 and 2007, for example, millions of laptops and mobile phones were recalled due to safety fears relating to their Li-ion batteries, and in 2013, a Boeing 787 was grounded following electrical issues with the Li-ion battery in the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit.

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Energy Monitor Batteries Lithium Organic 130

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

Or 1982, when a report of the American Petroleum Institute’s Committee for Environmental Biology and Community Health stated : “Almost all materials of interest and use to the petroleum industry contain measurable quantities of radionuclides that reside finally in process equipment, product streams, or waste.”

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Waste Waste Natural gas Health 142

Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The company's donations will be used to increase access to solar light and power across Africa, with a particular focus on critical rural health clinics. Solarcentury founded SolarAid in 2006 and Statkraft will now continue the relationship.

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Africa Solar Power Health Europe 83

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2022

The actually acronym ESG was first mentioned in the 2006 United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) report consisting of the Freshfield Report and “Who Cares Wins.” ESG criteria became incorporated in the financial evaluations of companies. ESG Framework.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Investment Energy Monitor 147

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Slightly larger particles are known to impact the health and reproductive behaviour of earthworms. A change in the policy landscape seems imminent, as Envirotec found out.

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Microplastics Plastics Soil Waste 222

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Flooding in Henderson, Nevada in October 2006 (image credit: Allen , CC BY-NC 2.0 It is hoped the free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help all countries but especially those in the global south, where flood risk maps are rare and often badly out of date.

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Climate change Agriculture Europe Asia 130

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

She said that increases in tree cover and green spaces are shown to help cool urban areas down and create natural flood defences, while also helping to boost urban wildlife by creating new habitats, which can in turn help improve human health and well-being. The regrowth then provides homes for a variety of insects and birds, the RSPB said.

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Resilience Biodiversity Home Energy Monitoring Health 98

Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s not as visibly lush as a fescue field, but the benefits to cattle health, soil health, and climate resistance make it worth it. “It The southeastern U.S.,

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 145

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In its early days until the California Solar Initiative was launched in 2006, the program promoted customers’ onsite solar photovoltaic projects. A critical services facility, such as police and fire stations, emergency responders, health care facilities, cooling centers, and others providing critical functions.

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Natural gas Batteries Electricity Resilience 100

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. Senegal, for instance, banned imports of frozen chicken in 2006, making local production essential to KFC’s entrance into the country. as clients. The resolution process is ongoing.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 127

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement in 2006. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities.

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Education Sustainability Climate change Waste 138

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

Requiring just two staff to deploy rather than perhaps the six or more needed to install a conventional met mast, Eunice represents an obvious cost benefit but also a health and safety advantage given that Lidars don’t require any work to be undertaken at height. Eunice remains in robust good health and is nowhere near retirement age.

Home Energy Monitoring 115

Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 115

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Coiote IoT Device Maanagement Platform’s LwM2M standardization has been instrumental in providing valuable insights into device health, enabling real-time monitoring to support informed decision-making.

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IoT Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 64

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

In a subsequent speech , he remarked presciently that it was "not an exaggeration to say that one of the greatest challenges facing us as we move towards the millennium is that of reconciling environmental health and transport policies".

Politics 95

Politics Climate change Policy Health 95

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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Carbon-neutral Global warming Health Climate change 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The UN describes the health and environmental implications of consuming animal products as “complex” and works to ensure that low-income groups have access to animal-based foods but argues that other, wealthier populations need to eat less of them. Vion, NAMI and ELV did not respond to DeSmog’s requests to comment on this story.

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Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This was due to ongoing scientific research and publications such as Silent Spring , plus the creation of bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions (EEOC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

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Ethics Law Demand Sustainability 148

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This was due to ongoing scientific research and publications such as Silent Spring , plus the creation of bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions (EEOC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Ethics 148

Ethics Law Demand Sustainability 148

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

S includes labor relations, diversity, inclusion, philanthropy, and charity work, supplier support, and health and safety provision. For instance, a 2020 report by Carrots and Sticks gives three interesting insights: The total number of voluntary and mandatory provisions in different countries has increased significantly since 2006.

Organic 148

Organic Sustainability Government Investment 148

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2006, TNC received a $1 million gift from the timber behemoth Weyerhaeuser that included a statement that the two entities “agreed to work collaboratively to improve their understanding of managed forests.” They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now. coal burning.”.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 14, 2021

They get the sickest from diesel exhaust while having the least access to health care. And because e-buses improve the health of all the above. I’ve been in the transportation field since 2006, specializing in electric buses since 2016. If only one of those describes you, I hope you keep reading regardless! I can do better.

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Electricity Education Transportation Health 70

E8 Cleantech Angels

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Since 2006, E8 has offered accredited individuals a way to invest in emerging enterprises which share the group’s mission to accelerate the transition to a prosperous and sustainable world. in 98 companies from North America and beyond. All investment numbers are self-reported by E8 members.

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Investment Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 40

E8 Cleantech Angels

MAY 8, 2020

Since 2006, E8 has offered accredited individuals a way to invest in emerging enterprises which share the group’s mission to accelerate the transition to a prosperous and sustainable world. in 98 companies from North America and beyond. All investment numbers are self-reported by E8 members.

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Investment Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 40

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 2006, in his first bid for public office, Deval Patrick became Massachusetts’s first African-American governor. Speakers Over 100 speakers including Deval Patrick the former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Managing Director, Bain Capital Double Impact.

Organic 40

Organic Biotechnology Incubators Incubators 40

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Since the ITC’s enactment in 2006, the U.S. and exacerbates public health inequities in communities exposed to air pollution along highways, ports, and rail yards. With tax incentives for clean electricity and clean transportation, Wall Street can bolster decarbonization while making climate tech investing more financially viable.

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Methane Climate change Transportation Pollution 52

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

The organization is committed to creating a future where buildings are designed and operated with resource efficiency and occupant health in mind. Founded in 2006, ILFI works with individuals, organizations and institutions around the world to develop sustainable strategies for transforming the built environment.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 148

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. The city took a series of coordinated action so that the experience of 2006 was not repeated. And most of the cities, which are still rapidly expanding, are not prepared for it, although there are a few exceptions.

Climate change 40

Climate change Energy Monitor Sea level rise Building Energy Monitoring 40

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

Energy Monitor 40

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Global warming 40

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

CARB first took action to regulate SF6 in 2007, designating the reduction of SF6 emissions from electricity transmission and distribution equipment a high priority “early action measure” under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

Energy Monitor 40

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Global warming 40

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

tobacco companies faced along the way to a federal court judgment in 2006 for more than half a century of deceiving the public about the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke. Oil companies could fear that climate lawsuits will subject them to the same kind of public exposure that U.S.

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