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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". California has done exactly that.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

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In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Publication of the KT Project Glossary: The First Comprehensive Terminology Resource Specifically for Capital Projects

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of a projects budget (2013). This challenge costs projects millions of dollars in delays, rework, and waste, leading to the well-known iron law of megaprojects: over budget, over time, over and over again ! According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), ineffective communication jeopardizes 7.5%

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St. Louis Adopts Midwest?s First Building Performance Standard

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Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state.

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How Money Laundering Rules Could Be Used to Tackle Deforestation 

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The idea originated in what they saw as flaws in France’s 2017 duty of vigilance law, which requires all large businesses headquartered in France, and international corporations with a significant presence there, to set out clear measures to prevent human rights violations and environmental damage — even among their subsidiaries.

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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

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“The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release. In the U.S.,

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Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism

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Fama, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, goes as far as arguing stakeholder capitalism is "indefinite and ineffective," for this very reason. Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues "the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success.