COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality
GreenBiz
MARCH 16, 2020
Consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world.
Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2021
Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00.
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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 26, 2020
These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The battle against climate change is vital.
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Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change
GreenBiz
AUGUST 7, 2020
Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change. Green spaces can help to improve people’s mental health , reduce the harmful effects of air pollution , and even counter the phenomenon of heat islands in cities, where expanses of concrete and asphalt raise temperatures unnaturally high. Alex Thornton.
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Climate change is the biggest public health issue
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
More than 220 of the world’s top public health and medical journals have published a joint plea for the global population to reduce carbon emissions immediately. Humanity already faces irreversible public health threats, the editors wrote. We can’t wait for the pandemic to end before we face the task of reducing emissions.
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80% of oil workers considering career impacts of climate change
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
Eight in ten Scots oil workers have considered that their careers could be impacted by actions being taken to tackle climate change, new research suggests. The post 80% of oil workers considering career impacts of climate change first appeared on Envirotec.
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Surrey academic wins air quality’s ‘Nobel Prize’
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
” CARB’s mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through the effective reduction of air pollutants while recognising and considering its effects on the economy. The award is named after Dr Arie J. .
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Seaweed: a model solution for fighting climate change, says group
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2021
A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage.
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New ADEPT president launches climate change policy position
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 31, 2022
Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.
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Climate change will reshuffle marine ecosystems in unexpected ways
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers Univeristy study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species from keeping up with the conditions where they could thrive.
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Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2021
Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. It’s a vicious circle not only leading to extreme weather but also collapsing food systems, and increasing risks of dangerous pathogens, zoonoses and other health impacts.”.
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Anthropogenic air pollution impacts health and climate in the Middle East
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
But now a research group seems to have shown that pollution from anthropogenic sources contributes to health risks and is an important climate factor across the region. Our study highlights how anthropogenic air pollution is a leading health risk and important climactic factor across the Middle East.”.
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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals
GreenBiz
MAY 18, 2020
Simply stated, they are: Revolutionize health and safety with technology. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. Make technology fully inclusive and expand digital readiness.
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‘Future of Workplace Sustainability Report’ explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 20, 2020
“ The Future of Workplace Sustainability Report ” explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace. ” This year Unily seemingly embarked on its own sustainability journey to actively review how they can do more as a company to reduce the impact of climate change.
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Study recognizes crucial role of groundwater in planetary health
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 5, 2024
An international study classifies groundwater as a keystone ecosystem and proposes ways to improve its protection to preserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change Water is the basis of all life on Earth. Urban populations depend on it Groundwater is the largest unfrozen reserve of freshwater on Earth.
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Action urged over climate change’s impact on hydropower and wildlife
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 22, 2025
Scotland must do more to help hydropower facilities maximise their output and prevent negative impacts on wildlife in the face of the challenges posed by climate change, according to a new report. While hydropower is vital for meeting climate change targets, care must be taken to minimise its impacts on river health and ecosystems.
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Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate
Grist
JANUARY 30, 2024
In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? The world has changed a great deal since.
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Gina McCarthy: Protecting the planet for all people
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. Business community role. Pull Quote.
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Questions Answered on Canadian Wildfires—a Public Health Threat Linked to Climate Change
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 12, 2023
Here is some key information that may help us prepare for the future and address the fossil fuels at the root of the problem.
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How will climate change affect microplastics already in the environment?
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 30, 2024
Understanding why climate change might contribute to increasing plastic pollution is the focus of a new research project starting this month at the University of Portsmouth. As far as we know this is the first time this has been looked at in conjunction with climate change.”
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Genomic analysis reveals milestones in evolution of brown algae
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 20, 2024
It also explores practical applications in aquaculture, biotechnology, and climate change mitigation, emphasizing brown algae’s potential for carbon capture and ecosystem restoration, while offering valuable insights into enhancing ecological resilience amid climatic challenges.
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What I learned about water in 2020
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 30, 2020
We also witnessed the emergence of EOS technologies to provide real-time water quality, ecosystem health and flood prediction analytics from satellite data acquisition and analytics companies (such as Gybe , 52 Impact and Cloud to Street ). We can solve climate change and water and need to focus on both.
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Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate Change
Andrew Winston
APRIL 22, 2024
Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Even ExxonMobil, a company that has spent decades muddying the science on climate change, wrote in a recent report : “[On] a list of the biggest challenges facing humankind … addressing poverty and climate change would be at the top.”) degrees Celsius (2.7
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How the climate crisis will crash the economy
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours. Sub-systemic shocks.
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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2021
The startup has created a recycling ecosystem tracked by blockchain where members receive a premium for the materials they collect, which in turn helps them provide basic family necessities such as groceries, school tuition and health insurance. Promote good health and wellbeing. Provide access to clean water. Shockingly, 2.2
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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production
GreenBiz
JUNE 10, 2020
Yet, swirling beneath the surface all of the major issues of the 21st century — climate change, globalization, immigration, women’s rights and wealth inequity — are being played out in remote coffee villages around the world. . As a result, coffee production will be greatly limited in medium and lower elevations by 2030 to 2050.
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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. Will they continue with health care and wages as usual? Climate Change.
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Partnering with Beavers to Adapt to Climate Change
NRDC onEarth
AUGUST 23, 2023
Beavers and their habitat increase ecosystem health and help people and wildlife adapt to a warmer planet.
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What the limits of traditional accounting mean for the future of food
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. Some will transact to future generations and others will cost the climate.
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Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products
GreenBiz
AUGUST 21, 2020
We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product,” Brown-West said. This step could set retailers on the path to offer products with safer chemicals and reduce their climate impact.
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Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity
Grist
DECEMBER 18, 2024
But these policies often address climate change in isolation without regard for other pressing issues like a decline in biodiversity, the contamination of freshwater sources, and the pollution of agricultural soils. targets on biodiversity, sustainable development, and climate mitigation; its also more cost-effective.
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How do you avoid getting distracted and stay focused on the mission?
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 7, 2020
With their engagement, we together can learn how to rebuild our economy and democracy with greater equality, justice and health. He consults on leading sustainable change through Alexander & Associates and climate change action through Plan C Advisors. We have no choice but lots of opportunity.
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The hidden death toll of flooding in Bangladesh sends a grim signal about climate and health
Grist
DECEMBER 11, 2023
The sheer scale of the destruction made 2022 an outlier year, but data from the past few decades signals that the historic monsoon was part of a larger trend: Climate change is making South Asia’s rainy season more intense and inconsistent. Death is the most severe health outcome,” said Schwarz.
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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 28, 2020
From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. If this year has shown us anything, it’s that the health of our planet and the health of humans are inextricably linked. . Media Source. Shutterstock. Media Authorship. Media Source.
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Building Back Better After Wildfire
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
What can corporations and others do to help grow back millions of acres of trees and prevent losing them to the ravages of climate change? How society and the business world goes about restoring our burned landscapes could make all the difference in whether new forests last.
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COVID-19: A 20/20-vision crystal ball into our climate future
GreenBiz
MARCH 15, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic can be claimed to be under control, it is likely to have made some economies retreat a decade and left millions of families in pain for the loss of loved ones, with many more millions enduring health and other consequences for some time to come. Unlike with COVID, no vaccine can kill climate change.
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Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
I am thinking especially of global poverty, hunger, health and education — SDGs 1 through 4 — where the latest figures from the World Bank and other centers of analysis paint a bleak picture of years lost and lives threatened. There are no silver linings in a global pandemic. But the analysis does not stop there. Consider finance.
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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?
GreenBiz
JULY 15, 2021
No wonder that the World Health Organization has declared mental health issues a pandemic alongside COVID-19. Boards of directors are needed more than ever to ask for and question the scenario analyses behind how climate change will affect their company’s assets and determine whether they are or will become stranded.
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Is it time to start engineering plants?
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 4, 2023
As the climate changes, crop cultivation becomes more challenging (image credit: Joanna Clarke, CC-BY 4.0 To meet the agricultural challenges caused by climate change and a growing population, we need to improve crop production. How can we sustainably feed our growing population as the climate changes?
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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.
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Farms vanishing around towns and cities, CPRE report reveals
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 3, 2025
Farmers are being asked to produce sustainable food, protect biodiversity, improve soil health and combat climate change all while facing unprecedented economic challenges and pressures from development.
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Corporate philanthropy becomes a renewed focus for leadership companies
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
During the session, Cecily Joseph, adviser for the Presidio Graduate School Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, highlighted the three major components of sustainability in business today — racial equity, climate change, and health and wellness. during COVID-19 and nearly one-third of U.S. Pull Quote. Corporate Strategy.
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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?
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