GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The circular economy is a solution for our future health and wellness and recycling has a vital role to play. Strong, coordinated action is needed in areas including package design and labeling, capital investments, scaled adoption of best management practices, policy interventions, and consumer engagement.

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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. Policy & Politics. If we commit to doing so, the solutions will come, she said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato " by Rebecca Earle. Honey And Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper " by Andrew Coté.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. Policy & Politics. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system. Sub-systemic shocks. Finance & Investing. Risk & Resilience. Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies. As the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

While there is no question that addressing public health consequences is the priority, the nature of the equally crucial economic recovery effort raises some interrogations. Policy & Politics. The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S., Circular Economy. Risk & Resilience. Supply Chain.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yet in response to a Freedom of Information request to see any assessments, evidence or policy papers detailing progress towards the 30×30 target, Defra could provide nothing. It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

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.”. “Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. How wrong was I?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

The findings in Top risks forecast: Bottom lines for business in 2024 and beyond attempt to shine a light on the multifaceted, complex challenges facing companies looking to grow internationally at a time of increasing divergence on regulation, conflict, technological advancement and political uncertainty.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. It has triggered a warning from the head of the NHS in England that “the climate emergency is in fact also a health emergency”, while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said this is a “public health crisis”. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Angela Eagle, border security minister, says prime minister has to answer why he has accepted £76,000 worth of gifts since 2019 election The number of migrants who have crossed the English Channel since Labour won the general election has passed 10,000, according to provisional figures from the Home Office.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since its beginning in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has become a global movement to prevent road fatalities and serious injuries by undertaking a Safe System approach to road safety. But despite the documented successes of the approach in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

The shift to EVs will save Canadian households money, said Thomas Green, senior climate policy adviser with the David Suzuki Foundation. These arguments dont sit well with Dr. Arguments against EV mandates ignore the substantial harms that fossil-fuel-driven vehicles inflict upon the health of people across Canada, said Vipond.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

Last year, over 350 events took place throughout New York City as part of the official program, which brought together political announcements, business leadership events, and grassroots activity. It brings together national, state and regional government leaders, businesses and the broader climate sector to accelerate climate action.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Worries about the health of the economy and human health far outweigh concerns about the environment right now. Remember that so much of the outrage about plastics in the ocean is the fact that plastics are in our food stream, so it’s a human health issue. And we’re really worried about getting our basic needs met.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 12, 2021

The continued progression of COVID-19 has required many businesses to postpone their back-to-the-office dates to protect their workers and assuage their health concerns. From Twitter to Amazon, major urban businesses have rolled out a variety of different commuting policies as they contemplate going "back to the office." Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It also urges the leaders at COP26 to agree on a new UN-backed treaty that would exclude fossil fuel companies’ involvement in climate policy making, following the example of the World Health Organisation-backed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Corporate Capture’.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. But political action starts with public demand (at least in theory), so it’s an encouraging sign. Economists, for example. The corporate view.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 20, 2024

We have inherited an incoherent energy policy that has left homes up and down the country vulnerable to rocketing energy bills. The Labour government will invest “unprecedented levels of funding” in cycling and walking as a critical part of plans to improve health and inequality, the new secretary for transport has said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

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.”. “Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

And today, UK and US researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), have sought to deliver some sobering, if not wholly surprising, answers to these critical questions. per cent loss in GDP under current policies. per cent of GDP.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 21, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell talks with Patrick Hanlon, Director of Environmental Programs for the Minneapolis Health Department. They discuss Green Cost Share: a program that promotes public health by matching investments in solar and energy efficiency projects.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Policy & Politics.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state. “These new policies and oversight will ensure this will not happen again.” “We have taken robust actions to address these [issues]," Crane said.

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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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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People around the world are increasingly aware of and impacted by climate change, which is connected unsurprisingly with a parallel uptick in associated mental health stress. But providing supportive services requires a better understanding of climate change’s effects on the mental health of all people.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global body calls on governments to establish 'credible and irreversible' climate policies that drive 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2030. Stop-and-go policies and further procrastinating on the grounds that "now is not the time" will only exacerbate the toll," the report states.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The second instalment of the government-commissioned National Food Strategy has warned the UK must significantly reduce its consumption of meat if it wants to curb the impacts the food system is having on human and planetary health. The government needs a trade policy that supports its environmental ambitions," the report notes.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our View from the Frontlines: What are the Gaps Between Policy and Practice During this Pandemic? Join us for two conversations (February 25 and March 4) about how the pandemic has exacerbated the inequities of community health and wellbeing for frontline communities statewide. PART 1 - Thursday, February 25 - 3pm-4:30pm.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Who's news. McDonald’s has formed a Global Impact Team to be overseen by EVP and Global Impact Officer Katie Beirne Fallon , who is departing Hilton Worldwide as EVP and head of corporate affairs.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In its official climate policy position , the U.S. Yet the Chamber is currently working to eliminate one of the most effective climate and public health protections on the books in the United States. The Chamber’s position is bad for business, our health, and the planet. Climate leadership requires policy leadership.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines.

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