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Can Scope3’s adtech execs tame the carbon emissions they once helped create?
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Adtech veteran Anne Coghlan explains how her latest gig Scope3 will help decarbonize the opaque industry she and co-founder Brian O’Kelley helped build.
How Bottrop halved CO2 emissions
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In just ten years, Bottrop has halved its CO2 emissions. The city has long been regarded as a model for other industrial locations. How was it possible to transform a city once dominated by mining in such a short time?
A Different Kind of Pipeline Project Scrambles Midwest Politics
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Plans that would bury carbon underground rather than release it in the air have stoked debate over climate and property rights, creating unlikely alliances and stirring memories of fierce battles over oil.
A ‘climate solution’ that spies worry could trigger war
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Solar geoengineering holds promise for reducing global temperatures. Absent international agreements, it could also spark conflict.
This firm is working to control the climate. Should the world let it?
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A balloon purchased on Amazon, a rogue experiment, and the ethics of dimming the sun
Hit the Snooze Button if You Want to Save the Planet
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Seriously—science shows that fewer hours spent working and more hours spent resting could be one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
Companies do too little for the climate
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Leading global companies that present themselves as climate pioneers are doing too little to protect the climate. And they are hiding how little. That is the conclusion of a study by climate experts published today.
A Core Question at COP27: Who Will Pay for Climate Change?
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Federal Government’s $20 Billion Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming
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The techniques are a cornerstone of the Agriculture Department’s approach to addressing a warming planet, but it is unclear whether more widespread deployment of such methods can truly reverse the effects of climate change.
FH;P Climate show
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The Climate Show presented the results of the Climate Semester - Utopias for the Present in the form of a digital exhibition and as an online event on 17.07.2020. Together at the FH Potsdam, in the summer semester 2020, the climate semester, the challenges of the climate crisis were put into perspective and transdisciplinary approaches and viable options for action for the here and now were developed.
She Is Africa’s First Heat Officer. Can She Make Her City Livable?
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Eugenia Kargbo remembers when Sierra Leone’s capital was greener and cooler, and is now trying to help the city combat rising temperatures.
Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows
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What I Saw as the Country’s First National Climate Adviser
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Can investors change an oil company from within?
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Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability draws on a deep understanding of Earth, climate, and society to create solutions at a global scale, in collaboration with partners worldwide. Together, we strive to create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity.
Project Drawdown | The World’s Leading Resource for Climate Solutions
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Our mission is to help the world reach “drawdown”—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
In Pivotal Climate Case, UN Panel Says Australia Violated Islanders’ Human Rights
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Committee asks the Canberra government to compensate Torres Strait Islanders for harm from rising seas and to take steps to protect them.
Denmark becomes first country to pledge ‘loss and damage’ finance
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Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says.
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A new report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
BürgerBegehren Klimaschutz
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The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard
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The energy expert Jesse Jenkins walks me through the path to our climate goals.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
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No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
239 Agencies Landed on Clean Creatives' Second 'F-List' for Working With Fossil Fuel Clients
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The report, released in partnership with Comms Declare, charts 15 years of activists' efforts urging the industry to drop major polluters
How Does Carbon Capture work?
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The idea of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to turn back the clock on climate change is an appealing one. Can these technologies deliver on their promise?
We Stay on the Ground
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Going flight-free is not only one of the most effective ways to reduce your own emissions, it’s an important statement that shows people around you that you take the climate crisis seriously and are ready to do what it takes. This in turn will make more people realise the seriousness of the situation, which is essential if we are to achieve the necessary political change. We are strongly influenced by each other’s behaviour – which means that change can happen quickly.
Can a Start-Up Help the Film and TV Industry Reduce Their Carbon Footprint?
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‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
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A growing chorus of young people is focusing on climate solutions. “‘It’s too late’ means ‘I don’t have to do anything, and the responsibility is off me.’”
Klimareporter
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klimareporter° is the first independent online magazine on climate change and the energy transition in the German-speaking world. We publish daily reports, analyses, interviews and debate contributions on the causes and consequences of the climate crisis and classify what is happening. Our magazine was founded in 2018 and succeeds the portal klimaretter.info, whose articles continue to be available in the archive.
Greta Is Right: Study Shows Individual Lifestyle Change Boosts Systemic Climate Action
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AI’s challenges in 2023: ChatGPT 4, combatting climate change and less bias
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Luisa Neubauer | Rede auf dem Parteitag in Bonn
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Luisa Neubauer, co-founder of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany, speaks at the 48th Federal Delegates Conference of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN.
A Huge City Polluter? Buildings. Here’s a Surprising Fix.
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Carbon capture might not work for all buildings. But some are giving it a try.
Two Climate Activists, 40 Years Apart in Age, on the Movement’s Future
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Bill McKibben published his first book over 20 years before Xiye Bastida was born. But as climate leaders, they agree that “for an activist to have hope is the most important thing.”
How consumers are embracing sustainability
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Adoption of sustainable lifestyles is on the rise, but consumers need more help
Purpose Disruptors
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Our mission is to catalyse the advertising industry’s climate transition to align with the IPCC’s 1.5 degree global warming target. We’re mobilising a network of advertising insiders to transform our industry together.
BP, in a Reversal, Says It Will Produce More Oil and Gas
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The company said global concerns about energy security had prompted the change, as it reported record profits for 2022.
Amount of finance committed to achieving 1.5°C now at scale needed to deliver the transition
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Capital committed to net zero now at over $130 trillion, up from $5 trillion when the UK and Italy assumed COP26 Presidency
Don’t Do Just One Thing
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Camera Offset Project
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Going camera-off reduces the carbon footprint of a video call by 96%.
The Great Green Investment Investigation
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European investors are pouring trillions into promises of green growth. Where does that money end up?
Entrepreneurs for Future
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We are entrepreneurs who are already advancing climate protection today and are committed to ensuring that the business community advances faster climate protection with innovative products, technologies, services and business models. Our initiative represents more than 5,000 companies, 300,000 jobs and more than EUR 42 billion in annual sales. By signing the statement, we are showing: Business wants more climate protection!
How Belize Cut Its Debt by Fighting Global Warming
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Developing nations are reducing their debt by pledging to protect their resources in financial deals that could give them a bigger role in the fight against climate change.
The World Is Falling Short of Its Climate Goals. Four Big Emitters Show Why.
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Clean Creatives
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We’re a movement of advertisers, PR professionals, and their clients cutting ties with fossil fuels.
‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn
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Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to combat climate change.
Climate action for agencies 101: the case for change
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In this series, we'll talk to marketing leaders about how they've embedded climate action into their agencies. Today, we talk to Sam Zindel, managing director at Propellernet and founder of Low Carbon Leaders, about how to get the ball rolling and making the case for change.
Why the New York Area Is Seeing an Explosive Growth in Electric Cars
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Ownership rates of electric cars have more than doubled in New York City and the surrounding area, propelled by more varied models, more charging stations and lower prices.
Fossil Free Berlin
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We stand up for climate justice and divestment
Together for future
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Together for Future is a young, non-profit association based in Berlin. We work for a livable, just and future-proof world with a focus on climate protection. Through mobilization, fact-based education and networking, we work to ensure that the Paris Climate Agreement, which is binding under international law, is upheld. We, that is students and trainees, employees and entrepreneurs, women and men, singles, parents, aunts and uncles, no matter - we have a common goal: Climate protection now! Here and worldwide.
Seaweed Is Having Its Moment in the Sun
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It’s being reimagined as a plastic substitute, even as cattle feed. But can seaweed thrive in a warming world?
Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.
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The United States’ turning point on climate change
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The economic opportunity of climate action in the US
The Sustainability Impact Pyramid
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A mapping of the leading sustainability startups, grouped by their estimated climate impact for a net-zero emissions future in the travel industry.
Hologram NFTs at Art Basel Miami Are Trying to Save the Oceans
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Can NFTs be a vehicle for environmental action?
Calls For Global Shipping To Ditch Fossil Fuels And Meet Climate Goals
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Pork without a pig? A New Jersey factory says it has found a way.
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Cultivated-meat companies are betting that they can grow meat in a lab to scale. Other experts aren’t so sure.
Cooperation on Climate Is Emerging in the Middle East
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After the Abraham Accords, partnerships between companies in Israel and Arab countries have led to the kinds of initiatives that will be on the Davos agenda.
The Power Atlas: Climate
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Countries around the world will have to engage in a wholesale transformation of their economies and infrastructure if they are to meet their environmental targets. Climate is rapidly becoming inextricable from the more conventional forms of political and material power.
Is your company really reducing CO2? The crucial difference between offsetting and insetting.
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Flight Free USA
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The solution to the climate crisis is straightforward: to significantly reduce our emissions. Flying in an airplane is the most polluting activity we commonly do. Pledge to not fly, as a signal to our communities, leaders, and businesses that climate solutions are needed now. Together, we can reduce emissions, shift the fossil fuel norm, and lay the foundation for strong climate policy. Take action and demand system change!
Why adland must work with ‘whole economy’ to fight climate change – including fossil fuels
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As Cop27 drew to a close, we sat down with Ad Net Zero chair Seb Munden to discuss the ad industry’s progress in addressing climate change.
Analysis: What do China’s gigantic wind and solar bases mean for its climate goals?
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Reforestation alone not a solution
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Reforestation makes sense regionally, but it cannot begin to replace conventional climate protection. This is the conclusion of an Israeli research team.
Byway
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We’ve built adventures that don’t rely on flights, and we stand by the principle that travelling through the world is better than flying over. Rail travel accounts for just 14g of CO2 per passenger mile, dwarfed by the 285g generated by air travel (Energy Saving Trust, 2018). You could get the train from London to Edinburgh five times and your carbon footprint would still be lower than if you flew there.
Bringing community solar to low-income customers is a lot harder than you might think
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An Illinois entrepreneur says building trust is critical in communities where many people are deeply skeptical of outsiders offering to make a deal.
EIT Climate-KIC
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EIT Climate-KIC is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society.
Study: IPCC asks emerging countries to drop coal faster than rich nations did
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A new study has found that most energy transition models ask nations like China, India and South Africa to cut coal use twice as fast as developed countries ever did.
Too many business climate plans treat symptoms, not cause, says Dentsu sustainability boss
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There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study
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LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
CO2 emissions to rise further in 2022
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The Global Carbon Project expects greenhouse gas emissions to rise significantly in 2022. This also reduces the remaining CO2 budget to meet the 1.5-degree target. But there are also positive developments.
Inside Climate News
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Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
How China, the world’s top polluter, avoids paying for climate damage
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United Nations still considers China, now the world’s second-largest economy and biggest annual polluter, a developing country
How Putin and Friends Stalled Climate Progress
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A handful of powerful world leaders rallied around Russia and undercut global cooperation.
Global Footprint Network
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Advancing the Science of Sustainability
How to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower
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Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. In Amsterdam, they are trying to create a blueprint to do something about it.
Take the Jump
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The JUMP is based on recent independent research The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5oC World, and indeed some of its authors (as private individuals) are amongst those who started the JUMP. Its aim is to determine where and how global emissions must reduce to ensure global warming is kept to international agreed safe levels of 1.5oC.
My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability
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Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself.
Hundreds of scientists call on PR and advertising firms to drop fossil fuel clients
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More than 450 scientists have called on the PR and advertising sectors to stop the spread of disinformation in relation to the climate crisis, with a specific call for organisations to stop enabling fossil fuel giants to mislead the public on green claims.
The Climate Reality Project
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Get the tools, training, and network to fight climate change and together build the world we want.
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
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Accelerating the transition to a net-zero global economy
Climate Majority Project
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Harnessing shareholder power to drive climate responsibility
South Africa approves $8.5bn energy transition investment plan
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Insiders say less than 3% of the money rich countries promised is earmarked as grants, raising concerns about fairness and South Africa’s debt burden
Are ‘Heat Pumps’ the Answer to Heat Waves? Some Cities Think So.
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Electric heat pumps are a way to cool and heat homes at a much lower carbon cost than traditional air-conditioners and furnaces.
Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the Planet
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The climate activist discusses the ‘new era’ the climate movement is entering — and the urgent need to take action.
STAY GROUNDED
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STAY GROUNDED is a people-powered, science-based, and action-oriented network for more than 200+ member initiatives around the world. The network fosters mutual support and exchange of experiences, and campaigns for a reduction of aviation and its negative impacts, as well as against problematic climate strategies like offsetting emissions and biofuels. Join our efforts for a just mobility system that works for all, now and in the future.
Tripping for the Planet: Psychedelics and Climate Activism
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With more states legalizing psychedelics, activists are interested in exploring their power. The Frontline examines whether that’s a good idea.
The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change
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Climate change has led to roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming so far, making the earth hotter now than it has ever been in the long history of civilization.
Deforestation Declining, but Too Slow to Meet Climate Goals
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Green Tech Alliance
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The Greentech Alliance brings together green technology businesses, that fight climate change with their products and services in the most responsible and respectful to our planet manner, to support them with advice about funding, impact, visibility and strategy with the help of top VCs, journalists, advisors and entrepreneurs.
The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars
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An industry group is spending millions of dollars to push back against efforts to move heating away from oil and gas.
The Compost by My Couch: How (and Why) I Started an Odorless Bin at Home
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New York City has suspended its composting program because of the coronavirus. Here’s an alternative that’s easy, clean and good for the climate.
1-Year Later: China’s Ban on Overseas Coal Power Projects and Its Global Climate Impacts
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NFT, AI and Co: What progress costs us
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What is the size of the carbon footprint of AI, blockchains and smart home applications?
edie – empowering sustainable business
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edie is the industry-leading, purpose-driven business media brand which empowers sustainability, energy and environmental professionals of all levels to make business more sustainable through award-winning* content and events.
Global Nature Fund
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Klimaneustart Berlin
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Stockholm Environment Institute
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We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.
The new marketing mission: making sustainability your competitive advantage
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As part of our Predictions Deep Dive, we sit down with Rob Mitchell, CEO, FT Longitude to discuss the evolving role of the marketer in leading the sustainability agenda.
MAKING FINANCE WORK FOR THE CLIMATE
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A financial sector that supports the transition to sustainable societies that preserve ecosystems and satisfy people’s basic needs.
Here’s Where the U.S. Is Testing a New Response to Rising Seas
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Native American tribes are competing for the first federal grants designed to help move communities away from high water and other dangers posed by climate change.
Pädagogen for future
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We are educators, teachers, pedagogues and volunteers in the field of education who care about a good future for future generations and declare our support for the demands of the "Fridays For Future" movement.
For a livable climate: Net-zero commitments must be backed by credible action
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The internet consumes extraordinary amounts of energy. Here’s how we can make it more sustainable
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Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit
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The German Climate Change and Health Alliance (KLUG) is a network of individuals, organizations and associations from across the health sector. Our goal is to make clear what far-reaching consequences the climate crisis has on health.
For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest
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Living Carbon, a biotechnology company, hopes its seedlings can help manage climate change. But wider use of its trees may be elusive.
BP dials back climate pledge amid soaring oil profits
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The energy giant is aiming for a 20 to 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions, backing off of an earlier goal of 35 to 40 percent
Zero Hour
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The mission of Zero Hour is to center the voices of diverse youth in the conversation around climate and environmental justice. Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points, training, and resources for new young activists and organizers (and adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action around climate change. Together, we are a movement of unstoppable youth organizing to protect our rights and access to the natural resources and a clean, safe, and healthy environment that will ensure a livable future where we not just survive, but flourish.
Creatives for Climate
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Creatives for Climate is a global intelligence network of thousands of storytellers and sustainability experts radically re-skilling to tackle greenwashing in their work and use their creativity to drive change.
DEUTSCHLAND KLIMANEUTRAL BIS 2035
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We are working for a world, a world in which future generations can live a good life. That means limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. To achieve this, we are making Germany climate-neutral by 2035.
We Analyzed the Emissions 4 Families Generated in a Week. Here's What We Learned About Living Greener
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The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says.
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Cheap and available technologies can help us meet climate goals this decade: here’s how, according to the new UN climate report.
Decarbonizing the world’s industries: A net-zero guide for nine key sectors
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The sectors that produce the majority of global greenhouse-gas emissions face a steep challenge to decarbonize, but our research shows that solutions are within reach. In many cases, a transformation is well underway. This collection draws together articles and reports that lay out a pathway to net zero for nine emissions-intensive industries.
This Guide Can Help You Save Money and Fight Climate Change
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The new climate and tax law can bring big savings for anyone looking to buy an electric car or make their home more energy efficient.
Das Bündnis für klimapositives Verhalten e.V.
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We want to bring decision-makers in marketing and advertising onto the climate-positive path. We want to achieve that we use our power to actively drive climate-positive behavioral alternatives externally as well as internally in our industries. On this way we support as the alliance for climate positive behavior with the M4F Award, the M4F Insights & the M4F Climate Workshop.
Climate hour
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We reclaim our Future. We turn systemic climate action into bite-sized chunks. Our technology makes civic engagement accessible, and rewarding. We measure impact in real-time.
Climate Advocacy Lab
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NeoCarbon | Reversing climate change doing Direct Air Capture with cooling towers
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NeoCarbon uses existing infrastructure in the form of cooling towers to perform DAC at up to 10x lower costs and time, which makes DAC mass-market ready.
Artists Back 'Green' NFT Sale Citing Concerns Over Crypto's Environmental Impact
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The collaborative effort involving RNDR, Nifty Gateway and Beeple includes carbon offsets and a donation to the Open Earth Foundation.
Edmonton couple spend 20 years transforming '60s bungalow into comfortable net-zero home
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Extensive retrofits and upgrades set couple back $70,000 after subsidies
The Roads to Decoupling: 21 Countries Are Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing GDP
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U.S. emissions rose slightly in 2022. They need to be falling rapidly.
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U.S. emissions saw a modest increase in 2022, even as renewables surpassed coal, report says
A Powerful Climate Leader From a Small Island Nation
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Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has been drawing attention to the environmental and financial threats faced by small and vulnerable countries like hers.
How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade
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This interactive article shows how the UK has transformed its electricity supply in a decade – and how things are expected to continue changing. To tell this story of unprecedented change, Carbon Brief has mapped every power plant in the UK, in each year since 2008, as well as taken a look into the future. From the smallest solar rooftop to the largest coal-fired giant, this UK map is the most comprehensive ever published, containing nearly 3,000 larger sites and more than 800,000 smaller ones.
Ahead of Cop27, marketers reveal the real difficulties in going green
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Ahead of Cop27, marketers are wrestling with their role in the climate crisis. Some are more prepared than others. The Drum explores the key considerations.
These foods are climate-friendly and, just as important, delicious
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Lists of climate-friendly foods are everywhere. And, because climate isn’t the only consideration, there are efforts to take other kinds of environmental impact (remember those?) into account. My Washington Post colleagues created a very groovy food graphic that considers greenhouse gas emissions, water use, nutrient runoff and habitat disruption. But you know what’s missing from those lists? Deliciousness.
Recyclable? Try Refillable. The Quest For a Greener Cleaner
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As more consumers try to cut down on plastic waste, both start-ups and big brands like Clorox are hoping to usher in a new age of refillable cleaners.
The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet
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With airplanes producing a large amount of climate-warming emissions, a growing number of travelers are signing pledges to keep their journeys on the ground.
Handabdruck-Test
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Find your lever for change!
Why the midterms have made climate activists hopeful for the future
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Even with Republicans controlling the House, Democrats retained enough control at the federal level to defend the Inflation Reduction Act while making inroads in crucial local elections.
The global energy crisis is driving a surge in heat pumps, bringing energy security and climate benefits
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Sales set to hit new records, helping save energy and emissions, but policy action is needed to unblock bottlenecks such as upfront costs and training workers
the grass sucker
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SubjectToClimate
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We envision a world where everyone feels empowered to take action in solving climate change. To create this future, climate action begins in the classroom.
Carbon Co-op
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Carbon Co-op is an energy services and advocacy co-operative that helps people and communities to make the radical reductions in home carbon emissions necessary to avoid runaway climate change.
What the impact of "green inflation" will be
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The high inflation rate is also linked to climate protection. Investments in the energy turnaround and the rising CO2 tax are helping to drive up prices. Experts warn of "green inflation".
The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%
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Wealth, energy use, and the consumption of goods and services are unevenly distributed across the world. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are no exception. Emissions vary across countries and across generations, but even more so across income groups.
After Decades of Resistance, Rich Countries Offer Direct Climate Aid
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Several European leaders at COP27 announced funds to help poor nations recover from loss and damage caused by climate change. The United States was silent.
Carbon Tracker Initiative
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Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
How Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives
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The business world has been pulled into partisan politics, with Republicans bringing their battle against socially conscious investing to Congress.
Nations Agree to Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050
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The agreement, years in the making, is a milestone in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes worldwide.
How to Start Composting
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“How do I compost?” might sound like a simple question, but the answers can branch out and multiply like the running roots of a plant. To help break it all down for those just starting out, we spoke with five experts about how to start composting—no matter where you live.
Airbus boss warns of delay in decarbonising airline industry
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Guillaume Faury expresses concern at pace of investment in facilities producing alternatives to fossil fuels
Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change?
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A plan led by Barbados could remake the way the world of finance deals with the climate crisis.
Big Oil’s green PR disproportionate to its investment, finds research
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Climate Matters Blog
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Analysis and Opinion on the Climate and Sustainability Debate, edited @Chair of Climate Communication, University of Hamburg
Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition
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The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation
Adland’s sustainability officers say pushing for change is an ‘exhausting rollercoaster’
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From disengaged stakeholders to patronizing board members, the ad industry execs in charge of controlling their companies’ environmental impact can often have their work cut out for them. We find out how it’s not always easy being green.
Climate Change form A to Z
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The stories we tell ourselves about the future.
Scaling green businesses: Next moves for leaders
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New challenges—and opportunities—have emerged for green business builders. A set of actions could help companies scale during these uncertain times.
Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?
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The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?
UN Carbon Offset Platform
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This platform features UNFCCC certified projects that reduce, avoid or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere.
How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action
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‘We must go further, faster’: 5 key takeaways from the Ad Net Zero Global Summit
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One year on from its inaugural gathering at Cop26 in Glasgow, the Ad Net Zero Global Summit kicked off in London yesterday (November 9) to help advertisers and marketers address the climate crisis. Here’s what we learned.
Facing Budget Shortfalls, These Schools Are Turning to the Sun
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Public schools are increasingly using savings from solar energy to upgrade facilities, help their communities, and give teachers raises — often with no cost to taxpayers.
Omas for future
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A (super) life on our beautiful earth is only possible if we live in harmony with it.
COP26 made net zero a core principle for business. Here’s how leaders can act
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Momentum has shifted: net-zero commitments are the norm. But demand for solutions and systems to meet them outstrips the supply. To respond, businesses should focus on five fundamentals.
To Ease the Climate Crisis, First Figure Out What Works
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The Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo said poorer nations are at ‘dramatic’ risk if policies, attitudes and support from rich countries do not improve.
Why an iPhone charging feature is facing surprising blowback
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Apple’s clean energy charging feature, which is designed to reduce your carbon footprint, faces surprising blowback
Solar Power Europe
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SolarPower Europe is the award-winning link between policymakers and the solar PV value chain with the mission of ensuring solar becomes Europe’s leading energy source by 2030.
20 Nations at High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments
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The countries want their collective $685 billion in debts forgiven so the money can be invested in climate projects.
Which food is better for the planet? Salmon or cod?
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Knowing what to eat to minimize impact on the planet can feel like an impossible task: Eat locally? Skip meat? Opt for organic, free range, humanely raised?
Air Company
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We are a carbon utilization company working with industries to create planetary change. Our patented and proprietary AIRMADE™ Technology takes Earth's excess CO2 and converts it into carbon-negative alcohols and fuels.
Five Climate Books to Read for COP27
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Carnegie climate experts share their recommended reads on the global warming crisis.