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Category Archives: Climate Change
Cancún Talks Bridge Trust Deficit
The TakeAway: COP16 climate talks accomplished more than expected, while restoring trust in the international process that can lead to stronger future measures. Despite media reports citing lowered expectations – and fear that Copenhagen’s dysfunctions would spill over to this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Alden Meyer, Cancún, Cancún Accords, Christiana Figueres, Clean Development Mechanism, COP 16 Climate Summit, COP17, Copenhagen Accords, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Durban, Green Climate Fund, human rights, Kyoto Protocol, Patricia Espinosa, REDD+, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), South Africa, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development, sustainable forestry, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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IT Leads ET, But Needs Public Policy and $$$
The TakeAway: Information technology leader Google advances energy technology development, but clean energy progress relies on smart policy and capital flows, too. “Google it.” Over the past decade, the term has gone viral, as the name of the information technology … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Atlantic Wind Connection, Center for Sustainable enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC), clean energy technology, COP 16 Climate Summit, Copenhagen Summit, Dan Reicher, EEOS, General Electric, Google, Google Earth Engine, Google PowerMeter, home energy management, ReChargeIT, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, UMass Boston
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The Urgency of Water Stewardship
The TakeAway: The Carbon Disclosure Project’s new Water Disclosure program establishes water risk management as an investor concern while helping companies gauge their “water footprint”. Water is to the world what blood is to our bodies: the vetturale di natura, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Alliance for Water Stewardship, BRIC countries, Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP Water Disclosure, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), FTSE Global 500, Marcus Norton, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), water footprint, water risk, water stewardship
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The Business Impact on Human Rights
The TakeAway: Social materiality gains traction as the role of business in advancing human rights attracts wider support. After years of neglect, companies now increasingly consider their impacts on human rights as material issues, with clear impacts on the bottom … Continue reading
Worker Co-op Model Migrates from Spain to Cleveland
The TakeAway: “The Cleveland Model” borrows from the highly successful Mondragón system of worker-owned cooperatives, adding sustainability practices. On Monday we asked for your thoughts about what the sustainability movement in the US could do to address chronic unemployment and … Continue reading
Who Pays the True Cost of Environmental Damage?
The TakeAway: Institutional investors need to assert their ownership power to offset environmental costs and push for sustainable companies and public policy. Despite the worldwide recession, the economic crisis isn’t the only cause of financial losses affecting innocent bystanders. There’s … Continue reading
A New Actor Steps On To The Stage
By Bob Massie, Publisher, The Murninghan Post The TakeAway: A Brazilian Initiative – The Global Sustainability Forum – Signals New Leadership from an Emerging Power Last week in Rio de Janeiro, one of the leaders of international civil society, Oded … Continue reading
The Long Drive To Increase Fuel Efficiency and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The TakeAway: The Obama Administration proposes to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards—perhaps to 62 miles per gallon by 2025. Despite Washington’s political gridlock, with cap and trade and climate change legislation on indefinite holds, late last week the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy
Tagged cap and trade, Clean Air Act, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), Dan Becker, Department of Transportation (DOT), electric vehicles, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, hybrid electric vehicles, OPEC, Safe Climate Campaign
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