Stories About Climate Action
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Opening Up Thousands of New Forest Acres to Meet the Demands of Carbon Markets
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - The Family Forest Carbon Program is a path to reducing your carbon footprint, enhancing forest benefits and supporting rural livelihoods — all while meeting stakeholder expectations for corporate sustainability.
New Blockchain-Based System Aims to Supercharge $200B+ Climate Finance Markets
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Climate Futures’ 1PLANET Marketplace will launch during Earth Month as a blockchain-enabled, decentralized app (dapp) designed to help users do their part to mitigate the climate crisis — and keep it top of mind during COVID-19 hysteria.
Forest for the Trees: Is the New Normal a Great Mistake?
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - I suggest we take a deep breath, pause and assess what our reactions to the Coronavirus will do for the climate crisis and sustainability movement. We may be doing more harm than good in taking these drastic actions to cancel events and meetings aimed to solve much bigger, long-term issues.
100 US Companies, Investors Throw Weight Behind Transportation and Climate Initiative
COLLABORATION - A diverse group of investors, companies and organizations across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US are urging the region’s governors to adopt the TCI — what they’re calling a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity.’
Climate Crisis Considered Our Greatest Challenge — and We're Overwhelmed
MARKETING AND COMMS - A Vattenfall survey has found that the public see climate change as the main challenge of our age; while doomsday media coverage is compounding our anxiety about it, we're still looking to business and governments to save us.
Report: Existing Climate Solutions Sufficient to Reach ‘Drawdown’ by Mid-2040s
THE NEXT ECONOMY - ‘The Drawdown Review’ provides the most in-depth assessment to date of climate solutions and their potential to reduce greenhouse gases and build a climate-safe future.
Report: Digital Sector Can Lead Transformative Systems Change for Climate-Stable Future
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - A new report by Future Earth asserts that digital transformations unfolding today could help enable the systems transformations necessary for mitigating the climate crisis.
Trending: Fresh Approaches to Managing Fashion’s Footprint
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - While Burberry delivers another carbon-neutral runway show and works to “inset” its emissions, a new report quantifies the staggering amount of travel emissions generated during a season’s worth of major fashion weeks.
Jeff Bezos Launches $10B Earth Fund to ‘Preserve and Protect the Natural World’
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - The Amazon CEO, historically silent on the climate change issue and his company’s role within it, announces his personal vested interest — but critics and Amazon employees want more.
Regenerative Sourcing Helping Companies Meet Sustainability Goals
SUPPLY CHAIN - Regenerative agriculture can be a powerful tool for helping companies to reach climate and sustainability goals that can be promoted through responsible sourcing strategies.
Microsoft Will Remove Its 45 Years' Worth of Carbon Emissions by 2030
WALKING THE TALK - The tech giant has committed to carbon-negativity within a decade, and erasing its entire carbon footprint — everything it has emitted since its founding in 1975 — by 2050.
5 Tips for Leaders Who Want to Create a Strong Sustainability Culture
LEADERSHIP - In order to integrate sustainability into the core of a business, it has to be a part of the company’s culture. For this to happen, a top leader must be willing and ready to go first and evolve, according to leadership advisor Sandja Brügmann.
Climate Action Through Biomimicry: Innovation for the SDGs
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The tagline for this year’s Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, “Design° for People + Planet,” asks participants to look at what degree of change they will make for a particular SDG, using nature as their mentor.
Attention, Businesses: Don’t Let Your Trade Associations Undermine You on Climate Action
WALKING THE TALK - We know that companies have many issues to juggle and that representation on one issue can outweigh misrepresentation on another. However, on climate, we don’t have time to waste.
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THE NEXT ECONOMY - In the case of the climate crisis, we’re not facing one tipping point, but two. The hard part: These two tipping points would tilt us in opposite directions! But our current situation doesn’t mean it’s game over — it means it’s game on.
COP25: Business Persists While Governments Fail
LEADERSHIP - While the countries represented at COP25 failed to make significant strides in the fight against climate change, the business community continued to show leadership.
Better Resource Management Is the Key to Achieving All SDGs
WASTE NOT - Whether the eradication of poverty, or the support of climate positivity, all of the SDGs are about creating a balance of resource flows. Responsible production and consumption are essential to this — and achievable through connection, community and a bit of creativity.
Net Zero Emissions: Why We Can’t Tackle the Climate Crisis Without Addressing Global Inequality
CLEANTECH - As we enter 2020, we face a trilemma of global warming, growing inequality and rising nationalism — so, a well-designed net-zero strategy must tackle the climate crisis and promote economic opportunities for the less privileged at the same time.
CDP: Supply Chains Hold Key to 1GT of Emissions Savings
SUPPLY CHAIN - New report finds that over a billion metric tons (equal to emissions of Brazil and Mexico combined) of emissions would be saved if suppliers to just 125 multinationals increased their renewable electricity by 20%.
285 Companies’ Science-Based Targets Signal Significant Progress Toward Paris Agreement Goals
COLLABORATION - New report reveals that by meeting their science-based targets, these companies — with more GHGs than France and Spain, combined — will eliminate 265 million metric tons of emissions from their operations, equivalent to closing 68 coal-fired power plants.