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Wildfires and Climate Change:
Al Jazeera
The countries most affected are Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal, with temperatures nearing or topping 40C (104F).
NC State College of Natural Resources - NC State University
Climate change is resulting in warmer-than-average surface temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. These trends are expected to increase the ...
Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Burn Longer and Wider - Earthjustice
Earthjustice
Human activity is causing rapid changes to our global climate that are contributing to extreme weather conditions. When fossil fuels are burned for ...
Sector Based Decarbonization:
RMI
Unlike other sectors, its emissions are often process-based, high-temperature, and deeply embedded in legacy infrastructure. States play a pivotal ...
Technologies and gaps in deep decarbonization of hard-to-abate industrial sectors - Nature
Nature
Energy efficiency improvements, often based on mature technologies, are expected to have a major role in industrial decarbonization and potentially ...
Fastmarkets
In contrast, electric arc furnace (EAF)-based producers – which predominantly consume ferrous scrap and direct-reduced iron (DRI) – have received ...
Methane Emissions:
The case for UK methane action: A fast, cost-effective climate win - Clean Air Task Force
Clean Air Task Force
By incentivising its trading partners to adopt best practices and methane-reducing technologies, the UK can help reduce emissions beyond its ...
A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit | New Scientist
New Scientist
Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane emissions.
Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas ...
ScienceDirect.com
Methane adjustments erode over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in US greenhouse gas emissions. Abstract. The Environmental Protection ...
Data Driven Decision Making:
Plain Concepts
To realize these advanced technology visions, data leaders must drive the organization to prioritize data and AI in decision-making. This involves ...
Data Literacy in AI Decision-Making: Empowering Organizations - Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra
Empower your organization with data literacy to drive a data-driven culture, enhance decision-making, and achieve measurable business outcomes.
How data analytics is transforming modern industries - Innovation News Network
Innovation News Network
Why businesses are embracing data-driven decisions. In a time of rapid technological progress, data-driven decision-making has become a cornerstone of ...
Global Reporting Initiative:
GreenBiz.com
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)), which develops and maintains standards that more than 14,000 companies worldwide use to disclose emissions ...
GRI Launches Climate and Energy Reporting Standards Aligned with Global Climate Goals
ESG News
GRI launched 2 new sustainability reporting standards, GRI 102 and GRI 103 —to drive corporate accountability and accelerate climate action.
GRI updates climate standards to better align with ISSB - Green Central Banking
Green Central Banking
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has revised its climate change and energy standards for companies to take into account their wider social ...
Community Health Risks From Climate Change:
Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News
But a growing body of research shows that hot nights are becoming more common with climate change—and not just during a heat wave. These increasingly ...
Heat and pollution are combining to threaten public health as U.S. temperatures rise - EHN
EHN.org
AGENTS OF CHANGE IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEADRIFT: COMMUNITIES ON THE ... Stay on top of the latest science and journalism about environmental health and ...
Q&A on Climate Change and Mental Health with Elizabeth Haase, M.D. - Psychiatry.org
American Psychiatric Association
What are some of the unique mental health effects and emotional and cultural responses in communities facing food shortages? Food has such an ...
Renewable Energy Investments:
Clean Air Task Force
In aggregate, Texas and California have seen the most clean energy related investments, totaling $62.3 billion and $34 billion, respectively, between ...
Clean energy stocks fall as Trump bill taxes components from China, phases out credits - CNBC
CNBC
... investments." The Senate legislation also slaps a tax on solar and wind projects that enter service after 2027 if they use components made in China.
Why invest in renewable energy, a comprehensive guide - Tata Power
Tata Power
Renewable energy investments are taking place across the globe, with more people turning to sustainability. But why? Investment in renewable energy is ...
CDP Sustainability:
CDP
... sustainability initiatives, meet compliance requirements, and advance ... CDP, tracking progress towards targets, third-party verification ...
How to Approach CDP Reporting, Sustainability Initiatives for Food & Beverage Companies
Food Processing
Nathalia Macedo, of NSF International, offers recommendations, tactics and actions processors can take when approaching CDP (formerly the Carbon ...
ABB among TIME's World's Most Sustainable Companies - Stock Titan
Stock Titan
ABB has received multiple sustainability accolades, including a place on CDP's 'A List' and an AAA rating from MSCI ESG. ABB (OTC:ABLZF) ha ...
California's Leadership in Climate Change:
California weighs Amazon oil imports after Indigenous leaders raise alarm - EHN.org
EHN.org
Meanwhile, places like California, which prides itself on environmental leadership ... climate changeenergyenvironmental healthenvironmental justice ...
Connecting Frontline Struggles and Fenceline Communities of California's Oil Addiction
Amazon Watch
“Our leaders and families have faced threats, persecution, and been killed for opposing oil extraction. We are looking for California to be a climate ...
The California budget hinges on these reforms to CEQA and homelessness funds - POLITICO Pro
POLITICO Pro
The California State Capitol dome. Lawmakers will take up sweeping changes to environmental protection rules as part of a bill that Gov. Gavin ...
Impact Investing:
TechCrunch
Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.
Department of Energy
The Office of Electricity announced $5 million each to 3 grid-scale energy storage projects that support critical facilities and infrastructure in ...
ARPA-E-winning thermal energy storage in sand wins commercial interest - SolarPACES
SolarPACES
Silica sand has a unique edge among sands for thermal energy storage. Unlike most industrial processes, refining it enables dual use.
Energy Storage
TechCrunch
Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.
DOE Selects $15M in Projects Advancing Energy Storage and Critical Infrastructure Resiliency
Department of Energy
The Office of Electricity announced $5 million each to 3 grid-scale energy storage projects that support critical facilities and infrastructure in ...
ARPA-E-winning thermal energy storage in sand wins commercial interest - SolarPACES
SolarPACES
Silica sand has a unique edge among sands for thermal energy storage. Unlike most industrial processes, refining it enables dual use.
Climate Change and Satellites:
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data - NPR
NPR
Permanent sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is shrinking rapidly because of climate change, and the exact amount of ice fluctuates dramatically over ...
Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'
The Guardian
Noaa said the changes would not impact the quality of forecasting. However, the Guardian spoke with several scientists inside and outside of the US ...
Japan launches climate change monitoring satellite on H2A rocket's last flight | AP News
AP News
Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket. This marks the rocket's 50th and final flight before being ...
Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:
ESG Today
Science-aligned intensity-based targets · 2030: 40% reduction in emissions per litre from 2020 baseline – ensuring Oatly maintains at least 60% lower ...
Expleo's science-based climate action targets approved by SBTi - ADS Advance
ADS Advance
Expleo's near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Kalmar's climate targets validated by Science Based Targets initiative
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) has approved Kalmar's near- and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets and verified ...
Climate Change Winners and Losers:
Financial Times
Trump tax bill new tweaks create green power winners and losers ... Climate change. Add to myFT. Renewable energy. Add to myFT. US politics & policy.
What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food, and more emissions
Grist Magazine
... changes in weather patterns associated with climate change. ... “There are absolutely regional winners and losers in this global aggregate,” he said.
National Geographic
... climate change. ... “Whenever we're thinking about the change in climate, we do have to recognize that there are going to be winners and losers from ...
Microgrids:
OPB
Microgrids are small, self-contained energy networks, usually powered by wind and solar technology, that produce, distribute and store power locally.
Behavior-aware energy management in microgrids using quantum-classical hybrid ...
Nature
The increasing intricacy of modern microgrids, driven by uncertain consumption patterns, decentralized renewables, and user behavioral dynamics, ...
How Electric School Buses, as Mobile Microgrids, Can Respond to Energy and Weather ...
Microgrid Knowledge
Electric school buses, as mobile microgrids, can travel to communities–especially those that experience the brunt of climate change–to serve as ...
Community Health Risk Assessment:
Heat health risk assessment and identification of priority control areas in residential ...
Frontiers
This pattern aligned with the finding that hazard-dominant risk residential communities were generally distributed close to the center and the ...
BMI is bad at measuring weight, study finds
WVTM 13 Birmingham
Frank Orlando, a clinical associate professor of community health and family medicine at University of Florida Health. “Think of the interventions ...
Using GenAI to Train Mental Health Professionals in Suicide Risk Assessment: Preliminary Findings
Psychiatrist.com
Background: Suicide risk assessment is a critical skill for mental health professionals (MHPs), yet traditional training in this area is often limited ...
Socially Responsible Investing:
Harvard Kennedy School
investors to own socially valuable assets affects social welfare. Relative to the most common social-investing strategies, we identify alternative ...
Sustainability is alive and thriving, with most companies citing value creation
Wealth Professional
For some, talk of ESG, climate change mitigation, or sustainable investing has become toxic, but for the global corporate world, the commitment ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:
ABC News - The Walt Disney Company
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis says one of the world's largest carbon capture utilization and storage projects, ...
4 Takeaways from California's Carbon Dioxide Removal Policies - World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute
Status Signed into law in 2022. Legislation Carbon Sequestration: Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization and Storage Program (SB 905 ), Details ...
EurekAlert!
As global decarbonization efforts intensify, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is poised to play a pivotal role in bridging the gap ...
Sustainability Investing:
Morgan Stanley
While high investment needs remain a challenge, two-thirds of companies say their sustainability strategies are meeting or exceeding expectations.
Sustainable investing: “taking the temperature” | AllianzGI
Allianz Global Investors
... investments can contribute to sustainability goals – and how and where. ... investment in sustainable and impact investing. Amid unprecedented ...
Permira
Responsible Investing. Our Responsible Investing Framework guides investment teams to identify sub-sectors or activities which may be excluded from ...
Geoengineering:
The Guardian
A conference in Cambridge this week will explore a raft of geoengineering ideas to cool the region down – and attempt to address the fears of ...
University of Michigan News
We argue that considering the human dimension of solar geoengineering is just as important.” Solar radiation modification—techniques designed to cool ...
What is solar geoengineering? - ThinkLandscape
ThinkLandscape - Global Landscapes Forum
Can solar geoengineering solve the climate crisis? The controversial technologies to cool the Earth by dimming the sun.
Green Bond Funds:
Green bonds offer hope, and risk, in Africa's climate fight - France 24
France 24
It only took two days for Nigeria to raise $59 million through green bonds -- part of a funding drive for climate and environmental projects in a ...
The quiet evolution of 'green' bonds in global portfolios | AXA IM UK
AXA Investment Managers
While there are still tracking error challenges when comparing green bond funds to conventional bond funds, for those investors able to look beyond ...
Seizing the Infrastructure Opportunity: Debt Restructuring and Green Bonds in a Post-U.S. Aid World
AInvest
The U.S. withdrawal from global development aid has left a $57.6 billion annual funding gap for critical infrastructure projects—from healthcare ...
Low Carbon Funds:
California's low-carbon fuel standard gets the green light to ratchet up stringency - POLITICO Pro
POLITICO Pro
Amendments to California's hot-button emissions trading program for transportation fuels will take effect early next week, state regulators ...
Greenbelt Capital Closes First Fund at $1B to Accelerate Energy Transition - ESG News
ESG News
“We aim to help drive a carbon competitive and sustainable future by backing strong commercial leaders who are shaping the next era of innovation and ...
EU eases state aid rules to boost green projects, cut carbon footprint | Reuters
Reuters
The new rules will make it easier for pension funds, insurers and other private investors to co-invest in green projects. However, industry ...
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