Environment

Xylem Affirms Its Strong Support for the Paris Climate Agreement

Following yesterday's announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Xylem, a leading global water technology company, issued a statement affirming its support for the agreement.

Environment

Statement from Keep America Beautiful Concerning Decision by United States to Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, believes that meaningful, lasting change is best achieved when NGOs and social service organizations, businesses, government, academia and individuals — reflecting the strength and diversity of our nation and the world — join together to take responsibility with collective action.

Today’s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Climate Agreement adds an even greater sense of urgency to our work to help create a country where every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live, work and play.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog - Front Two: Benign Emissions

Back in September 2003, the EPA decided that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were not “air pollutants,” meaning that the EPA didn’t have to regulate them under the Clean Air Act. A number of states concerned about climate change didn’t take kindly to this determination. Voila, we have a lawsuit!

Environment

New Global Metric Will Monitor Zero Emission Growth from 2020

In October 2016, JetBlue and the aviation industry made history. Alongside the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), we collectively agreed to reduce GHG emissions from international flights.

Events, Media & Communications

Ingersoll Rand Speaker to Discuss Sustainable Development Goals at Sustainability Leadership Summit

Randy Newton, vice president of enterprise engineering at Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, will discuss Ingersoll Rand’s technology innovations in support of sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the India Sustainability Leadership Summit in Mumbai. The summit is hosted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Initiative and Frost & Sullivan.

Research, Reports & Publications

Consumers Energy Commitment to the Environment

As featured in the Consumers Energy Sustainability Report 2017: We are the Great Lakes State. Here in Michigan, our lakes, rivers and streams define us. We’re beach-goers, anglers and stone-skippers. We must keep this precious resource thriving for centuries of Michigan summers to come.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Carnival Corporation Rated Among America’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest leisure travel company, has been named one of the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2017 by Corporate Responsibility Magazine (CRM).

Environment

Brightening Our Corner Newsletter - May 2017

The quarterly online newsletter from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has been published.

Environment

Measure For Measure: Aclima’s Davida Herzl

Galileo said we should, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a look at two ways that people are trying to apply that wisdom to climate change. First, we speak to Davida Herzl, the CEO and co-founder of Aclima, a San Francisco-based company that refers to itself as a “FitBit for the planet.”

Research, Reports & Publications

Free Briefing: Targeting the Climate Change Conundrum

194 countries signed the Paris agreement in 2016 in a unified effort to limit global warming and adapt to climate change. However, with nearly 1 million hectares of coastal ecosystems lost last year, global temperatures rising and 11% of the world's population vulnerable to climate change impacts - the May edition of the EC magazine looks at the steps being taken now to reach climate change targets.

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