Environment

Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Joins Arbor Day Foundation Podcast In Latest Episode

Arbor Day Foundation

Environment

Chemours Chambers Works Reaffirms Long-Standing Environmental Stewardship Through WHC Conservation Certification®

Chemours

Environment

Insights From Dr. Marshall Shepherd on Georgia’s Climate Outlook and Resilience

Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Environment

Tier II Reporting Season Is Fast Approaching

Antea Group describes the EPA’s changes to the Tier II reporting requirements and provides tips to ease the reporting process

Environment

Schneider Electric Is Committed to Using 100% Renewable Electricity Across Its Global Operations by 2030

“Our 144,000 employees come to work every day with a passion for green growth. Some of them work to design innovative low-carbon technologies, energy efficient architectures, or circular business models. Others meet customers each day, support their resource productivity ambitions, and enable their journey towards zero emissions. Given this, we could not do less than align with this passion in the way we power our own sites and operations.

Environment

Does Modern Agriculture Hold the Solution to Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change?

Farming is part of who I am. I am passionate about advancing and advocating for modern agriculture. From my early days spent on our family farm in rural Tennessee and throughout a career devoted entirely to agriculture, the farm has played a major role in shaping how I view the world.

Environment

Four Mutual Fund Giants Begin to Address Climate Change Risks in Proxy Votes: How About Your Funds?

Nearly all climate scientists and every government on earth (except for one) agree that society faces profound risks from human-induced climate change. Does your mutual fund company, investment manager, or 401(k) manager agree that the risks are serious and extend to companies in their portfolios?

For an overview of risks to businesses from climate change and what they should disclose, see reports and recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), Chaired by Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City. Examples of these risks already translating into impacts include the record-breaking string of Atlantic hurricanes and wildfires in North America.

Environment

10 Sustainability Stories From GM in 2017

For General Motors, 2017 was a year of both long-term aspirations and short-term progress. The company declared its vision of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Transformative mobility developments took place in areas such as connectivity, car- and ridesharing, and electric and autonomous vehicles – keys, it believes, to unlocking a more sustainable future.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

New Investor Toolkit: Investor Voices on Water

Monika Freyman, Director of Investor Water Engagement shares her insights on the latest interactive web-based resource - “The Investor Water Toolkit” - a comprehensive tool that helps investors become more water aware. The Toolkit closes a critical gap for institutional investors who have long sought a how-to-guide for integrating water risks into portfolio management and decision-making.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Duke Energy in Top 15% of Newsweek's 2017 Green Rankings

Duke Energy has ranked in the top 25% of Newsweek's 2017 Green Rankings. One of the most recognized environmental performance assessments of the world's largest publically traded companies, the Green Rankings rate the top 500 U.S. companies, top 500 Global, and best in industry.

How Individuals Move the Needle by Buying on Voluntary Carbon Markets
Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to reach record highs in 2017 and again in 2018, according to estimates by the Global Carbon Project. This comes after a three-year period where emissions remained flat, which many scientists had hoped signaled a peak in climate warming emissions.

World Agroforestry Centre Publishes a Climate Change Atlas for Central America
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in collaboration with Bioversity International and The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) today published an Atlas titled ‘Suitability of key Central American agroforestry species under future climates’. The Atlas presents current and future suitability maps for 54 species that are commonly used as shade in agroforestry systems in Central America.

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