Fri, Apr 9 2021

School students are marching across New Zealand for climate change today, demanding a better future for young New Zealanders. In the 2019 climate strike more than 170,000 people took to the streets. More than 40 events were held across Aotearoa…

Our commitment to growing the world from the ground up means taking our role in protecting the planet seriously. By 2050, the agriculture sector will need to grow food for almost 10 billion people. At this pivotal moment in history we need to…

Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. In between all the conversations on…

Biden may call for cutting U.S. emissions by 50% from 2005 Goal expected later this month ahead of U.S. climate summit Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg The White House is considering a pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% or more…

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Concentrations of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit record highs, despite a dip in emissions due to the pandemic, scientists said. The latest measurements from the long-running recording station at Mauna Loa Observatory…

As we wake up to the hard realities of the plastic pollution crisis, we are all eager to find sustainable solutions that will allow us to deliver products to our customers without creating waste in the process. As a sustainable packaging designer…

US banks are pledging to help fight the climate crisis alongside the Biden administration, but their boards are dominated by people with climate-related conflicts of interest, and they continue to invest deeply in fossil fuel projects. Three out of…

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The German government implemented large-scale structural labour market reforms in the years 2003 to 2005 to fight high and upward trending unemployment rates (see Figure 1). The reforms aimed at increasing labour market flexibility, improving the…

Japan is preparing to increase its 2030 emissions reduction goal from 26% to 40% on 2013 levels, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo. New Climate Institute analyst Takeshi Kuramochi told Climate Home the 40% figure had been agreed between the…