The Elephant
A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Why the world cannot afford the rich
2024-03-12 in NatureEquality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones. Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
Tagged under: Economics | Consumption | Capitalism | Sustainability
These are the top 5 most sustainable drink containers ranked
2024-03-11 (or before) in endplasticwaste.orgEver wondered how different drink containers fare in terms of sustainability? These results suggest that reusing and reducing waste is still the best way to protect the environment.
Tagged under: Aluminium | Plastic | Recycling | Sustainability
From Publications to Public Actions: The Role of Universities in Facilitating Academic Advocacy and Activism in the Climate and Ecological Emergency
2024-03-09 (or before) in FrontiersThousands of universities have made climate emergency declarations; however the higher education sector is not rising to the collective challenge with the urgency commensurate with scientific warnings. Universities are promoting an increased focus on sustainability through their research, teaching and their own institutional footprints. However, we suggest that such initiatives will be insufficient to catalyse the required transformations in our societies and economies because of i) the time lags inherent in education and research pathways to impact, and ii) their failure to address either real-world political processes or the f...
Tagged under: Climate Justice | Science | Activism | Sustainability
The Guardian view on Europe’s rural revolt: sustainability is in farmers’ interests too | Editorial
2024-02-14 in The GuardianEditorial: The current wave of protests endangers environmental progress. But imaginative politics can get the green deal back on track
Tagged under: Activism | Farming | Sustainability
Land, Water, Air and Freedom
2024-02-12 (or before) in e-elgar.com‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom is a tour de force, deftly weaving together insights from decades of research on ecological distribution conflicts and the global environmental justice movement. Spanning an impressive range of regions and issues, Professor Martínez-Alier's inspiring research sheds light on the complex power relations and socio-ecological processes surrounding environmental justice struggles. This vital book challenges dominant economic paradigms, identifies alternative pathways toward wellbeing, sustainability, and justice, and offers important tools for activism.’ – Alice Mah, University o...
Tagged under: Activism | Sustainability
UN Carbon Removal Estimates 'By No Means Feasible,' Scientists Warn
2024-02-08 (or before) in Yale E360Tagged under: Sustainability
Sustainability limits needed for CO2 removal | Science
2024-02-02 in Science | AAASThe true climate mitigation challenge is revealed by considering sustainability impacts
Tagged under: Climate Change Mitigation | Sustainability
EU lawmakers to Biden: We don’t need more US natural gas
2024-01-25 in The HillBig oil is trying to make Europe “the excuse” for an unnecessary and planet-heating expansion in gas exports, 60 members of the European Parliament wrote in a Tuesday letter to President Biden. The…
Tagged under: Sustainability
Beyond the IPCC for Food: An Overarching Framework for Food Systems Sustainability Assessment
2024-01-15 (or before) in MDPI - Publisher of Open Access JournalsFood systems are responsible for a large share of anthropogenic impacts. In recent debates, the need to strengthen the link between science and policy has emerged with the proposal to establish a new global science–policy interface for a sustainable food system. While the clash between those who consider necessary and those who do not consider necessary the creation of this panel increases, this paper takes inspiration from this debate to highlight how strengthening the interactions between science and policy should be supported by increasing the informativeness of current sustainability assessments, regardless of the need...
Tagged under: Climate Change Mitigation | Sustainability
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability
2023-12-22 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comGreen growth and post-growth are alternative concepts for transformative change. I investigated the amount of support each enjoys among sustainability…
Tagged under: Sustainability
Carbon opportunity cost increases carbon footprint advantage of grain-finished beef
2023-12-15 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceBeef production accounts for the largest share of global livestock greenhouse gas emissions and is an important target for climate mitigation efforts. Most life-cycle assessments comparing the carbon footprint of beef production systems have been limited to production emissions. None also consider potential carbon sequestration due to grazing and alternate uses of land used for production. We assess the carbon footprint of 100 beef production systems in 16 countries, including production emissions, soil carbon sequestration from grazing, and carbon opportunity cost—the potential carbon sequestration that could occur on lan...
Tagged under: Cattle and Dairy Farming | Climate Change Mitigation | Sustainability
Heat pump supply chain environmental impact reduction to improve the UK energy sustainability, resiliency and security - Scientific Reports
2023-11-23 in NatureVarious heat pump technologies are examined from an environmental perspective using a life cycle assessment approach. The investigated heat pump systems utilize air, ground, and water as their energy sources. Additionally, an innovative heat pump powered by green hydrogen is investigated in this study, to evaluate its environmental impacts and potential to commercialise on a large scale. A range of supply chain scenarios is explored, considering the main suppliers of the UK market. The reshoring heat pump industry and supply chain are evaluated to enhance energy resilience and security within the UK. The findings indicate that t...
Tagged under: Net Zero | Electricity Grid | Sustainability
The world has enough minerals for low-carbon electricity
2023-11-13 by in sustainabilitybynumbers.comTotal reserves are not the issue – mine construction and geopolitical risks are likely to be larger barriers to progress.
Tagged under: Electricity | Sustainability
About Us | edie - driving sustainability in business
2023-10-27 (or before) in Edie AwardsFind out about edie's mission to drive sustainability in business and our latest news and events, as well as who we are and what we do.
Tagged under: Sustainability
The world will need less energy after the energy transition
2023-10-23 (or before) by in sustainabilitybynumbers.comElectrification means that final energy demand falls, without changing the value that we get from energy services.
Tagged under: Sustainability
India to push developed nations to become 'carbon negative' before 2050, sources say | Reuters
2023-10-14 in ReutersIndia wants to push developed nations to become carbon negative rather than carbon neutral by 2050, arguing that would allow emerging market economies more time to use fossil fuels for development needs, two Indian government sources said.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Sustainability
“No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia
2023-10-06 (or before) in FrontiersEmergency declarations, most academics continue to operate according to 'businessas-usual'. However, such passivity increases the risk of climate impacts so severe as to threaten the persistence of organised society, and thus HEIs themselves. This paper explores why a maladaptive cognitive-practice gap persists and asks what steps could be taken by members of HEIs to activate the academy. Drawing on insights from climate psychology and sociology, we argue that a process of 'socially organised denial' currently exists within universities, leading academics to experience a state of 'double reality' that inhibits feelings of accoun...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
Young people in sustainability | Grain Sustainability | Sustainability Strategy
2023-09-04 (or before) in Sustainability ServicesOur latest thought on the role and experience of young people in sustainability from the perspective of a work experience student.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Insight: Coal miners forced to save for a rainy day by insurance snub | Reuters
2023-09-01 (or before) in ReutersSome coal producers are having to set aside tens of millions of dollars to cover their own risks as they are cut adrift by insurers, making it more difficult and costly to do business amid a surge in demand for the fossil fuel.
Tagged under: Insurance | Sustainability
A Global Review of Insurance Industry Responses to Climate Change - The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
2023-08-30 (or before) in Springer VerlagA vanguard of insurers is adapting its business model to the realities of climate change. In many ways, insurers are still catching up both to mainstream science and to their customers, which, in response to climate change and energy volatility, are increasingly changing the way they construct buildings, transport people and goods, design products and produce energy. Customers, as well as regulators and shareholders, are eager to see insurers provide more products and services that respond to the “greening” of the global economy, expand their efforts to improve disaster resilience and otherwise be proactive about the...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insurance | Sustainability
Emergent constraint on crop yield response to warmer temperature from field experiments - Nature Sustainability
2023-08-28 (or before) in NatureGlobal responses of crops to warmer temperatures will affect agricultural sustainability. This study of maize, rice, soybean and wheat projects yield reductions of 3–13% under 2 °C warming.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Sustainability has lost its meaning as the nuclear lobby triumphs
2023-08-26 (or before) in EuronewsListening to the 14 EU country-strong Nuclear Alliance that lobbied for nuclear power's green label and now wants to see it treated the same as other renewables means everything is allowed, Thomas Stuart Kirkland and Christiana Mauro write.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Sustainability
"We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon's fading health
2023-08-25 (or before) in NatureClimate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Health | Tipping Points | Sustainability
What's Happening in the Ocean and Why It Matters to You and Me
2023-08-08 (or before) by in www-scientificamerican-com.cdn.ampproject.orgWith unprecedented marine heat waves sweeping the globe, we need better solutions for ocean sustainability
Tagged under: Oceans | Sustainability
Number of green jobs in UK reached record high in 2021 - edie
2023-07-31 (or before) by in Edie AwardsThe number of UK-based jobs in low-carbon and renewable energy sectors in 2021 was almost 40,000 higher than in 2020, official new figures show. But the Government is still not on track to deliver its flagship pledge of two million green jobs by 2030.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Net Zero | Sustainability
IMF increasingly worried about 'material' impact of climate change on economies | Reuters
2023-07-28 (or before) in ReutersThe International Monetary Fund on Tuesday called for better coordinated efforts to address the causes of climate change, warning extreme weather is posing material risks to countries globally, especially developing economies already saddled with high debts.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability | Finance
Focus: P&G drops forest pledge, drawing ire of green groups, investors | Reuters
2023-07-26 (or before) in ReutersGlobal consumer products maker Procter & Gamble dropped its pledge from a corporate policy to not buy wood pulp from degraded forests, a company executive disclosed to investors in a previously-unreported July 18 briefing.
Tagged under: Trees | Sustainability
Fiscal risks and sustainability – July 2023 - Office for Budget Responsibility
2023-07-13 (or before) in Home - Office for Budget ResponsibilityTagged under: Sustainability
Operationalising positive tipping points towards global sustainability | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2023-07-09 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentOperationalising positive tipping points towards global sustainability - Volume 5
Tagged under: Tipping Points | Sustainability
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers - Nature Sustainability
2023-06-22 (or before) in NatureCurrent models, based on incremental changes in a single stress, have limited ability to anticipate abrupt ecosystem changes due to climate and human activities. Experiments on four models simulating ecosystems with a range of anthropogenic interactions show how much earlier abrupt change can happen.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse | Sustainability
The Fragility of Truth in the Existential Crisis - TheHumanist.com
2023-06-13 in TheHumanist.comDr. Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM). After receiving his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math […]
Tagged under: Sustainability
Why the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2023-06-09 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentWhy the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions - Volume 5
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
Sustainability Reporting Clause for the Constitution of a Private Limited Company | The Chancery Lane Project
2023-06-06 (or before) by in The Chancery Lane ProjectTagged under: Sustainability
Climate paradox: Emission cuts could ‘unmask’ deadly face of climate change, scientists warn
2023-06-01 in The HillScientists have uncovered a potentially lethal paradox at the heart of efforts to slow human-caused climate change. A series of new studies suggest a stark truth. One the one hand, cutting fossil f…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Quantifying the human cost of global warming - Nature Sustainability
2023-05-23 (or before) in NatureAs an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’, which reflects the historically highly conserved distribution of human population density relative to mean annual temperature.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Documents reveal how fossil fuel industry created, pushed anti-ESG campaign
2023-05-18 in The HillEditor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that model legislation for an “Energy Discrimination Elimination Act” was submitted by an ALEC member but rejected by ALEC…
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Legislation | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions - Nature Sustainability
2023-05-16 (or before) in NatureMany of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. This Review illustrates how insight into politics can help policymakers craft strategies to address the ambition gap, the implementation gap and the international action gap.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Climate Impacts - Climate Trends
2023-05-10 (or before) in Climate TrendsDiscover the far-reaching effects of climate change. Explore its impact on ecosystems, weather patterns, and global sustainability efforts.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay
2023-05-03 in The GuardianA Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war
Tagged under: Cattle and Dairy Farming | Sustainability
LinkedIn calls for green upskilling, as demand for sustainability roles grows
2023-04-30 in Business GreenNew data reveals demand in the green labour market is accelerating faster than supply, fuelling fears of a sustainability skills bottleneck
Tagged under: Sustainability
Shell Pulls Out of Large Carbon Capture Project in Northern England
2023-04-25 in jpt.spe.orgShell has decided to pull out of the Northern Endurance Partnership, one of Britain's largest carbon capture and storage projects.
Tagged under: Shell | Carbon Capture and Storage | Sustainability
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption - Nature Sustainability
2023-04-14 (or before) in NatureUrban water crises, due to droughts and unsustainable water consumption, are becoming increasingly recurrent in metropolitan cities. This study shows the role of social inequalities in such crises, revealing the implications of water overconsumption by privileged social groups and individuals.
Tagged under: Drought | Sustainability
Just how far is ‘beyond growth’ for policy makers?—Economics for Rebels podcast with Tim Jackson
2023-04-14 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityEcological economists integrating ecological and critical social perspectives have long been working on ideas to bring about just sustainability transformations. This podcast aims at communicating …
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth | Sustainability
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2023-04-13 in Schumacher InstituteSystem Change for Sustainability Bringing the power of systems thinking to civil society, government, business and research. Generating hope for positive change in our interconnected world Find Out MORE "As our world continues to change
Tagged under: Sustainability
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People | The Tyee
2023-04-09 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaCreator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting Englands housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals
2023-03-31 (or before) in OSF - Center for Open ScienceSecure housing is core to the Sustainable Development Goals and a fundamental human right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainability objectives remain under-researched. We explore the impact of current English government housing policy, and alternative housing strategies, on national carbon and biodiversity goals. Using material flow and land use change/biodiversity models, we estimate from 2022-2050 under current policy housing alone would consume 104% of Englands cumulative carbon budget (2.6/2.5Gt [50% chance of <1.5C]); 12% from the construction and operation of new builds and 92% from the existing s...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing | Sustainability
Why “my country only emits 1% of emissions” is a lame excuse for rich countries to not tackle climate change
2023-03-30 (or before) by in Sustainability by numbers | Hannah Ritchie | SubstackFive reasons why small countries can punch above their weight.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Shifting from Publications to Public Actions: Kent researchers win Sustainability in Higher Education award – School of Economics News
2023-03-27 (or before) in Blogs at Kent- Showcasing groundbreaking work at KentTagged under: Economics | Sustainability
Greenwashing 'biggest challenge' facing ESG progress, say infrastructure professionals
2023-03-20 by in New Private MarketsThe backlash against ESG in the US may be making investors rethink how they communicate around sustainability, but it is the spectre of greenwashing that poses the bigger threat, said panellists at Infrastructure Investor Network's Global Summit. .
Tagged under: ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Why you should use emotion to build support for sustainability
2023-02-23 by in Leadership for Sustainability | Realise EarthEmotion is the most powerful motivator to build support for sustainability and it's the key to your initiative succeeding and making a real difference.
Tagged under: Activism | Sustainability
Boldly not going: zero-travel ‘touring’ play paves the way for eco theatre
2023-02-21 in The GuardianUsing local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability
Tagged under: Sustainability
Stanford study uses AI to predict global warming threshold timelines
2023-02-06 in woods.stanford.eduMedia coverage of a new Stanford-led study that uses AI to predict when we will pass key global warming thresholds. The Guardian | Jan 30, 2023 | Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds | Noah Diffenbaugh discusses the evidence and impact of the study's climate projections. USA Today | Jan 30, 2023 | Artificial intelligence predicts climate change coming faster than we recently thought, new study says | Noah Diffenbaugh on the risk of passing significant climate thresholds.
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Sustainability
Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas consumption
2023-01-25 (or before) in cam.ac.ukFirst study to look at long-term effect of home insulation in England and Wales finds fall in gas consumption per household was small and only lasts a few
Tagged under: Insulation | Housing | Sustainability
Nature Conservancy Hooked Corporate America on an Empty Climate Solution
2023-01-19 (or before) in BloombergCompanies say they’re saving forests by buying offsets, but many of these lands don’t need defending
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Sustainability
Fuel from Seawater? What's the Catch?
2022-12-15 (or before) in Smithsonian MagazineScientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory recently flew a model plane using a liquid hydrocarbon fuel they sourced from the ocean
Tagged under: Oceans | Sustainability
UN unveils satellite-based system to spot methane #GlobalWarming #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis [Video]
2022-11-12 in Energy News VideosThe UN unveiled on Friday a satellite-based system to detect methane emissions as part of efforts to cut down on the major contributor to global warming. MARS will use data from global mapping satellites to detect methane "hot spots" and large plumes of the gas, and identify its source, the UN Environment Programme said in a statement.
Tagged under: Africa | Methane | Sustainability
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality - Nature Sustainability
2022-11-11 (or before) in NatureThe environmental implications of meeting the needs of the poorest are under debate. By showing substantial inequalities in natural resource claims and responsibility for ecological damage globally, this study estimates and discusses the impacts of achieving just access on the Earth system.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Our City, Our World - Brighton and Hove Climate Change, Sustainability and Environmental Education Programme
2022-11-09 (or before) in ourcityourworld.co.ukUsing the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future. We will work with young people, educators, community organisations, the council and relevant partners to promote a just and sustainable world where environmental and social responsibility drive individual, institutional, and community choices.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
2022-11-06 (or before) in Science | AAASDevelopments in the planetary boundaries concept provide a framework to support global sustainability.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Report: UK carbon regulator needed to combat 'inconsistent' industrial CO2 reporting
2022-10-31 in Business GreenHeavy industry requires simplified and consistent carbon measuring methodologies if UK is to reach net zero, warns Energy Systems Catapult
Tagged under: Net Zero | Sustainability
How Many Trees Are Falling for the Wood Pellet Industry? | The Tyee
2022-10-19 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaAs disaster looms in our old-growth forests, BC needs to address this burning question.
Tagged under: Trees | Sustainability
Where the world’s largest companies stand on nature
2022-10-03 (or before) in McKinsey & CompanyTagged under: Sustainability
Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019 - Nature Sustainability
2022-10-01 (or before) in NatureUnderstanding the connection between economic inequality and climate change requires rich and reliable data. This study combines recently assembled data on income and wealth inequality with environmental data to shed light on the uneven individual contributions to climate change across the world.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
To encourage sustainability, we must remember we are apes, not angels | New Scientist
2022-09-22 (or before) in New ScientistIf we want to change our consumerist society, we need greener status signals that appeal to our animal instincts, says Solitaire Townsend
Tagged under: Sustainability
Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market H1 2022
2022-09-16 in Climate Bonds Initiative | Mobilizing debt capital markets for climate change solutionsThe Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market H1 2022 Report, this is the 14th report in our pricing series, in which we observe how green bonds perform in the primary markets. This report includes green bonds issued in the first six months of 2022 (H1 2022) and in a first time analysis we saw greenium emerge for Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs), covered in the spotlight section of this report.
Tagged under: Sustainability
“We don't want to be the bad guys”: Oil industry's sensemaking of the sustainability transition paradox
2022-09-10 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe operating model of the global oil industry is not compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement. For the industry, there is a fundamental tensi…
Tagged under: Sustainability
Jordan Peterson, the Climate Crisis Deniers’ New Mouthpiece | The Tyee
2022-09-07 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaTouting myths to millions is ‘highly irresponsible,’ say experts trying to avert disaster.
Tagged under: Sustainability
How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth?
2022-09-05 (or before) in YouTubeAs the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability? Green growt...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Environmentalist Elizabeth Wathuti: ‘Perhaps I had something President Biden really needed to hear’
2022-08-30 in The GuardianKenya’s rising climate star tells how her speech at Cop26 grabbed a world leader’s attention, and urges policymakers to go beyond mere pledges
Tagged under: Activism | Joe Biden | COP26 | Africa | Sustainability
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world - Nature Sustainability
2022-08-05 (or before) in NatureSustainable agrifood systems are critical to redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective presents an agenda and examples for the comprehensive redesign of agrifood systems according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Ithaca is electric: Stage set for decarbonization of city’s buildings - The Ithaca Voice
2022-07-14 by in ithacavoice.comITHACA, N.Y.—After being approved over eight months ago, the City of Ithaca’s nationally recognized plan to electrify its building stock kicked off on Thursday at the Southside Community Center, which will be the first building in the city to be fully electrified. Conceived by Ithaca’s Director of Sustainability Luis Aguirre-Torres, the program is the first […]
Tagged under: Sustainability
Global redistribution of income and household energy footprints: a computational thought experiment | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2022-07-08 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentGlobal redistribution of income and household energy footprints: a computational thought experiment - Volume 4
Tagged under: Sustainability
‘Carbon Capture’ Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades | The Tyee
2022-07-08 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaThe touted tech is still scarce and pricey, and even oilsands allies counsel caution.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Greenpeace | Sustainability
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average
2022-07-06 in Sustainability TimesTagged under: Arctic | Sustainability
Enough. A review of corporate sustainability, in a world running out of time.
2022-06-28 (or before) in ey.comCorporate Sustainability’s moment has finally arrived. However, to fulfil the role the world needs us to must be honest about the compromises we have made to get here, and creative in repositioning ourselves for the crucial decade ahead.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Codelco shuts Ventanas smelter
2022-06-19 in Mining Journal | The leading publication for global mining newsIntoxication forces smelter shutdown
Tagged under: Chile | Sustainability
Over 130 companies implement sustainability reporting metrics
2022-05-25 (or before) in The World Economic ForumA coalition of leading firms have co-created a comprehensive corporate system to highlight the need for an aligned and consistent ESG reporting system.
Tagged under: Coal | Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems
2022-05-22 (or before) in GOV.UKTagged under: Children | Climate Change | Women and Children | Sustainability
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis - Scientific Reports
2022-05-15 (or before) in NatureIn this paper we afford a quantitative analysis of the sustainability of current world population growth in relation to the parallel deforestation process adopting a statistical point of view. We consider a simplified model based on a stochastic growth process driven by a continuous time random walk, which depicts the technological evolution of human kind, in conjunction with a deterministic generalised logistic model for humans-forest interaction and we evaluate the probability of avoiding the self-destruction of our civilisation. Based on the current resource consumption rates and best estimate of technological rate growth our...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Collapse | Trees | Sustainability
The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land - Nature Sustainability
2022-05-15 (or before) in NatureShifting global food production to plant-based diets by 2050 can sequester 99–163% of the CO2 emissions budget towards limiting climate warming to 1.5 °C.
Tagged under: Food Production and Consumption | Sustainability
Climate Anxiety | EAUC
2022-04-29 (or before) by in EAUCThe EAUC is the sustainability champion for universities and colleges in the UK.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Sustainability
Moving Beyond GDP: The Case for Wealth as a Core Measure of National Progress
2022-04-29 (or before) in Earth Negotiations Bulletin - International Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentDespite its frequent use as the main measure of progress, GDP fails to account for health, happiness, inequality, and environmental sustainability. An expert panel explored how a focus on wealth could inform policymaking in Africa—and how to make the shift.
Tagged under: Africa | GDP | Economic Growth | Health | Sustainability
Online course: Pathways to Sustainability - STEPS Centre
2022-03-19 (or before) in Steps Centre - Exploring Pathways to SustainabilityThis online course gives you an introduction to the STEPS Centre’s core conceptual approach, the Pathways Approach to sustainability. The course covers theories, methodologies and practical examples. On your journey through the course, you’ll be encouraged to think about the roles of knowledge and uncertainty, policy processes, technology and innovation, and resource politics. You’ll also...
Tagged under: Sustainability
A mechanism that can change the world | Stefan Brunnhuber | TEDxDresden
2022-03-05 (or before) in YouTubeEnding poverty. Offering education to everyone. Saving our environment. Transforming into a sustainable and fair society is possible but it is very expensive...
Tagged under: Economics | Sustainability | Finance
Designing a Resilience and Sustainability Trust: A Development-Centered Approach | Global Development Policy Center
2022-03-04 (or before) in Boston UniversityTagged under: Economic Growth | Sustainability
Plastic packaging increases fresh food waste, study finds
2022-02-24 in The GuardianResearch by sustainability charity Wrap debunks idea single-use plastic on fruit and veg helps prevent waste
Tagged under: Sustainability
Restored tropical forests will store carbon even in the face of climate change
2022-02-18 in Sustainability TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Sustainability
Opinion | Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet
2022-02-01 in The New York TimesTagged under: Farming | Sustainability
Degrowth: The future that fashion has been looking for?
2022-01-30 (or before) in Vogue Business: Fashion Industry Expertise From an Insider's Perspective | Vogue BusinessTagged under: Degrowth | Sustainability
Aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability | Evidence submissions to the EAC Beyond GDP inquiry
2022-01-29 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityAhead of hearings planned for 9 February 2022, the UK Environmental Audit Committee invited written submissions to examine how the UK Government could incorporate environmental sustainability into …
Tagged under: Economic Growth | Sustainability
Environmental News Network - Climate change outracing EU targets, WWF warns
2021-12-21 (or before) in enn.comA global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife | Health | Sustainability
Our climate won't survive without science. | The Sustainability X® Magazine
2021-12-19 (or before) in MediumHow ethically bankrupt politicians are paving the way towards ecocide
Tagged under: Sustainability
Research On Degrowth
2021-12-19 (or before) in Annual ReviewsScholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the conditions of its realization require additional study. Research on degrowth has reinvigorated the limits to growth debate with critical examination of the historical, cultural, social, and political forces that have made economic growth a dominant obje...
Tagged under: Activism | Degrowth | Economics | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Project InsideOut
2021-12-05 (or before) in Project InsideOut - PIOProject InsideOut seeks to create a new mindset for engaging communities on our urgent climate and sustainability issues. We are an emerging global community that unites activists with clinical psychologists and evidence-based research to drive sustainable behavior change for our planet.
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Earth’s vast underground ‘circulatory system’ will be mapped for first time — and it’s made of fungi
2021-11-30 in The Hill“An understanding of underground fungal networks is essential to our efforts to protect the soil, on which life depends, before it is too late,” said Jane Goodall.
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Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems - Nature Sustainability
2021-11-20 (or before) in NatureAvoiding catastrophic climate change requires that we avoid losing key natural carbon reserves. This study maps such irrecoverable carbon globally and finds a third of the remaining managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities and nearly a quarter in protected areas.
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Charting the social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations
2021-11-17 by in sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.comFor at least the last 30 years, no country has met the basic needs of its residents without overconsuming natural resources, and none are on track to do so over the next 30 years. Countries tend to overshoot fair shares of planetary boundaries faster than they achieve minimum social thresholds.
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Net zero. Boundless opportunities.
2021-10-29 (or before) in Microsoft Ð Cloud, Computers, Apps & GamingImagine sustainability that means business.
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There Is No Such Thing as Sustainable Beef
2021-10-27 in Sentient Media - Reporting on the Impact of Animal AgricultureThe beef industry is trying to clean up its image by promising that it's doing more to help the climate crisis than hurt it. Science says otherwise.
Tagged under: Farming | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Sustainability
Drax dropped from index of green energy firms amid biomass doubts
2021-10-19 in The GuardianDoubts over sustainability of company’s wood-burning power plant mount within financial sector
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Sustainability
UK climate chief warns Tories of cost of delaying net zero
2021-10-12 in PoliticoAlok Sharma had a message for those in his party who oppose the UK’s push for net zero.
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Wind Power | Net Zero | Sustainability
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill - Nature Sustainability
2021-10-11 (or before) in NatureThe possibility of a huge oil spill off the coast of Yemen, already in crisis, is increasingly likely. This study projects the likely spill extent and impacts to public health, food, water and air.
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McDonald’s rolls out brand platform to showcase its ‘positive impact’ on people and planet
2021-10-07 in Marketing WeekFast-food giant McDonald's is upping its focus on sustainability via the launch of its ‘Change a little, Change a lot’ platform.
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Scaling behaviour change for a 1.5-degree world: challenges and opportunities | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2021-09-29 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentScaling behaviour change for a 1.5-degree world: challenges and opportunities - Volume 4
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Collapse, environment, and society
2021-09-28 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceHistorical collapse of ancient states poses intriguing social-ecological questions, as well as potential applications to global change and contemporary strategies for sustainability. Five Old World case studies are developed to identify interactive inputs, triggers, and feedbacks in devolution. Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt. Political simplification undermines traditional structures of authority to favor militarization, whereas disintegration is preconditioned or triggered by acute stress (insecurity, environmental or economic crises, famine), with breakdown accompanied or followed by demographic decline. Undue atten...
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All Primark clothes to be made using recycled or ‘more sustainably sourced’ materials
2021-09-17 in Circular OnlineThe high street fashion retailer, Primark, has pledged to make ‘more sustainable choices affordable for all’ as it launches a programme of new sustainability commitments.
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V&A · Sustainability
2021-09-16 (or before) in vam.ac.ukOur overarching ambition is to enable people, through art, design and performance, to contribute to a thriving planet and shape sustainable futures.
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Measures concerning use of PFAS | Fluorochemicals | Daikin Global
2021-09-16 (or before) in Fluorochemicals | Daikin GlobalIntroducing measures concerning use of PFAS
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Environmental Sustainability - Reducing Museums' Carbon Footprint - National Museum Directors' Council Website
2021-09-14 (or before) in National Museum Directors' Council - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteTagged under: Sustainability
Nearly all global farm subsidies harm people and planet – UN
2021-09-14 in The GuardianAlmost 90% of the $540bn of support a year harms people’s health, the climate and drives inequality
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MIT Better World (Sustainability)
2021-09-13 (or before) in YouTubeTagged under: Sustainability
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
2021-08-30 in The GuardianThe livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake’s occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently
Tagged under: Deforestation | Africa | Fish | Wildlife | Sustainability
Economic Growth - Facing Future
2021-08-21 (or before) in Facing FutureInfinite Growth on a Finite Planet “Global civilization has an operating system. It is disastrously flawed. It is killing us. It is known by two common names: money and growth economics. Money is a virus of the mind which uses humanity [and nature] for its own reproduction.” – Stuart Scott, Director of the Facing Future … Continue reading "Economic Growth"
Tagged under: Deforestation | Oceans | Farming | Wildfires | Drought | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Methane | Economics | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels | Economic Growth | Sea Level | Trees | Sustainability
If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum | Meryl Batchelder
2021-08-19 in The GuardianSustainability and the environment should be a thread running through every subject, says science teacher Meryl Batchelder
Tagged under: Children | Women and Children | Sustainability
Greenwashing in the legal industry- how to spot it and why it matters | by Liam Sharkey | Medium
2021-08-07 (or before) in MediumA new generation of engaged, climate-conscious lawyers are challenging the legal industry to adopt new standards of sustainability.
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1.5 °C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways - Nature Communications
2021-08-06 (or before) in NatureEstablished climate mitigation modelling relies on controversial negative emissions and unprecedented technological change, but neglects to consider degrowth scenarios. Here the authors show that degrowth scenarios minimize many key risks for feasibility and sustainability and thus need to be thoroughly assessed.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Climate Change Mitigation | Sustainability
Korindo: Korean palm oil giant stripped of sustainability status - BBC News
2021-07-16 (or before) in The BBCA BBC investigation found Korindo had been buying and burning swathes of Asia's largest rainforests.
Tagged under: Rainforests | Sustainability
Study: Deforestation linked heat, dryness causing billions of losses in soy revenue in Brazil
2021-07-15 (or before) by in feednavigator.comThe destruction of ecosystems in Brazil endangers local soy agriculture: Researchers, in a new paper, have calculated that extreme heat costs losses in soy revenue, up to US$3.55bm annually due to drier conditions.
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Commentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
2021-07-11 (or before) in FrontiersCommentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
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Vision, ethos & strategy | Environmental sustainability: a whole school approach - National Governance Association
2021-06-25 (or before) in National Governors AssociationThis guide encourages governing boards to adopt environmental sustainability as a core value and make it a key element of strategy development.
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Growth without economic growth
2021-06-19 (or before) in European Environment AgencyEconomic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health. It is unlikely that a long-lasting, absolute decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures and impacts can be achieved at the global scale; therefore, societies need to rethink what is meant by growth and progress and their meaning for global sustainability.
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Discourses of climate delay | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2021-06-09 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentDiscourses of climate delay - Volume 3
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Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
2021-06-04 (or before) in Ecology & SocietyRockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F. S. Chapin, III, E. Lambin, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C. A. De Wit, T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P. K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R. W. Corell, V. J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B. Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen, and J. Foley. 2009. Planetary boundaries:exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03180-140232
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Sustainability
Global Land Outlook (GLO) | Knowledge Hub
2021-06-04 (or before) in Knowledge Hub | Knowledge HubThe premise of the Global Land Outlook (GLO) is that land, and its associated resources such as soil, water, and biodiversity, comprise a relatively fixed stock of natural capital. The increasing demand for land-based goods and services, and the way they are today produced is adversely impacting human health and the future sustainability of the planet.
Tagged under: Health | Water Resources | Sustainability
START - Arctic biodiversity, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
2021-05-20 (or before) in Arctic biodiversity, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)Arctic biodiversity is a site for information on status and trends of the Arctic's living resources. The site contains conclusions from the projects and activities of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council. CAFF's mandate is to address the conservation of Arctic biodiversity, and to communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic, helping to promote practices which ensure the sustainability of the Arctic’s living resources. It does so through various monitoring, assessment and expert group activities.
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Acute riverine microplastic contamination due to avoidable releases of untreated wastewater - Nature Sustainability
2021-05-14 (or before) in NatureThe authors show how untreated wastewater laced with microplastics and raw sewage is routinely discharged into UK river flows that are too low to disperse the microplastics downstream. This discharge creates acute microplastic contamination of river beds that threatens biodiversity and the quality of riverine habitats.
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Rivers | Sustainability
Insights from early COVID-19 responses about promoting sustainable action - Nature Sustainability
2021-05-13 (or before) in NatureAligned action to address the COVID-19 crisis contrasts with the heterogeneous response to tackle climate and sustainability challenges. The authors discuss the importance of strong personal norms and lessons for sustainability.
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Nature Sustainability
2021-05-13 (or before) in NatureNature Sustainability will publish significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy ...
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Overselling Sustainability Reporting
2021-05-01 in Harvard Business ReviewFor two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. But although such reporting has become widespread, and some firms are deriving benefits from it, environmental damage and social inequality are still growing. This article, by Timberland’s former COO, outlines the problems with both sustainability reporting and sustainable investing. The author discusses nonstandard metrics, insufficient auditing, unreliable ESG ratings, and more. But real progress, he says, req...
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Cambridge Sustainability Commission report on Scaling Behaviour Change
2021-04-18 (or before) in Rapid Transition AllianceA major new report by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change calls on policy makers to target the UK’s polluter elite to trigger a shift to more sustainable...
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Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms - Nature Sustainability
2021-03-26 (or before) in NatureMost of the world’s farms are small. This study finds that smaller farms have higher yields and biodiversity than larger ones but little difference in greenhouse gas emissions and profits.
Tagged under: Farming | Greenhouse Gases | Sustainability
Scientists need to face both facts and feelings when dealing with the climate crisis | Kimberly Nicholas
2021-03-24 in The GuardianI was taught to use my head, not my heart. But acknowledging sadness at what is lost can help us safeguard the future, says professor of sustainability science Kimberly Nicholas
Tagged under: Wildfires | Sea Level | Health | Sustainability
The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature - Nature Sustainability
2021-03-09 (or before) in NatureNature benefits people in diverse ways, but insight on the relative value of conserving or restoring versus using intensively is limited. Synthesizing data from 62 sites worldwide, this study finds benefits from conservation and restoration often outweighing private ones and that these rise with the social cost of carbon.
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This Bioplastic Made From Fish Scales Just Won the James Dyson Award
2021-03-07 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineBritish product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Women and Children | Sustainability
His Holiness Pope Francis | Our moral imperative to act on climate change [Italian]
2021-03-04 (or before) in YouTube(Turn on subtitles using the CC button in the bottom right of your screen.)Take action on climate change at http://countdown.ted.com.The global climate crisi...
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The Big Sustainability Illusion - how a whole crowd of incrementalist ESG progress proponents wants to make us think they support "Sustainability"
2021-03-01 (or before) in LinkedInReform of corporate disclosure on sustainability is highly discussed at this moment; triggered by the illusion that stakeholder capitalism is the new horse to bet on (should that not have happened 20 years ago?), pledges made by several networks advocating for further convergence in the last couple
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The Big Sustainability Illusion - how to escape the ESG bubble and finally deliver on sustainability!
2021-03-01 (or before) in LinkedInPart three of a mini-series, see link to earlier parts at the end. When I wrote the first and second part of ‘The Big Sustainability Illusion’ I had little idea what would happen, somewhat throwing myself in the ring here, and ready to expect some punches.
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Homepage | UN Global Compact
2021-03-01 (or before) in UN Global CompactThe United Nations Global Compact is a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to undertake partnerships in support of UN goals.
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Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century
2021-02-21 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comEcologically unequal exchange theory posits asymmetric net flows of biophysical resources from poorer to richer countries. To date, empirical evidence…
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Sustainability: What are the alternatives to economic growth?
2021-01-14 (or before) in European Environment AgencyHow can societies and people prosper and grow without harming the environment and climate? Is it possible to implement the European Green Deal through social innovations that have little or no environmental impact? To broaden the sustainability debate, a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today, explores alternative ways of thinking about growth and progress.
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Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
2021-01-13 (or before) in FrontiersWe report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms — including humanity — is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic system, or leadership, is prepared to handle the predicted disasters, or even capable of such action. Third, this dire situation places an extraordinary responsibility on s...
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Health | Sustainability
Get Involved - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2021-01-02 (or before) in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 2021The 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in November 2021, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
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Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion - Nature Sustainability
2020-12-21 (or before) in NatureAgricultural expansion to grow food, fibre and biofuel will further threaten biodiversity. This study finds that almost 90% of terrestrial vertebrate species will lose habitat to such expansion, but proactive food policies could reduce these threats.
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EU set to miss targets on sustainability after agreeing fishing quotas
2020-12-17 in The GuardianMember states blame uncertainty over Brexit as reason for breach of next year’s limits
Tagged under: Fish | Sustainability
Lloyd's of London steps back from coal in first climate change policy | Reuters
2020-12-16 (or before) in ReutersLloyd's of London is scaling back its exposure to coal and oil sands, the commercial insurance market said in its first sustainability report on Wednesday, in a reversal of its traditional hands-off approach to climate change strategy.
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Sustainability
2020-10-15 (or before) by in chevron.comChevron believes the future of energy is lower-carbon and affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more sustainable world for all.
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Debating Nature's Value resources - ARU
2020-10-11 (or before) in University courses at ARU | Anglia Ruskin University - ARUThe Debating Nature's Value team have drawn together some key reading and their own blog pieces to inform the debate
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Sucking Up to Business Leads Directly to Ecological Collapse | The Sustainability X® Magazine
2020-10-10 (or before) in MediumPlaytime is over — either we’re fighting for the climate in a meaningful way or we’re not.
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2020-10-09 (or before) in Climate Psychology AlliancePsychology for understanding and facing climate change and difficult truths – responding to ecological crisis and helping each other engage
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Sustainability
Business Green
2020-09-22 (or before) in Business GreenThe UK's leading source of information for the green economy, delivering the latest news and in-depth analysis on green business and environmental issues.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
The 1.5-degree challenge
2020-09-17 (or before) in McKinsey & CompanyTagged under: Sustainability
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century - ScienceDirect
2020-09-08 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Sustainability
GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters
2020-07-29 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanIt’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth | Sustainability
UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2020-06-20 (or before) in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 2021The 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in November 2021, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
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The Altruist Within: In pursuit of sustainability and justice in a broken financial system | By Tim Jackson
2020-05-14 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis blog is an edited version of a keynote CUSP director Tim Jackson gave at the 2013 Sea of Faith Annual Conference in Leicester. In outlining the philosophical foundation of a different approach to economics, this essay speaks as much to the financial crisis from 2008, as it does to the current health and economic predicament from COVID-19.
Tagged under: Economics | Health | Sustainability
Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
2020-04-09 (or before) in McKinsey & CompanyTagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Threshold concepts and sustainability: features of a contested paradigm
2020-04-05 (or before) in facetsjournal.comThreshold concepts describe the core concepts that people must master if they are to effectively think from within a new discipline or paradigm. Here, I discuss threshold concepts relevant to the science and practice of sustainability, unpacking the persistent challenges and critiques that sustainability has faced over the decades. Sustainability is immensely popular, but also endlessly critiqued as being naïve, vague, and easy to co-opt. I argue that these challenges can be traced to sustainability’s status as a robust, alternative world view to the industrial, neoliberal paradigm. The threshold concepts discussed be...
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Shining a light on international energy inequality
2020-03-28 (or before) by in University of LeedsA new study examines energy inequality for income classes across 86 countries, from highly industrialised to developing ones, revealing extreme disparity in energy footprints, both within nations and globally.
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Climate and Environmental Sustainability Crisis - Position Paper
2020-02-18 (or before) in Google DocsTagged under: Sustainability
The material footprint of nations
2020-01-25 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThis original research paper addresses a key issue in sustainability science: How many and which natural resources are needed to sustain modern economies? Simple as it may seem, this question is far from trivial to answer and has indeed not been addressed satisfactorily in the scholarly literature. We use the most comprehensive and most highly resolved economic input–output framework of the world economy together with a detailed database of global material flows to calculate the full material requirements of all countries covering a period of two decades. Called the “material footprint,” this indicator provides...
Tagged under: Economics | Consumption | Sustainability
Guest view: Extinction Rebellion, finance’s friend
2020-01-24 (or before) in BreakingviewsThe radical UK climate movement may sound like the corporate sector’s last idea of a kindred spirit. But spokesperson Rupert Read argues its focus on fast, deep carbon reductions are simple common sense, for financiers too. That’s why he is in Davos this week.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability | Finance
Nigel Topping appointed UK High Level Climate Action Champion - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2020-01-23 by in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 20215 minute read
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'I am still not used to this': Greta Thunberg meets Prince Charles | ITV News
2020-01-22 in ITVPrinces Charles spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. | ITV National News
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Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability - EEB - The European Environmental Bureau
2020-01-20 (or before) in EEB - The European Environmental BureauTagged under: Sustainability
Carbon Commentary | Chris Goodall
2020-01-19 (or before) in Carbon Commentary | Chris GoodallA critical appraisal of issues in the move to a low-carbon economy. Chris Goodall is the author of "Sustainability: All That Matters" and "Ten Technologies to Save the Planet".
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GreenBiz
2020-01-10 (or before) in GreenbizGreenBiz advances the opportunities at the intersection of business, technology and sustainability.
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Environment and Sustainability Institute | Working with natural systems for sustainable futures | University of Exeter
2020-01-10 (or before) in University of ExeterTagged under: Sustainability
EU ministers opt to continue overfishing, despite 2020 deadline
2019-12-18 in The GuardianGovernments accused of ‘betrayal’ for setting quotas to miss sustainability targets
Tagged under: Fish | European Union | Wildlife | Sustainability
Sustainability Archieven - Innovation Origins
2019-12-18 (or before) in Innovations Origins - Your Sneak Preview of the FutureTagged under: Sustainability
Europe’s state of the environment 2020: change of direction urgently needed to face climate change challenges, reverse degradation and ensure future prosperity
2019-12-04 (or before) in European Environment AgencyEurope will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest ‘State of the Environment’ report published today states that Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency. The report says, however, there is reason for hope, amid increased public awareness of the need to shift to a sustainable future, technological innovations, growing community initiatives and stepped up EU action lik...
Tagged under: Consumption | Sustainability | Biodiversity Loss | Climate Change | European Union | Europe | Climate Change Impacts | Economics
Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late | Global Comment
2019-11-20 in Global CommentHave climate-change activists got it wrong? This is what Kevin Casey thinks the real problem is
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Activism | Economic Growth | Sustainability
The Road from 2018 to 2035
2019-11-06 (or before) in ArupBy 2035 Arup envisages a world with a much more diverse range of heating sources, with significantly lower emissions, and where all new vehicles are electric. Find out more.
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Climate change: what faith groups can do
2019-10-03 in Bath Quakers - Local meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsChristine Goodgame-Nobes sends an article from Marigold Bentley of the Quaker Committee for Christian & Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), under the heading Quakers, churches and sustainability in Q…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Religion | Sustainability
Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse
2019-09-28 in The GuardianThe man who wrote the book on living off-grid in the city plans to retreat to a rural bolthole, saying eco-friendly progress has not kept pace with the speed of climate collapse
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Drought | Collapse | Electricity Grid | Sustainability
Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability: Climate scientists should admit failure and move on - writes Dr Wolfgang Knorr
2019-09-21 (or before) in Initiative for Leadership and SustainabilityTagged under: Sustainability
Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist
2019-09-07 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth Spreading"I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challenge that was won by people like you and me," says climate activist Luisa Neubauer. With Greta Thunberg, Neubauer helped initiate "Fridays For Future," the momentous international school strike movement that protests the lack of action on the climate crisis. She shares four first steps that anyone, regardless of age, can take to become a climate activist. "This is not a job for a single generation. This is a job for humanity," she says.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Sustainability
Solar PV Power Potential is Greatest Over Croplands - Scientific Reports
2019-08-14 (or before) in NatureSolar energy has the potential to offset a significant fraction of non-renewable electricity demands globally, yet it may occupy extensive areas when deployed at this level. There is growing concern that large renewable energy installations will displace other land uses. Where should future solar power installations be placed to achieve the highest energy production and best use the limited land resource? The premise of this work is that the solar panel efficiency is a function of the location’s microclimate within which it is immersed. Current studies largely ignore many of the environmental factors that influence Photovo...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Land Use | Solar Energy | Electricity | Sustainability
UK needs sustainability act to avert economic collapse, says IPPR
2019-08-01 in The GuardianThinktank says country must focus on building abundance to avoid 2008-style financial crisis
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Fish | Wildlife | Collapse | Sustainability
EU moves to tackle deforestation caused by chocolate and other products
2019-07-25 in The GuardianCampaigners hail scheme to protect and restore forests around the world as ‘pivotal step’ towards ensuring goods remain untainted
Tagged under: Deforestation | European Union | Trees | Sustainability
We Have to Stop Meeting Like This: The Climate Cost of Conferences | The Tyee
2019-07-24 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaA UBC study looked at the carbon cost of conferences and other academic travel. It’s enormous.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Air Travel | Sustainability
Bildung in the 21st Century—Why sustainable prosperity depends upon reimagining education | Essay by Jonathan Rowson
2019-06-19 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityOur understanding of the world is not a spectator sport, but more like an active ingredient in societal renewal, Jonathan Rowson writes in his essay. The premise of this essay is that we need to reconsider Bildung today: to make it about our responsibility for and participation in an evolving process of social maturation that reimagines culture, technology, institutions and policies for the greater good.
Tagged under: Sustainability | Education
Harvard chemist: Permafrost N2O levels 12 times higher than expected
2019-06-06 in Harvard GazetteA recent study shows that nitrous-oxide emissions from thawing Alaskan permafrost are about 12 times higher than previously assumed. About a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost, which is thawing at an increasing rate. And, even though researchers are monitoring carbon dioxide and methane, no one seems to be monitoring N2O, the most potent greenhouse gas.
Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Methane | Alaska | Sustainability
'In a Just World, It Would Be Treated as Crime Against Humanity': New Report Exposes Big Oil's Real Agenda
2019-04-20 (or before) in Common Dreams"InfluenceMap's research confirms a widely held suspicion that Big Oil's glossy sustainability reports and shiny climate statements are all rhetoric and no action."
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Two-Thirds Of The World's Seafood Is Over-Fished -- Here's How You Can Help
2019-03-30 (or before) by in ForbesTagged under: Fish | Sustainability
Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
2019-02-05 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Sustainability
Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
2019-01-27 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Sustainability
Small World Consulting
2018-12-29 (or before) in Small World ConsultingSmall World Consulting exists as a response to the climate and ecological emergency. Leading scope 3 carbon accounting specialists and sustainability strategy consultancy based in the North West of England.
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Sustainability is not Enough: We Need Regenerative Cultures
2018-05-23 in resilienceAiming to design for systemic health may not save us from unexpected side-effects and uncertainty, but it offers a trial and error path towards a regenerative culture.
Tagged under: Health | Sustainability
Prosperity without Growth—Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
2017-04-27 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThe publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates its arguments, outlining the foundations for the economy of tomorrow.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Engaging with oil companies on climate change is futile, admits leading UK environmentalist
2015-01-15 in The GuardianAfter years working on sustainability projects with BP and Shell, Jonathon Porritt says he came to the conclusion it was ‘impossible’ for today’s oil and gas companies to adapt to the need to exit fossil fuels
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | BP | Shell | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Sustainability
Google, GE and others contribute to climate-change deniers in Congress, report finds
2014-09-22 in The GuardianWhat’s behind pro-sustainability companies’ donations to climate-change deniers in Congress?
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change | Legislation | Sustainability
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