Climate Change

Fighting climate change must mean preserving nature

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting / By / July 1, 2021

‘Nature-based Solutions’ offer a way forward. The twin crises of nature loss and climate change are inextricably linked. For too long, however, biodiversity loss and climate change have been discussed and dealt with in siloes, even by independent international frameworks of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, we may …

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Years of raging Arizona wildfires bring focus onto climate change, drought

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Pollution / By / June 29, 2021

There are two dozen wildfires raging across Arizona that have burned more than 366,000 acres so far, putting this year’s wildfire season on a similar trajectory to the past two years — a trend that experts worry is likely only to get worse as the effects of climate change become more acute. “You can’t put …

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Health risks from heat waves send a climate alarm

1 Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming / By / June 28, 2021

These Americans are fleeing the West because of extreme heat 03:20 “I’m sorry I’m late Dr. Tummala,” a patient tells me at the start of a recent clinic appointment. Smiling with what I hope is a look of understanding, I brush off her apology. I have come to know this patient over many years and am …

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Hunger, drought, disease: UN climate report reveals dire health threats

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Global Warming / By / June 24, 2021

In this file photo taken on April 22, 2016 a child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.   | Photo Credit: AFP Depending on how well humans get a handle on carbon emissions and rising temperatures, a child born today could be confronted with …

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How engineered bacteria could clean up oilsands pollution and mining waste

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Climate Change, Pollution / By / June 23, 2021

Picture Credit: A tailings pond at an oilsands facility near Fort McMurray, Alta., in July 2012. The estimated cost of reclaiming oilsands mines is almost $31 billion. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Rampant industrialization has caused our planet to warm at an unprecedented rate. Glaciers are melting away and sea levels are rising. Droughts last longer and are more devastating. …

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