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Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac are best known for their work together at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. Together, they negotiated the historic Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, which was signed by 195 countries. They both played important roles in the negotiations, with Figueres starting to build toward that goal after she assumed […]
This is an excerpt from “The Circular Economy Handbook: Realizing the Circular Advantage” by Peter Lacy, Jessica Long and Wesley Spindler. It is reprinted here with permission from Accenture Strategy. What’s driving the industry shift to circularity? The types and volume of industry-level circular activity vary widely. In general, consumer-facing industries have seen the largest […]
Excerpted from “Food Fix,” copyright 2019 by Mark Hyman M.D. Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York. All rights reserved. In a room full of cowboy hats, Regi Haslett-Marroquin cuts a contrasting figure. As the native Guatemalan takes the stage to address the hundreds of farmers and ranchers who have gathered in Albuquerque, New […]
This is an excerpt from “Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry” by Leah Garcés. Copyright Leah Garcés, 2019. It is published here with permission from BLOOMSBURY SIGMA, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. At the other end of the investment spectrum from Liz [Dee] and Nick [Garin] is Coller Capital, founded in 1990 by […]
The following is an excerpt from “The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress” by Mark Jaccard (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Reprinted here with permission from the publisher. Deep decarbonization is a global collective action problem. Over the next decades, we need wealthier countries to rapidly decarbonize and developing countries to slow and then […]
This is an excerpt from “Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning: A Guide to Meaningful Engagement” by Margaret O’Gorman. Published by Island Press. The science is settled. Climate change is real. — from Exelon’s Corporate Sustainability Strategy It’s simple. Industrial processes have caused the planet’s climate to change, impacting nature in many different and complex ways. A […]
This is an excerpt from “Rainforest: Dispatches From Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines” by Tony Juniper. Copyright 2019 by Tony Juniper. Reproduced here with permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Conservation of the rainforests is far more likely to succeed when smallholders are empowered to do sustainable farming. The large-scale loss of tropical rainforest can have […]
This is an excerpt from “Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement” by Michael Méndez. Copyright 2020 Michael Méndez. Reproduced with permission from Yale University Press. It was released Jan. 7. Motivated by their success in creating a more equitable Oakland climate action plan, the Ella Baker Center for Human […]
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