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Study suggests that global warming can be kept to 1.5°C, but only if 17 of the biggest emitters step up

The researchers propose a new metric called "additional carbon accountability" to measure just how …

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World No-Tobacco Day: As the menace of cigarette butt pollution continues, Lee Cooper weaves jeans out of them

Each pair of these eco-jeans cleans up approximately 600 cigarette butts! The jeans have passed all…

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Did we overestimate the benefits of planting trees to fight climate change? A new study says yes

While planting trees certainly helps, there are a ton of usually uncounted things that prevent it f…

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The Earth's 'blood pressure' is too high, and we are inching closer to a heart attack: new report warns

A new report card has shown that we have breached six of nine planetary boundaries, putting enormou…

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Meet the ex-Tesla staffer cycling across the world to encourage people to embrace low-carbon slow travel

Benjamin Parent plans to set off on a three-year cycling trip around the world starting in France i…

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OPINION: Is climate finance a pipedream or a reality?

Low-income and developing countries bear the brunt of climate change even though they are the least…

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COP27 attendees criticised for hypocrisy after Egypt receives 400 private jets

According to estimations by BBC, if each of these private jets carried 15 people, each person would…

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Elon Musk's private jet emitted 132 times as much carbon as the average American does in an entire year

Elon Musk flies private every two days on average. His carbon footprint from just that activity dwa…

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India needs to invest $12.1 trillion to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050: McKinsey

India will need to invest an estimated $12.1 trillion by 2050 to achieve carbon neutrality, say…

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OPINION: Time to scale-up nature-based solutions to forge a low-carbon and climate-resilient future for India

A report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (I…

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Lok Sabha approves Energy Conservation Bill to accelerate climate action; opens multi-billion dollar carbon market

The legislature may help tap the $800-billion global carbon market and facilitate more foreign dire…

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Towards a Greener Footprint: Prioritising Carbon-Neutrality Makes Good Businesses Sense! Are Indian Firms Making the Transition?

According to international scientific consensus, global net human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emiss…

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India demands environment-friendly technology to be made available at affordable prices to battle climate change

India is on track to meet its contributions to the Paris Agreement as one of the 195 signatories wh…

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This CEO is making climate-solution tools more accessible with an app that tracks and personalizes your carbon footprint

Sanchali Pal wanted to simplify climate-accountability measures. So she founded Joro, an app that a…

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How the Brewers Association is helping independent breweries reduce their carbon footprint and cut costs

With the assistance of the BA, Horse & Dragon Brewing Company has reduced its water usage by 36.46%…

Lisa Rabasca Roepe   


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Principles of governance: How companies — and their boards — hold themselves accountable for their promises

Governance, the G in ESG, reflects a company's accountability — the strategies they set to meet sus…

Lily Katzman,Megan DeMatteo   


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Oil dependency and carbon emissions — EVs may not be India’s answer to reducing either, say experts

The Indian government has been giving a big boost to electric vehicles (EVs) as a part of its ambit…

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Here's how to track the latest location of Elon Musk's private jet, after Twitter banned the @ElonJet account of a student who tracked the aircraft

Elon Musk this week suspended Twitter accounts using publicly available flight data showing cities …

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An alliance of major investors overseeing $2.4 trillion has committed to making portfolios entirely carbon-neutral by 2050

Companies have become more involved in fighting climate change, and a slew of them announced or rei…

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Etsy's CTO explains how the craft marketplace is using big data and the cloud to unlock hundreds of millions in additional sales

We also feel there's a completely other side to all of our lives for special and unique things, and…

Dennis Green