By Tom Idle, Sustainable Brands Phasing out animal agriculture over the next 15 years could reduce GHGs 68% by the year 2100. Yet, ongoing lobbying and subsidies in the US and EU are not giving alternatives the chance to fully compete. If you’re in the market to solve the climate …
Alberta Led the Nation in Wind and Solar Growth, so Why is it Calling for a Moratorium?
By Mitchell Beer and Rob Drinkwater, Corporate Knights While Alberta renewable energy producers warn of billions in lost investments, and a veteran oil and gas writer suggests “political intrigue” behind the decision, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has come up with a novel way to blame Ottawa after her government slapped …
At Long Last, There’s a Metric for Quantifying the Monetary Value of Sustainability Investments
By Tom Idle, Sustainable Brands Astanor Ventures’ Impact Multiple on Investment methodology translates the expected and realized benefits of invested-in products or services into monetary terms — helping investors make more informed, strategic decisions. Anybody working in sustainability is only too aware how crucial impact measurement is to maintaining performance. …
New Research Confirms Land-Sea Relationship is Major Driver of Coral Reef Health Outcomes
By Katelyn Reinhart, Arizona State University Researchers tracked coral reef health in Hawaii for 20 years Climate change has long been considered as one of the greatest drivers of declining coral reefs, but the specifics of human impact have been largely unverified. In a new paper, researchers tracked coral reef …
Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Project Could Produce Power This Year
By Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American Construction has begun on the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts. It could provide enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes per year. A view of stacked GE Haliade-X turbine blades at the New Bedford Marine Terminal, to be used on the Vineyard …
Judge Sides with Young Activists in First-of-its-Kind Climate Change Trial in Montana
By The Associated Press, NPR Lead plaintiff Rikki Held listens to testimony during a hearing in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse on, June 20, 2023, in Helena, Mont. HELENA, Mont. — A Montana judge on Monday sided with young environmental activists …
New National Monument Comes After More than a Decade of Advocacy by Native Nations
By Ryan Heinsius, NPR A portion of Grand Canyon National Park and the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument The new national monument in Arizona that President Biden is announcing today is primarily aimed at protecting Native American sacred sites on …
App-based Tool Quantifies Pesticide Toxicity in Watersheds, Identifies Mitigation Opportunities
By Phys.Org Watershed applied toxicity. The heat map and legend values represent applied toxicity as the Net Toxicity Index (NTI), the total applied toxicity of pesticide applications to all aquatic taxa investigated over the simulation period, fish, invertebrates, nonvascular aquatic plants, and vascular aquatic plants. Results are displayed for each …
Energy Industry Uses Whale Activists to Aid Anti-Wind Farm Strategy, Experts Say
By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, The Guardian Unwitting whale advocates and rightwing thinktanks create the impression that offshore wind energy projects endanger cetaceans. One night in late March, J Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies at Brown University, stepped in to a high school gymnasium in a small seaside town …
EU Confirms Watering Down of Corporate Sustainability Disclosures
By Huw Jones, Reuters LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive body on Monday published final rules for corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures, confirming earlier moves to water down the requirements. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had pledged to cut red tape across the …