By Katie Secrist, Sustainable Brands Like many recent rulings coming out of the EU, the CSRD is designed to drive the rest of the global economy — including around 3,000 US companies — towards meaningful action and ESG disclosure. Big changes are coming to corporate sustainability reporting in the European Union and …
Microplastics Found in Clouds Could Affect Weather and Global Temperatures
By Aliya Uteuova, The Guardian Scientists in eastern China find 24 out of 28 water samples have plastic particles commonly seen in synthetic fibers and packaging. Air, water, soil, food and even blood – microplastics have found their way virtually everywhere on Earth, and now that list includes clouds. Bits of plastic …
Texas Sees ‘Bonanza’ in Carbon Storage Market
By Elliot Woods, Capital and Main Critics say Railroad Commission and politicians focus on business, not environmental protection. With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act last year, Congress and the administration of President Joe Biden made a colossal bet on nascent massive-scale technological …
The Surprising Reason Sea Creatures Are Getting Hungrier
By Matt Simon, Wired As ocean temperatures climb, so do animals’ metabolisms. If extra food isn’t available, they’ll starve. Boom and bust don’t hit much harder than in the Bering Sea. After reaching historically high numbers, the population of snow crabs there cratered by 90 percent following a heat wave in 2018 and 2019. Some …
The AI Revolution is Reshaping ESG Jobs
By Shilpa Tiwari, Corporate Knights The ESG landscape is on the brink of transformation. With AI taking over repetitive tasks, sustainability pros are being freed up to think big. ESG and AI. These ubiquitous acronyms are garnering significant media attention, and with good reason. According to the latest Future of …
AI Summit a Start but Global Agreement a Distant Hope
By Martin Coulter and Paul Sandle, Reuters LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a long way off. Over two days of talks …
Giving City Dwellers Access to Nature is Key Aim, says National Trust
By Helena Horton, The Guardian A National Trust gardener at work at the ‘sky park’ at Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester. Photograph: Annapurna Mellor/National Trust Images Charity to bring its gardens to urban areas to allow nature-deprived communities access to green spaces. Bringing glorious gardens and green space to nature-deprived people in cities is …
Lessons from the ‘White Gold’ Rush in Latin America’s Lithium Triangle
By Natalie Alcoba, Corporate Knights Can three countries in the most lithium-rich place on Earth use the green revolution to break free from the extractive patterns of the past that leave little behind? It is quiet and lonely on the mountainous range of Argentina’s Catamarca Province, where llama-like vicuña graze …
Student Demand for Low-Impact Meals Increases After Climate-Labeled College Menus
Sustainable Brands Results from first year of Chartwells Higher Education’s exclusive partnership with HowGood show positive correlations between climate labels on menus and sustainable choices. Last year, millions of US students started seeing the social and environmental impacts of the food they ate through an exclusive climate labeling partnership between Chartwells Higher Education — …
They Went Hunting for Fossil Fuels. What they Found Could Help Save the World
By Laura Paddison, CNN When two scientists went looking for fossil fuels beneath the ground of northeastern France, they did not expect to discover something which could supercharge the effort to tackle the climate crisis. Jacques Pironon and Phillipe De Donato, both directors of research at France’s National Centre of Scientific Research, …