By Richard Luscombe, The Guardian Funds will be targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska. Joe Biden marked Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7bn investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long …
Lessons on how (and how not) to build a bike-friendly city
By Alex Robinson, Corporate Knights Cycling advocates in Washington, D.C. and Montreal have worked toward the same goal, but with starkly different results. The car has long reigned supreme in North American cities. As car ownership took off in the 1950s, urban planners and engineers designed streets and roads around …
EU lawmakers back human rights, environmental checks for big companies
By Huw Jones, Reuters LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed rules requiring thousands of large companies to identify and mitigate human rights abuses like child labour or slavery, and environmental damage by suppliers. The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted to approve the draft EU …
Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse
By Donna Ferguson, The Guardian Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives. An underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of “coral IVF” and recordings of fish noises could offer a “beacon of hope” to scientists who fear the …
Science-Based Climate Targets Key to Sustainable Tourism
By Joanna Haugen, Sustainable Brands Regardless of whether a travel-related company has submitted its commitments to SBTi; setting specific, quantifiable, time-bound goals is essential for meaningfully reducing climate-changing emissions. British mathematician Lord Kelvin is credited with saying that if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. Business management consultant Peter Drucker later offered …
Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds
By Tom Perkins, The Guardian Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines. Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along …
We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know
By Catherine Roberts and Aliya Uteuova, The Guardian When it comes to healthy eating, fruits and vegetables reign supreme. But along with all their vitamins, minerals and other nutrients can come something else: an unhealthy dose of dangerous pesticides. Though using chemicals to control bugs, fungi and weeds helps farmers …
Will alternative seafood sink or swim?
By Alex Robinson, Corporate Knights Canadian faux fish and seafood startups are hoping to serve ocean-friendly food for a growing planet. When Chris Bryson sees a problem, he has a lot of trouble looking away. In the early days of the pandemic, when pet adoptions were on the rise, he …
Events Are Driving Transparency, Awareness with Climate-Labeled Food Menus
By Christina Lampert, Sustainable Brands Using climate-impact labels is one way events can persuade attendees to choose more sustainable menu options. Event organizers globally are recognizing the need to evolve standard event practices into more sustainable versions. With the many routes trade shows and conferences can use to reduce their environmental …
NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event
NOAA This three-panel image shows a boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023), to recovered (March 2024), following extreme marine heat stress throughout the Caribbean basin in 2023. (Image credit: NOAA) The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching …