As the climate crisis ramps up, more young people are considering the ethics of whether to have children, and if so, how many. Some worry about how children could damage the planet; others about how the planet could damage children. For Heather Houser, who studies the intersection of climate and reproduction, the question “Is it […]
Read & Discuss »S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading independent provider of information, analysis, data and benchmark prices for commodities, energy and energy transition markets, launched a new first-of-type suite of carbon intensity measures and associated carbon-accounted price assessments for eight key North America natural gas locations. Kevin Birn, Global Head of Center of Emissions Excellence, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: “We’re […]
Read & Discuss »Nine Harvard College students will enroll at the University of Oxford next year as recipients of the American Rhodes Scholarship. A 10th student will join them as a recipient of the International Rhodes prize The scholars and their areas of study: Aishani Aatresh, from Saratoga, California, worked with emergency response in the New York City […]
Read & Discuss »Steven Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said the country is barreling toward a “tremendously troubling” new record this year for mass shootings after the rampage last week by a gunman in Lewiston, Maine, that left 18 dead and more than a dozen wounded. So far in 2023 there […]
Read & Discuss »Increasing workplace flexibility may lower employees’ risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Penn State University. In workplaces that implemented interventions designed to reduce conflict between employees’ work and their personal/family lives, researchers observed that employees at higher baseline cardiometabolic risk, particularly older […]
Read & Discuss »Research by Phoenix Group and Make My Money Matter shows that, with the right reforms, the UK Pensions Industry could invest up to £1.2 trillion in climate solutions This is half the gross capital investment required to deliver the Balanced Pathway by 2035 and it is quadruple the £0.3 trillion that the industry is on […]
Read & Discuss »U.S. institutional investors are increasingly looking to private assets opportunities to invest sustainably, according to global asset manager Schroders, which released the U.S. findings of its Institutional Investor Study. The annual study, which spans 200 North American institutional investors, (26% of our total 770 global respondents) including 117 in the U.S. representing over $7 trillion […]
Read & Discuss »The year of new ESG frameworks and standards continues, and I am beginning to wonder if the ‘alphabet soup’ is re-thickening. This week, The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) released its Transition Disclosure Framework. The framework aims to be the ‘gold standard’ for companies to report their climate transition plans. With more companies than ever setting […]
Read & Discuss »Norway’s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has tightened its climate risk demands on companies it invests in. The fund, which pools the Norwegian state’s revenues from oil and gas production, now requires companies to move from target setting to transition planning. “With the effects of climate change becoming more evident, we really […]
Read & Discuss »Global biotechnology leader CSL (ASX: CSL) (USOTC: CSLLY) announced that Jeffrey Ball, an established global leader across multiple disciplines and functions, has been appointed Chief Sustainability Officer effective immediately. Mr Ball is the first Chief Sustainability Officer of the Australia-based biotech company, which announced its updated Sustainability Strategy in August 2021 to advance its commitment to a healthier world. […]
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