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At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure. Brent Mitchell, managing director US State & Local and Canada Public Sector, and Franco Amalfi, strategic business executive, Climate Action, Google Cloud, explain in their collaborative blog post: With these… Source link

Award recognizes winners for exemplifying the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. SAN FRANCISCO –News Direct– CEF SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ – CCEF presented the 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award to two co-winners, Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate, recognizing their groundbreaking efforts to catalyze a market for carbon removal solutions. The awards were announced in connection with the 2022 CEF… Source link

The world must dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to avert the worst effects of climate change, according to an urgent report from the United Nations released this week. Among its recommendations, the report calls for improvements in agriculture and land use that would “help us adapt to climate change, and secure livelihoods, food and water.” The mention of water preservation acknowledges the dual threat that climate change poses for worldwide clean water access: it worsens the… Source link

Ford (F) is taking an unusual approach to battle the ongoing semiconductor crunch afflicting global automakers — doing without them, for the time being. “We are working as hard as we can and offering ways for our customers to get their vehicles sooner during the global semiconductor shortage … Beginning soon, we will offer customers a way to get their Explorer more quickly, too, thanks to a specification change that will keep rear seat heating/air conditioning auxiliary controls up… Source link

Aspirational visions of the metaverse peppered discussion at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where companies showed off products like a $270 body-tracking suit and an accessory that mimics heat and cold. The conference demonstrates the rush of industry momentum behind the metaverse, an immersive online experience across tech platforms that has become a key focus of Facebook (FB), renamed Meta in October. By now, all the tech giants are investing in the metaverse, Axios… Source link

When Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced on Fox News on Sunday that he won’t vote for the current version of Build Back Better, experts predicted he may have single-handedly killed the world’s best hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change. In order to avoid breaching the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold that will trigger a cascade of devastating effects, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change must… Source link

Ahead of last month’s United Nations global climate summit, Google, the world’s biggest provider of ads online, made a big announcement: It would stop placing ads on sites that deny the scientific consensus on climate change. Banned from profiting from its advertising program, Google said, were sites and videos falsely referring to global warming as a hoax or a scam. Also no longer welcome to run Google ads: Content falsely claiming that greenhouse gas emissions, or human activity, do not… Source link

Google has struggled to uphold its recent pledge to stop running ads on content that promotes climate change denial, according to a new report from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The new research identified 50 articles that include lies about climate change and that still featured Google ads after the date that Google said they would be banned. Google announced a new policy in October that prohibits “ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts… Source link

GLASGOW, Scotland — When the House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night, it took the largest congressional action to confront climate change in U.S. history. The bill contains $150 billion for clean energy advancement and adaptation to the effects of climate change, surpassing the 2009 economic stimulus package, which spent $90 billion on clean energy development and deployment. The new package also includes $73 billion for modernizing the U.S…. Source link

A group of financial firms at the COP26 climate summit on Wednesday pledged $130 trillion to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable global economy — the latest in a string of commitments made by business officials in recent days. But hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer says the private sector must also reckon with the role capitalism has played in pushing the world to the “brink of climate disaster” in the first place.  A different, mission-oriented version of capitalism can drive… Source link