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The Prince of Wales recently launched a 10-point pandemic recovery charter that challenges businesses to “put nature, people and the planet at the heart of global value creation” over the next decade. This up to date move is backed by scores of major corporates high profile names such as Unilever, BP and BlackRock. The Terra Carta is…

Who exactly is President-elect Biden’s Environmental Team? President-elect Joe Biden finally announced the key members of his environmental team on December 19th. He made a declaration that his administration will connect the effort to reduce planet-warming emissions by restoring the economy and creating jobs.  The climate team will be “ready on day one, which is essential…

Biden has vowed to make the issue of climate change a top priority in an agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies. Biden says he will re-join the Paris Climate Agreement immediately upon taking office and “put America back in the business of leading the world on climate change.” Alongside the Paris Climate Agreement, Biden will convene a climate summit…

What’s in Canada’s climate plan With the United States back on track with climate change planning and Canada’s recently released plan, North America is set to act boldly on climate change issues.  Canada’s climate plan released in mid-December 2021 offers a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change, carbon pollution, carbon pricing, climate change resilience, clean…

What could Biden’s ‘Climate Cabinet’ realistically accomplish? Biden’s Cabinet will be not only tackling climate change, but working to change and undo the damage done with agencies in disarray, rolled back environmental protections, suppressed climate science, loss of expertise due to attrition and firings to name a few of the obstacles to address. Climate change…

The ocean absorbs about 30% of human-generated CO2 emissions.
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