Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Recommendations from the FSB Task Force calls on companies to disclose the effect of climate change on business strategy as well as describing boards’ oversight of climate risk. The task force charged with defining new corporate disclosures related to climate change has released...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Academics insist business leaders need to take the Paris climate change agreement seriously or increase the risks to their business models. Businesses that fail to understand that policy makers were serious about cuts to carbon usage at the Paris COP 21 meeting...
Republished from linkedin.com By Janet Napolitano The science is indisputable: Our climate is changing, the planet is warming and sea levels are rising. Weather patterns are shifting, at times exacting a punishing toll on communities. More and more, taxpayers are footing the bill for the havoc wreaked...
Republished from bloomberg.com By Jess Shankleman Efforts to slow climate change won’t just keep the planet habitable. They will also boost the world economy by $19 trillion. Investments in renewable power and energy efficiency will add about 0.8 percent to global gross domestic product by 2050, the International Renewable...
Republished from thewashingtonpost.com By Philip Bump Many of the estimates of the long-term effects of climate change focus on outcomes that will be obvious by the year 2100. Climate change isn’t weather change, and the slow warming of the Earth is best measured by changes over decades,...
Republished from finance.yahoo.com By Eric Roston Seventeen conservative Republican members of Congress—10 of them in their first or second terms—are bucking long-time party positions and the new occupant of the White House. They announced on Wednesday that they’re supporting a clear statement about the risks associated with...
Republished from nytimes.com By Jessica Benko Climate change is not equally felt across the globe, and neither are its longer term consequences. This map overlays human turmoil — represented here by United Nations data on nearly 64 million “persons of concern,” whose numbers have tripled since 2005...
Republished from nytimes.com By John Mooallem A few years ago, a locally famous blogger in San Francisco, known as Burrito Justice, created an exquisitely disorienting map, with help from a cartographer named Brian Stokle, and started selling copies of it online. The map imagined the city in...
Republished from theguardian.com By Esuna Dugarova and Nergis Gülasan We are approaching two years into implementing the ambitious 2030 Agenda – a historic agreement to end poverty, combat inequalities, promote peaceful and inclusive societies, and protect the environment. The new global framework, with 17 sustainable development goals...
Republished from huffingtonpost.com By Alexander C. Kaufman and Kate Sheppard President Donald Trump may pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change as early as next week, sources with knowledge of the plans told HuffPost on Tuesday. The historic agreement between 195 countries to cut...