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1 week ago |
corporateknights.com | Adria Vasil
In the days following Donald Trump’s fateful ballot box victory in November, environmental advocates the world over stumbled around shellshocked, feeling the ear-splitting pressure change of a bomb dropped on climate progress months before they’d ever see the fallout. As grief and fear spilled onto social media feeds, one climate leader held space for hope. “There is an antidote to doom and despair,” the architect of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change posted.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
corporateknights.com | Adria Vasil |Natalie Alcoba
Atmospheric rivers flooding a hometown. A pile of glass bottles thrown in the trash at a house party. A grandfather and his tender attention to gardening. This year’s crop of young sustainability leaders draws inspiration from a kaleidoscope of sources, which all ultimately point in one direction. We are stronger and more capable in community, building networks and seeding ideas that can make a difference at this critical juncture of planetary survival.
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Oct 9, 2024 |
corporateknights.com | Adria Vasil
It’s the middle of August and around the world, trees are burning. In Jasper National Park, nearly 320 square kilometres of forest has been left charred and smouldering. In Greece, 25-metre flames rip through the remaining pine forests of Attica not far from Athens. All the while in Brazil, 13 million acres of the Amazon have gone up in flames, fuelled by a historic drought.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
corporateknights.com | Adria Vasil |Jessica Scott-Reid
A convoy of tractors was making its way to a Dutch government building in February when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out his support for farmers revolting against the EU’s regulatory push to drive down climate emissions: “I’m pro-environment, but I support the farmers! Farming has no material effect on climate change.”The online reaction was swift, with stats, charts, links and memes filling replies from all sides.
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Nov 8, 2023 |
corporateknights.com | Adria Vasil |Natalie Alcoba
Rita Steele had planned a West Coast summer road trip as a respite from the demands of her sustainability work at Simon Fraser University. The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. “Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says. While driving through Oregon, Steele was engulfed in a blanket of wildfire smoke, unable to see 10 feet ahead.
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