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Barbara Grady

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Environment writer. Former senior comms manager at @CeresNews. Former @GreenBiz senior writer and contributor to EDF's @GrowingReturns. Views my own!

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  • 2 weeks ago | trellis.net | Barbara Grady

    Monetizing reforestation and other nature-based carbon removal projects is hampered by the difficulty of verifying outcomes like soil carbon absorption across vast swaths of land and over multiple years. “Accountability is vital for the success of nature-based solutions,” states the. Now, AI’s firepower as a problem solver for a host of business challenges because of its ability to analyze — and act on — large amounts of data is being harnessed to provide an answer.

  • 1 month ago | trellis.net | Barbara Grady

    Ideas differ on what should define “doing business in California.” Many companies would prefer to avoid the new requirements altogether. Emissions and climate risk disclosure will help spur companies to better manage risk. In more than 240 comments on California’s new climate disclosure laws and their implementation, companies, investors, trade groups and others urged regulators to base their requirements on already widely used reporting standards.

  • Feb 13, 2025 | yaleclimateconnections.org | Barbara Grady

    Religious groups around the U.S. are raising alarms and stepping up action as President Donald Trump’s administration has quickly moved to gut environmental regulations and federal programs for reducing climate pollution during his first weeks in office.

  • Jan 10, 2025 | trellis.net | Barbara Grady

    As the inferno in Los Angeles County tragically spread this past week, causing 10 deaths, 9,000 destroyed buildings and 35,000 scorched acres so far, experts also feared it is exacerbating a home insurance crisis gripping California and much of the nation. AccuWeather estimated on Wednesday that total damages will exceed $52 billion, with estimates of insured losses $20 billion. By Friday, AccuWeather increased nearly tripled its total damage estimate, to $150 billion.

  • Nov 10, 2024 | yaleclimateconnections.org | Barbara Grady

    Not long ago, businesses and investors liked to brag about their commitments to reduce their climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Not anymore. Now net zero talk is a political football, with more than a dozen Republican majority state legislatures castigating banks, investment management companies, and businesses that talk about climate change and have goals to reduce their emissions.

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Barbara Grady @barbaragrady
26 Jan 25

RT @Atul_Gawande: I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious dama…

Barbara Grady
Barbara Grady @barbaragrady
5 Jan 25

Biden is giving Trump a strong economy, a low crime rate and a resurgent manufacturing sector. https://t.co/Pch0IjUVbA via @NYTimes

Barbara Grady
Barbara Grady @barbaragrady
8 Dec 24

RT @DemocraticWins: BREAKING: President Biden will become the first President in American history to register job growth in every single mo…