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What Financial Risk Management Has To Do With Climate Change – And The Price Of Inaction (Forbes)
Jul 10FORBES | When we talk about the long-term risks of climate change, it’s hard for the American public, for company executives, and for lawmakers alike to accurately picture what the implications of climate inaction will mean ten, twenty, or fifty years from now. We hear stories of worst-case scenarios, but sometimes it sounds more like…
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How A Changing Climate Is A Threat To The Stability Of Our Federal Budget (Forbes)
Jun 14FORBES | According to recent data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA, 2022 tied as the fifth warmest year on record. Why does this matter? Well, a warming climate directly affects the health of you as an individual – and your family, communities, businesses, and our overall economy. We are seeing…
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It’s World Ocean Day: Here’s Why Life Depends On Our Oceans (Forbes)
Jun 8FORBES | June is the month when the global community honors the crucial services the ocean provides. From World Ocean Day (June 8 this year) to the United Nations Ocean Conference (June 27-July 1), we celebrate that the ocean sustains all life on the planet and call attention to the threats to its future. Many don’t…
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How Ecuador Serves As A Solutions Incubator To Restore The Planet’s Water Health: The Nature Conservancy Model For The World (Forbes)
May 31FORBES | Clean and accessible water is essential to life, and closely linked to economic vitality. As the World Health Organization explains, “Improved water supply and sanitation, and better management of water resources, can boost countries’ economic growth and can contribute greatly to poverty reduction.” Yet water insecurity affects one in four people globally, with an…
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On Earth Day 2023, here’s how we can think globally and act locally | Opinion (The Tennessean)
Apr 22THE TENNESSEAN | More people than ever are coming together around a unified cause — the health of our planet, which is inextricably connected to the health and well-being of our people. While not created for Earth Day, the slogan “think globally, act locally” rings true this month as we are reminded to consider the…
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In a Divided Congress, Four Opportunities for Cooperation on Nature (Nature.org)
Feb 7NATURE.ORG | December closed one of the most productive U.S. federal legislative sessions for nature ever. By the time the 117th U.S. Congress gaveled out, it had advanced the country’s largest investment in climate action; a massive bipartisan infrastructure package that heavily invests in nature, clean energy, and climate resilience; and a host of bills related to water infrastructure,…
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Healthcare Paradox: How The Industry Designed To Keep Us Well Is Also Making Our Planet – And Our Bodies – Sick (Forbes)
Jan 30FORBES | Healthcare systems undertake a fundamental and challenging mission: keeping us healthy. But true health and wellbeing extends beyond hospital walls and examination rooms. Our bodies and minds, after all, can only be as healthy as the environments that nourish them. It should go without saying then that what is bad for our environment…
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Nature And People Positive Solutions: The Nature Conservancy In Belize (Forbes)
Jun 9FORBES | The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has a storied history of local, regional, and global environmental protection and conservation efforts centered on sound principles and comprehensive solutions. Since 1951, TNC has used a collaborative approach that engages communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners to combat some of our world’s toughest challenges like climate…
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Your health (and you thought climate change was not about you) (The Hill)
Jan 19THE HILL | New Year’s resolutions: chances are we’ve made — and broken — a few of them. And, chances are many of those resolutions have been related to our health: exercise more, eat better, stop smoking. But what if, in 2022, we resolved to improve our health by taking action against climate change? According…
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