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How Stronger Just Transition Policies Can Enable Business Action
The just transition means moving toward a clean and sustainable economy in a way that’s fair to workers and communities. It ensures that people have access to new jobs, skills, and affordable products and services as society shifts from high-emitting fossil fuel use and production. For businesses, advancing the just transition is not only a social and environmental imperative.
From the Backseat to the Front Row: The Urgent Need for Adaptation | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Advisory Services | BSR
As climate change and nature degradation accelerate in intensity and frequency, building resilience has never been more urgent. Recent heatwaves, wildfires, and floods have caused widespread destruction in many parts of the world—from Greece to India, Portugal, South Africa, and Texas. The northern part of China received a year’s worth of rain in a single week in July. The summer’s torrential rains in the country caused hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in economic losses.
China’s Climate Commitment and its Impact on Scope 3 Targets
Key Points Ongoing global focus on climate-related matters has persistently centered on China's changing dynamics, attracting widespread attention. China's economic rebound post-COVID signals a return to normalcy, with increasing indications of forthcoming actions to address emissions, both politically mandated and voluntarily adopted.
Ten Guiding Principles for Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions
Key Points While business leaders are starting to consider how climate change disproportionately affects people and communities, there are few examples of how the private sector is working with affected stakeholders. Co-creation, in the context of climate justice, centers affected communities in identifying challenges, developing solutions to address systemic injustices and advancing equitable social, and environmental outcomes.
Three Business Initiatives that Advance Climate Justice | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR
Climate justice acknowledges that climate change has disproportionate impacts on communities and exacerbates underlying existing systemic inequities. While climate injustices exist worldwide, they often are more acute in less economically developed countries. While the term may be new, businesses are starting to proactively advance climate justice efforts.
Advancing a Just Transition across Sectors
Key Points From agriculture to manufacturing, transportation to finance, every sector has a role to play in advancing a just transition. While a just transition is relevant for all sectors, the approach is unique to local operating contexts, business models and activities.
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 variant
View ORCID ProfileJamie Lopez Bernal, Nick Andrews, Charlotte Gower, Eileen Gallagher, Ruth Simmons, Simon Thelwall, Julia Stowe, Elise Tessier, Natalie Groves, Gavin Dabrera, Richard Myers, Colin Campbell, Gayatri Amirthalingam, Matt Edmunds, Maria Zambon, Kevin Brown, Susan Hopkins, Meera Chand, Mary Ramsay doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.22.21257658 Abstract Background The B.1.617.2 COVID-19 variant has contributed to the surge in cases in India and has now been detected across the...
What you should know about the EU Taxonomy
The EU Taxonomy is set to be a foundational tool of the European Green Deal and will affect companies well beyond European borders. It is essential for foreign companies and markets that conduct business in the European Union (EU) to be aware of the implications of the Taxonomy.
3 strategies for mitigating climate risk for businesses in Vietnam
This article originally was published in the BSR Insight. All companies with business operations or supply chains in Vietnam need to know that the country is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — and need to be aware of the ways they can build resilience. In October, two mega-typhoons flooded communities, displaced families and took lives in what is becoming an all too familiar pattern.
Citizens' Climate Lobby holding virtual townhall Mon. March 29
Details Written by Dr. Eileen Gallagher Category: Featured Articles Created: 26 March 2021 All faiths, all ages, and people all across the political spectrum are invited to an online Town Hall with Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Monday March 29th from 6-7:30pm. We’ll be continuing discussions about local solutions to our clean air problems here in Utah.
Guest editorial: The ‘virus’ of air pollution is here, and the time to act is now
Eileen Gallagher Snyderville Basin On Wednesday, May 6, you have an opportunity to join your Wasatch Back Citizens’ Climate Lobby as we host Rep. John Curtis, professor Arden Pope of BYU, and Mayors Johnson (Midway), Potter (Heber) and Kourianos (Price). We will be discussing clean air and community stewardship, focusing on local and state communities and how we manage our health at the non-federal level. Rep.
Guest editorial: There is a health care gap in Park City. Thankfully, dedicated Parkites are trying to close it.
Eileen Gallagher, M.D. Park City Park City, Utah. The name evokes snow, sparkling celebrities, gorgeous athletes, outdoorsy locals, forward thinking arts and government. Yet for those of us providing health care in the community, it is a town with a plain old all-American gap in health care. We have great health care for those with great health insurance and we have neighbors who can’t afford health care at all.
Guest editorial: Join the Citizens’ Climate Lobby to make a big difference
Eileen Gallagher Park City December 19, 2018 Eileen Gallagher Park City December 19, 2018 "The choice before us all has never been so stark. Act now with courage and resolve … or, God forbid, ignore the irrefutable evidence, and become the generation that betrayed humanity and our responsibility to future generations." — Frank Bainimarama, prime minister of Fiji, at the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference this month in Katowice, Poland Climate change is here.
How business can manage climate risk in Southeast Asia
The World Economic Forum reports that the leading threats to businesses today are extreme weather events, natural disasters and the failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Businesses and society in Southeast Asia in particular — one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change — face unprecedented climate risks.
Guest editorial: Statehouse candidate says partisanship has damaged our democracy
"One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets.
Building Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia | Reports | BSR
Businesses worldwide are facing climate risks, and companies with operations or supply chains in Southeast Asia are exposed to a range of climate hazards and vulnerabilities that can exacerbate these risks. To prepare for the effects of climate change, businesses in the region need to build resilience. The World Economic Forum reports that the leading threats to businesses today are extreme weather events, natural disasters, and the failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
How Business Can Manage Climate Risk in Southeast Asia
The World Economic Forum reports that the leading threats to businesses today are extreme weather events, natural disasters, and the failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Businesses and society in Southeast Asia in particular—one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change—face unprecedented climate risks. The Asian Development Bank finds it will likely experience larger economic losses than any other area in the world.
How Business Can Manage Climate Risk in Southeast Asia
The World Economic Forum reports that the leading threats to businesses today are extreme weather events, natural disasters, and the failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Businesses and society in Southeast Asia in particular—one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change—face unprecedented climate risks. The Asian Development Bank finds it will likely experience larger economic losses than any other area in the world.
6 actions that businesses can take across the plastics value chain
Over the last few decades, plastic has made life easier for many of us. It is durable and relatively inexpensive, and in many cases, plastic devices such as IV bags and syringes have saved lives. However, the plastic production rate has skyrocketed — half of the plastic ever made has been produced in the past 15 years, and globally, only 9 percent of all plastic has been recycled.
How Business Can Help Build Climate Resilience Today | Blog | BSR
Around the world, we are experiencing record-breaking extreme weather events—from monsoon flooding in South Asia, to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma the United States and Caribbean islands, severe flooding in Nigeria, and Typhoon Hato here in Hong Kong and southern China. The loss of life, displacement, and financial damage are devastating. While seasonal storms are nothing new, climate change is expected to make them more powerful.
Practical Tips for Figuring Out Whom You Should See While You’re Home for Christmas
It was a long weekend, and after three busy months, I was going home to spend time with my parents, siblings, nieces—and friends from childhood, high school, and my first job. The logistics would figure themselves out. I was home, and all those people were at home, so of course I would see them all. Right? As you might have expected, things did not turn out as planned. Frustrated (and exhausted) at the end of the weekend, I realized it was totally unrealistic to see everyone each time I was home.
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