Archive for the ‘environmental’ category: Page 9
Dec 23, 2017
In Human Time | The Climate Museum
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, media & arts
“In Human Time, the first exhibition of the Climate Museum, explores intersections of polar ice, humanity, and time through installations of work by Zaria Forman and Peggy Weil.”
Dec 4, 2017
Companies with strong ESG credentials make better investments — By Aliya Ram | Financial Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, finance, governance
“ “What we can say now is that the impact [of ESG issues] on risk, volatility and valuation is clearly statistically significant.” ”
Nov 20, 2017
Christiana Figueres Europe Regional Round Table—United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, finance, governance, innovation, policy, sustainability
“Former Executive Secretary to UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres has laid down a challenge to UNEP FI’s banking members, and the wider finance industry to increase their allocations to low carbon investments to avoid a 2 degrees scenario. Watch her recording which she made for participants at UNEP FI’s Europe Regional Roundtable on Sustainable Finance which took place in October 2017.”
Nov 20, 2017
Al Gore — Fiduciary Duty in the 21st century—Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, economics, environmental, finance, governance, sustainability
“Former Vice President and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, Al Gore, introduces PRI, UNEP FI and The Generation Foundation’s Fiduciary duty in the 21st century programme. The project finds that, far from being a barrier, there are positive duties to integrate environmental, social and governance factors in investment processes.”
Nov 20, 2017
Fifty years since the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1968 — 2018): UNISPACE+50 — United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental, governance, government, law, policy, science, space, space travel, treaties
“UNISPACE+50 will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. It will also be an opportunity for the international community to gather and consider the future course of global space cooperation for the benefit of humankind.
From 20 to 21 June 2018 the international community will gather in Vienna for UNISPACE+50, a special segment of the 61 st session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).”
Nov 18, 2017
Transforming Education through Imagination — even for Tech Execs
Posted by Jennifer Gidley in categories: architecture, education, environmental, human trajectories
Why do Silicon Valley technology executives send their children to an almost tech-free school? Several authors have explored this question, including New York University professor Adam Alter. In his book “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked” Alter explores the case of a San Francisco Steiner-Waldorf school where 75% of students are the children of Silicon Valley tech execs. How ironic.
In this piece I propose some additional reasons why imaginative education is becoming an approach of choice for parents wanting their children to become innovative, ecologically aware and even, as Whitehead suggests, to develop genius.
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Oct 31, 2017
The carbon catchers of Climeworks
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: climatology, engineering, environmental, solar power, space, sustainability
I was thinking about this thing, and the one in Iceland. Maybe we could build giant blimps in the atmosphere of Venus, it would carry that machine on its belly, and on the back of the blimp super advanced solar panels. Then inside of the blimp the CO2 could be mixed into liquid crystals or something like that and be dropped like rain down on the surface, to eventually terraform it.
Global Engineering — a phrase that describes steadying the world’s climate with technical solutions. A Swiss company has received EU funding to develop a machine that captures CO2. Can it really make a difference?
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Oct 23, 2017
Sucking CO2 from the atmosphere could save the planet — but it isn’t cheap
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, climatology, environmental, geoengineering, space, sustainability
Should definitely be worked on. Eventually the same stuff could be used to reverse engineer/terraform Venus.
When politicians talk about the Paris Climate Agreement, it’s usually framed in terms of restrictions on emissions for states and businesses. But the Paris Agreement wasn’t just an agreement to regulate — it was also an agreement to innovate. That’s because most experts agree that the world won’t be able to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, unless there’s a way to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
A Swiss startup called Climeworks has made that their goal, developing the most advanced carbon-capture technology to date. VICE News went to Switzerland to see how the technology works and hear how the business plans to tackle climate change. Problem is, what Climeworks is doing isn’t cheap.
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