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This webinar will provide updates on related initiatives under development to help companies set targets and track their progress on reducing climate impacts for the land sector (food, agriculture, forestry, etc.). The Greenhouse Gas Protocol team will share updates on their upcoming Land Sector and Removals Guidance on accounting for and reporting greenhouse gas impacts for companies in land sector value chains, including guidance for CO2 removals. The Science Based Targets initiative’s Fore...

Wed, 02/10/2021 - 9:02am -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV) is pleased to announce this year’s VCV Lifetime Achievement Award winner: former State Representative Mary Sullivan of Burlington, Vermont, who retired in 2020. The VCV Lifetime Achievement Award is presented bi-annually to a Vermonter with an impressive legacy of championing policies that further environmental protection in Vermont. “Mary Sullivan has dedicated her whole self—as a legislator, moth...

BlackRock’s Big Problem Responds to Larry Fink’s 2021 Letters BlackRock’s Big Problem Responds to Larry Fink’s 2021 Letters January 26, 2021 BlackRock continues steps in the right direction, but falls short of the visionary leadership needed WASHINGTON- Today, BlackRock released CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter to CEOs as well as a letter to its clients. The letters spelled out the next steps the world’s largest asset man...

Here are Houstons hot zone neighborhoods, based on new study Here are Houstons hot zone neighborhoods, based on new study By ABC13 Staff Some Houston neighborhoods can be 20 degrees hotter on a given day. Sean Pavone/Getty Images At the same time of day in the Houston area, temperatures can vary by nearly 20 degrees among neighborhoods, a new study finds. Researchers with the Houston Advanced Research Center, the city of Houston, Harris County Public Health, and The Nature Conservancy of...

The Port of Seattle, which oversees Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), is buying renewable natural gas (RNG) from U.S. Gain to heat the airport’s terminal and power its bus fleet. The deal is enabling the agency to meet its 2030 carbon emissions reduction target 10 years earlier than anticipated. The goal was to cut scope 1 and scope 2 emissions (related to Port-controlled operations) to reach a 50% reduction by 2030. Port Seattle is aiming for a 100% reduction in emissions, or to be...

Market Design for the Clean Energy Transition: Advancing Long-Term Approaches December 16, 2020 to December 17, 2020 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM WRI partnered with Resources for the Future to co-host a workshop aimed at advancing proposals for organized long-term electricity market designs. Rapid expansion of zero- and low-carbon generating capacity requires effective policy frameworks for both vertically integrated utilities and organized (restructured) electricity markets. A vibrant debate has emerged...

The MSU FCCP receives Tinker Foundation award supporting Peruvian research project on forest conservation incentives December 21, 2020 The Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP) is pleased to announce an award received from the Tinker Foundation. The Michigan State Forest Carbon and Climate Program (MSU FCCP) has been awarded a Tinker Foundation grant to support the project “Good for Forests, Good for People? Enabling Conditions for Scalable Success in Peru’s Conditional Direct Transfers ...

The need to bury the lead. because you now have a president who said hes going to enforce a climate policy visa regulatory means and bodies like the u.n., they want the united states to be a leader on this issue because they feel thats the only way they can pressure other countries like china and india to also somehow get on board. theyre not going to do anything to derail this u.s. movement and this u.s. president to sort of step up and start enforcing some sort of climate program. >> so go ahe...

The need to bury the lead. because youve now got a president who said he is going to enforce a agenda via regulatory means. bodies like the u.n., they want the united states to be a leader on this issue because they feel thats the only way they can pressure other countries like china and india to also somehow get on board. so theyre nothing going to do anything to derail this u.s. movement and this u.s. president to start enforcing some sort of climate program. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say...

Benghazi for security. this is an important day in american history. 9/11 how could we not properly protect the embassy, our consulate there. the state department does not say, we need more money. i believe of all the evidence indicates that its not a matter of money. its a matter of misplaced priorities. on the day before 9/11 secretary clinton was promoting a new program, culinary delaware. there is lot of misplaced priorities. gobble climate program, that doesnt protect a single diplomat abro...