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EPA Provides Training to Help Communities Prepare for Climate Change
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released an online training module to help local government officials take actions to increase their communities’ resiliency to a changing climate. The virtual training, which was informed by the National Climate Assessment released one year ago today, was developed with advice from ...
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Ceres and World Resources Institute Join Growing Blue
The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global non-profit organization that focuses on the environment and economic development, and Ceres, a non-profit group that mobilizes business and investor leadership on sustainability challenges, have become the newest members of the Growing Blue network. Growing Blue is a data-driven, online resource designed to help local communities and businesses ...
By Ceres
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GISR Takes Major Step Towards Establishing a Standard of Excellence for Corporate Sustainability Ratings
The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) today announced the Beta Version of a set of core Principles as part of an international effort to drive excellence in corporate sustainability ratings, rankings and indices. Launched in June 2011 by Ceres and Tellus Institute, GISR is a global non-profit initiative aimed at moving markets to the advantage of corporate sustainability ...
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Janez Potočnik`s (European Commissioner for the Environment) Speech from Panel discussion: Europe and the Reshaped Global Order - Bled Strategic Forum (Slovenia)
Ladies and gentlemen, It goes without saying that it is really an honour to participate in such an important event as the Bled Strategic Forum. But it is not only an honour; it is also a pleasure, in particular since we are here in my own country, Slovenia, and even in my own region. So, I would first like to thank the organisers for their invitation and their welcome. On 7th June this year, a ...
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Ceres President Mindy Lubber Statement on EPA`s mercury and air toxics rule
In response to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement today of its final Mercury and Air Toxics Rule for Power Plants, the following statement was issued by Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres and director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 100 institutional investors across North America managing more than $10 trillion in assets: “We applaud the ...
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Ceres Aqua Gauge: New Tool for Companies, Investors to Manage Risks of Worldwide Water Supply Pressures
Against a backdrop of increasing business exposure to global water supply threats, Ceres today released a new tool for evaluating those risks – and opportunities – that both investors and companies can use as a roadmap to enhanced water stewardship. "Water risks are urgent today and, given population and climate trends, can only grow increasingly more so," said Ceres president Mindy ...
By Ceres
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New report outlines what companies should be disclosing on climate change risks and opportunities
Amid growing evidence that climate change is impacting the global environment and the global economy, the Ceres investor coalition today announced a new report aimed at improving corporate disclosure of climate-related risks and opportunities they face. The Ceres report, developed with input from its 90-plus member Investor Network on Climate Risk, outlines generally weak climate disclosure to ...
By 3BL Media
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Climate chaos inflicting growing costs on US
According to the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, climate change is already having a direct and negative effect on the American people, impacting “water, energy, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, and health” all across the nation. The report was issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (GCRP) as the result of research initiated during the Bush ...
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