decarbonization
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Climate Finance Has Failed Africa Twice Over. Here’s How To Fix It.
Credit-rating methodologies must stop treating poverty as a self-fulfilling proxy for default risk.
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Questioning Mayor Adams’ Commitment to Protecting NYC’s Environment
Mayor Adams is a superb advocate for environmental quality and environmental justice, but the city government he runs doesn’t always seem to follow through: New York City’s water infrastructure, decarbonization, and parks need additional staffing and funding if the promises made are to be fulfilled.
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Decarbonization and the Changing Organizational Culture of Business
ESG principles must be approached strategically and integrated into other elements of organizational performance, such as strategy, finance, marketing, talent acquisition, and performance measurement.
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Opinion: For Solar Power to Go Global, We Must Consider Relaxing Intellectual Property Rights
Developing countries are being left behind in the solar power revolution. To achieve global decarbonization, we need to revise the rules of global trade.
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EPA’s Regulation of Power Plant Greenhouse Gases Reinforces Sustainability Management
The momentum behind decarbonization is unstoppable as the private sector sees the benefit of a lower cost, less polluting, and more reliable energy system. The energy transition may be delayed by political reactionaries, but it will not be stopped.
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Investors Play a Crucial Role in Solving Climate Change
Climate School experts discuss how strategic investing can drive innovation and systemic change.
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The Energy Transition Will Need More Rare Earth Elements. Can We Secure Them Sustainably?
Scientists are exploring a variety of ways to provide raw materials for the energy transition with less harm to people and the planet.
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New York City Government Struggles to Advance Sustainability Goals
Managing New York City is enormously complicated, and reaching carbon reduction goals will be a matter of two steps forward and one step back; management innovation is necessary to bring our city government’s operations into the 21st century and hasten the transition to environmental sustainability.
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The Paradox of Lithium
The clean energy transition depends heavily on lithium, but mining this element is not “clean.” We must not fall into the same traps from which we are trying to free ourselves.

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