Archive for March 2020

Coronavirus Augurs Hope for Climate Action

March 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The coronavirus will augur change and while it is far too early to say with any certainty, it may very well drive the kind of radical transformation that we need to address the climate crisis. People are coming together to face this modern day plague. We are seeing a return to multilateralism and...

The Scourge of Ghost Planes in the Wake of the Coronavirus

March 21, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Early in March as the coronavirus was breaking and air travel was declining airlines began flying empty planes so that they could keep their flight slots. According to European rules if airlines fail to fly their allocated flights they risk losing their right to fly these routes. These passenger-less...

Zombie Pathogens and 5 Other Climate Concerns Undermining Human Health

March 20, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The world is preoccupied with coronavirus, however, our health is also being impacted by climate change in a number of ways. There are a host of serious diseases that are being unleashed as the world continues to warm. Melting ice and rising seas are expected to add to the number of pathogens that...

The Fossil Fuel Industry is Increasing Climate Change Causing Emissions

March 18, 2020 Add Comment Edit

It is important to acknowledge where most of the current emissions come from. The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA, in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal...

Climate Related Excerpts from the March 15th Democratic Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

March 17, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Here are the climate related excerpts from the CNN Univision Democratic Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders that took place on March 15, 2020 in Washington DC. The debate was moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Univision’s Ilia Calderón. Although the coronavirus...

Emission Reductions from the Coronavirus are Being Undermined by Government Subsidies

March 16, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 4,000 people and infected more than 120,000, but on the upside it is cutting global carbon emissions for the first time in more than a decade. In China we have seen emissions fall by 25 percent (200 megatonnes of CO2). We are seeing a tremendous decline...

Event - Impact Investing Forum 2020 (West Palm Beach)

March 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Opal Group's 5th annual Impact Investing Forum will take place on March 29, 2020 - March 31, 2020 at the Hilton West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL.Impact investing is an approach that seeks to create positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Today, we see an increase...

Two Climate Pledges Honoring the Paris Climate Agreement

March 13, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Businesses have signed two climate promises in recent years. The most recent is the Climate Pledge which was founded by Amazon along with Global Optimism an organization founded by Christiana Figueres, the UN’s former climate change chief and Tom Rivett-Carnac, a former senior advisor to the Executive...

Trump's Mishandling of the Coronavirus is a lot like his Climate Strategy

March 11, 2020 Add Comment Edit

U.S. President Donald Trump did not cause the Coronavirus just like he did not invent hate or the climate crisis, but he does have an extraordinary aptitude for making bad situations worse. More than 1000 Americans are known to have the virus but that number is likely far higher as tests are in short...

Female Investors Make More Money by Caring about People and the Planet

March 10, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Women control $14 trillion of personal wealth in the U.S. and they are an important part of the rapidly growing impact investing market. According to the Global Impact Investing Network (GINN) the size of the impact investing market doubled between 2017 and 2018 to $228 billion in assets under management.The...

Why the Climate Movement Needs Women in Positions of Political Power

March 09, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Countries with female political leaderships adopt more stringent climate change policies, so if we had more women heads of state we could expect to see more ambitious actions. This is the conclusion of a 2018 study which demonstrated that female politicians are better climate leaders than their male...

28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

March 06, 2020 Add Comment Edit

March 8 is International Women's Day, and this is a day to honor all the women who have contributed to environmental stewardship around the world. However, this year we are forced to acknowledge that women are increasingly being targeted by a growing chorus of misogynistic voices. In the era of trump...