Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Platforms
Implementing climate solutions that intend to achieve the deep decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 needs to be supported with a next-generation standards system that applies the tools of the new “digital economy.” The new systems will be more efficient and...
Nov 23, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Clinton discuss the current perception of climate change versus the way the vast majority of scientists view it.
Nov 11, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship
In her latest book, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein quotes a solar energy teacher who tells his students: “There are times when you must accept small steps forward and there are other times when you need to run like a buffalo, now is the time to run.”...
Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
A new report from the World Bank, Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, shows that, unchecked, the effects of climate change could push 100 million or more people into poverty in the next fifteen years. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the...
Nov 2, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
A series on deep collaboration strategies for deep decarbonization in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal #13 ONE The 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris, COP21, is not going to solve climate change, but the meetings will advance a new international...
Oct 28, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security
A new report from the Nature Climate Change Journal, written by researchers from MIT and Loyola Marymount University and supported by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science has inspired dramatic headlines. The report predicts that the effects of human...