First Lady Dr. Jill Biden spoke at Amazon HQ2 for the annual IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference as tech and ESG teams gathered to create social impact partnerships.
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| By Josie Koehler | Venice, Italy, is taking measures to combat the adverse effects of mass tourism, announcing initiatives to restrict or ban loudspeakers and large tourist groups, and implementing an entry fee.
| By Ava Wong | Mining for critical minerals needed for clean energy disproportionately affects Indigenous people. DEI policies are therefore crucial for a culturally sustainable energy transition.
| By Linyi Zheng | ExxonMobil launched a legal offensive against ESG advocacy investment institutions Arjuna Capital and Follow This to stifle the organizations’ emission reduction proposals.
| By Linyi Zheng | The European Parliament approved the new Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition to protect consumers from misleading marketing practices and aid them in making better purchasing decisions by prohibiting deceptive environmental claims.
| By Eliana Pisons | Japan has demonstrated its commitment to climate finance with the ambitious intention to issue $11 billion in climate transition bonds, set to be released in February.
| By Linyi Zheng | On November 8th the WMO announced that the El Niño weather pattern is expected to have a 90% chance to persist throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter until April 2024, contributing to the possible hottest year on record.
| By Emma Kuruppacherry | For the first time, G20 countries agreed on how much action is needed to reach their clean energy goals and to triple renewable energy efforts by 2030.
| by Emma Kuruppacherry |
This year East Africa saw its worst drought in 40 years. After over 2 years of insufficient rainfall, famine and water shortages cost many their livelihoods and forced them to leave their homes.
The World Food Program stated that by the end of 2022, around 23 million people in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia were “severely food insecure” which means they had run out of food entirely and went at least a day without eating. However, a new study from a group of extreme-weather scientists revealed that this drought wasn’t a chance accident but a result of intensifying climate change.