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This Week in Environment News: 10 Stories You Need to See
Saturday, December 9, 2023
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy environment industry press releases from PR Newswire, including several headlines related to COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the environment industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
1. Mars "Reuses" Fan-Favorite Ads for M&Ms®, TWIX®, SNICKERS® and Ben's
Original(TM) to Deliver Message of Hope for Climate ActionThe Mars
campaign is aimed at raising consumer awareness by 'reusing' old, iconic
adverts and showcasing creative ways to leave a lighter environmental
footprint in advertising, following the recent publication of the Mars
Net Zero Roadmap.
2. NASA Leadership to Participate in Global Climate Change ConferenceThis
global conference brings together countries committed to addressing
climate change, which is a key priority for the Biden-Harris
Administration and NASA. For the first time, a NASA administrator will
attend, joining an expected 70,000 participants, world leaders, and
representatives from nearly 200 countries.
3. IBM Advances Geospatial AI to Address Climate ChallengesIBM announced new
efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM's
geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to
climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United
Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation across Kenya; and climate resiliency
in the United Kingdom (UK).
4. Renowned environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill calls on leaders to end
deforestation and back community-centered REDD+ projects"It is so clear
that people around the world are begging and calling out for forests to
be protected, for people to care and take action. Our leaders, all of us,
have to be more than just talking about solutions. We absolutely need to
be taking action and living these solutions," said Julia Butterfly Hill.
5. Deloitte report: Improved financing could save US$50 trillion as the
world decarbonizesThe report highlights the need for governments,
financial institutions, and investors to jointly develop mechanisms to
help mitigate risk from green projects by developing blended, low-cost
finance solutions to mobilize private investment and help achieve
economic growth and climate neutrality--especially in emerging economies.
6. ReSeed and FoodChain ID Announce Ground-Breaking Partnership That
Promotes Transparency for Sustainable Practices in the Global Agri-Food
Supply ChainWith the goal to support a healthy planet, the partnership
will leverage each company's unique, world-class expertise to
incentivize, measure and verify the progress of carbon sequestration
through regenerative agriculture practices under a new carbon credit
verification standard.
7. VinFast Honoured to Represent Vietnam to Speak and Showcase its VF 9 EV
at COP28This is an important platform, and represents an opportunity for
VinFast to discuss green mobility solutions and sustainable development
strategies to support a more sustainable future for generations to come.
8. Bloomberg Integrates United Nations Framework to Assess Potential Company
Impact on Sustainable Development GoalsThe new data mapping and
materiality assessment will provide more clarity for investors seeking to
direct capital towards sustainable assets and assess the alignment of
private sector activity with the SDGs.
9. Right Here, Right Now: Education Cannot Wait Issues US$150 Million Appeal
to Scale Up Work in Response to the Climate CrisisReleased in advance of
the Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai, the new appeal
underscores the urgent need to connect education action with climate
action. New ECW data indicates that 62 million children and adolescents
affected by climate shocks are in desperate need of education support
since 2020.
10. SMX Announces Planned Launch of World's First Plastic Cycle TokenAmidst
a global context where only an estimated 9% of plastic is recycled
(OECD, 2022) in a market valued at over $40 billion (Statista, 2021),
this initiative is being designed to present a reliable, ethical digital
credit platform, aiming to capitalize on billions of dollars in
recyclable plastics credits in a newly created market.
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