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The Climate Justice Playbook For Business
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The momentum continues to grow for businesses of all types and sizes to develop and disclose climate action plans and performance. Most recently, President Biden announced on May 20 an Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, with wide-ranging implications for investors, companies and regulators.
However, it is important for businesses developing climate action plans to recognize that climate justice goes hand in hand with climate action.
According to The Climate Justice Playbook for Business recently created by B Lab, the COP26 Climate Champions Team, Provoc, and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford, climate justice is the recognition that the effects of climate change have a disproportionately negative impact on the historically marginalised and underserved – primarily people of colour and low income communities around the world. Climate justice is a complex, intersection
With Idaho s new law, conservationists fear uncontrolled slaughter of 90% of gray wolves Image via Shutterstock.
Wildlife advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about a new extermination law in Idaho, signed this week by GOP Gov. Brad Little, that will allow hunters and private contractors to kill up to 90% of the state s gray wolf populationâabout 1,350 animals. Backed by an array of misinformation and fearmongering, the state Legislature stepped over experts at the Idaho Fish and Game Department and rushed to pass this horrific wolf-killing bill, said Andrea Zaccardi, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
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The business world is changing. Has changed. The COVID-19 pandemic drove companies to transform three times faster in 2020 than in previous years, with 66% shifting to more cloud-based business activities. As enterprise clients undergo rapid change in a turbulent business environment, they need guidance. They may find it at the upcoming IBM Think 2021 virtual event, which promises to teach attendees how to “navigate change through transformation, automation and modernization.”
Business resiliency is the number one attribute required to thrive in the post-pandemic economy, according to market intelligence gathered by International Data Corp. Cloud provides the flexibility to scale operations up and down, allowing businesses to adapt fast to market changes. Add artificial intelligence and machine learning to the cloud model, and the ability to analyze incoming data provides a business with the insights it needs to make course corrections and stay competitive. Yet, w