sustainability
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161 for — 8 abstensions — 0 againstšššOn July 28, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. This is huge. And it has been 50 years in the making. There are many reasons to applaud the many people whi tirelessly
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New research piece: Together with Chris Hartgerink, we look at scholarly publishing houses and their environmental impact in this guest post. TL;DR: 1) We need transparent, comparable, machine-readable emissions data. We are in a Climate Emergency ā there is no time to hide behind wordy (100 pages) reporting. 2) Some of these research publishers are
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I really enjoy working with smaller organisations on their sustainability and impact journeys. Seeing their creativity and progress is just so rewarding. Year 2 of Liberate Scienceās GHG assessment took Chris Hartgerink and me merely an hour to calculate. What did we learn? ā Practice helpsā Every decision mattersā Focus on both, reduction & mitigation
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During this yearās re:publica 2022, June 8-10 in Berlin, I had the great pleasure of joining two remarkable women and longtime friends for a panel discussion on the intersection of open data, digital rights, and the climate crisis. Together with Open Knowledge Foundation CEO, Renata Avila and Sustainable Internet Lead with the Green Web Foundation,
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Am 28. April war ich auf Gut Oppershausen in Wienhausen eingeladen von der IHK LĆ¼neburg-Wolfsburg. In meiner Keynote ging es um das Zusammenspiel von Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit mit einem klaren Credo: Ein kurzes Video mit EindrĆ¼cken vom Netzwerkabend findet sich auf dem Youtube-Kanal der IHK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzeHop9EDKQ
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A short while back, the UK’s CMA practically declared greenwashing illegal (by reiterating consumer protection law). One of the recent cases, enforcing these guidelines, was Oatly, an oat milk consumer brand. Their ads are generally designed as advocacy campaigns that raise awareness around the climate crisis, and our dietary choices. We need more companies contributing
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In the three months since I joined Climatiq to build out our approach to “Strategy and Impact”, I kept coming back to the need to better understand corporate reporting requirements. As a sustainability practitioner, who spends a lot of time thinking about and working at the intersection of digital rights and climate justice, abbreviations like
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In Issue 3 of the beautifully designed and curated Branch Magazine, I got to share a call to action for SMEs: Together with Chris Hartgerink, IndrĆ© BlauzdžiÅ«naitÄ and Vineeta Greenwood we look at some of the main challenges for smaller organisations to take a lead on climate action. We reflect on the lack of scope
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I recently had the pleasure of getting together with Founder and CEO, Chris Hartgerink, to discuss Liberate Science‘s environmental journey. It has been incredibly uplifting and reassuring to support such a promising, young -and principled- start-up in setting them up for an environmentally conscious future. It took us roughly 4 hours to calculate their Greenhouse
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July 29, 2021 marked Earth Overshoot Day. That is the day we are collectively exceeding our planet’s resources for the year, extracting and emitting more than nature can regenerate. It felt like good day to remember the recent Dutch court ruling, which ordered fossil fuel giant Shell to set more ambitious climate targets. In my
Cathleen Berger 