Actions, Behavior Changes, and Support Needed
Convenience Drives Environmental Action, Study Finds As shown in parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part article series, residents in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, comprising the U.S. Great Lakes region, report strong concern and high knowledge about climate change aspects and the causes. The data from the 2024 EcoFocus […]
Consequences of Less Ice on Lakes Due to Climate Change
The lakes in the Great Lakes region and around the world don’t freeze over as they did in past centuries. That has serious consequences for people, wildlife, and the environment as a whole. That’s been shown by many scientific studies — but the consequences of that reduction of ice coverage have been scattered across many […]
Life is Better by the Lakes: A New Summary of Great Lakes Climate Plans
What common themes exist across the Great Lakes region around climate action? What if the region had a unified vision? A team from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise aimed to find out. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in […]
Climate Change is Altering What We Grow and What We Eat.
I grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm. It was small — one cow — but she supplied our milk and butter. It meant that as a kid, every morning and eve, I cleaned stalls and fed the farm’s menagerie of pigs, horses, cats, dogs, heifers, calves, and that one cow. I milked her […]
Case Study – Procter & Gamble
P&G is an American multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Ohio, founded by William Procter and James Gamble, both from the United Kingdom. Why did you set a science-based target? The company’s mission is to improve the lives of the world’s consumers now and for generations to come. So pursuing goals in line with those […]
IPCC Releases “Final Warning” to Keep 1.5°C Within Reach
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes a final and urgent call for climate action before it’s too late, SBTi Chief Executive Luiz Amaral explains how the initiative is responding to the challenge, and calls for further action from the corporate sector. The planet is at an inflection point when it comes to climate change. The […]
Climate Change Preparedness of Great Lakes Communities: Regulatory Permits & Community Planning are Based on Outdated Precipitation Data
The below is taken from the Executive Summary of the report “Climate Change Preparedness of Great Lakes Communities”, an evaluation of whether regulatory permits and community planning efforts are current and aligned to manage climate change-driven increases in rainfall. Changing rainfall amounts across five cities in the Great Lakes region were examined to understand whether […]
Michigan is a Climate Haven in a Warming World. Will Everyone Move Here?
*The header image used in this article is an illustration by Sean McKewon-Young | Advance Publications It seeped through gaps in the windows and doors. The smoke was inescapable, a constant, sickening odor of a bonfire they didn’t light. They duct taped every opening or crevice – even the dryer vents in the basement – […]
In Charge of CDP Reporting for Your Company? 4 Pieces of Advice
Used to reporting financials as business as usual, companies are now being called upon to disclose their impact and approach on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that materially affect their business. CDP—also known as the Carbon Disclosure Project—is one of the leading frameworks. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is widely regarded as the ‘gold […]
A Look at the Climate Tech Landscape
As the world sets out to decarbonize, it must do so with ambitious scale and speed. The urgency to avoid climate disaster is unquestionable, and the race to reach carbon neutrality, a necessary step to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, is reliant on climate tech solutions providing a pathway. Climate technologies and […]