Protecting the Shores of the Great Lakes and Combating Climate Change with Coastal Carbon Capture
As anyone who has lived near one of the Great Lakes for the last few decades knows, water levels are on the rise and erosion is worsening. Thousands of homes are at risk, and the cost of protecting shorelines will run into the billions of dollars. The culprit? Excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, […]
Sustainable Great Lakes: A Regional Assessment of Sustainability in the Binational Great Lakes Megaregion
For over fifty years, governments around the world, including in Canada, have discussed the importance of sustainability or sustainable development. One of the more prominent undertakings was the Rio Summit in Brazil in 1992, which led to the creation of Agenda 21. Subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2000, […]
For Immediate Release: Great Lakes Carbon Collaborative
United States Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Council of the Great Lakes Region Announce Strategic Decarbonization Partnership TORONTO, Ontario and HOUSTON, Texas, September 29, 2021 – The United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), a leading business and sustainability association, today announced a strategic partnership with the bi-national Council of the […]
Great Lakes Carbon Collaborative
The bi-national Great Lakes region is home to 107 million people and has a combined GDP of US$6.0 trillion, making it an ideal place for American and Canada businesses, governments, academia, and the non-profit sector to come together as one to discuss shared decarbonization interests and solutions. The Council of the Great Lakes Region is […]
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – Book Excerpt
An excerpt of Katharine Hayhoe’s 2021 book ‘Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World’
Recovery, Resiliency, Regeneration:
The Path to a Circular Economy in the Great Lakes Region
Climate change and the circular economy are inextricably linked. We cannot address one without the other. The tr.ansition requires recovery, resilience, and regeneration
Can Smart Cities Save the World?
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Smart Cities could save the world. But today, cities are killing it—at least the way we currently live in them. They consume two-thirds of global energy and produce 70% of the carbon emissions. And it’s a problem growing in size: the United Nations predicts at least 68% of the global population of nearly 10 billion […]
Time to Charge Ahead:
Great Lakes Region Requires Infrastructure to Power EVs
By Tom Van Heeke The automotive industry is undergoing profound changes. For its part, General Motors (GM) is on its way to an all-electric future with a plan to have 30 electric vehicles (EVs) in our global portfolio by the end of 2025 and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from our new light-duty vehicles […]
A Dimon in the Rough: JP Morgan Chase CEO’s Leadership Example
By The Honourable Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan In the neighborhood of 30,000 words, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chairman and chief executive officer Jamie Dimon’s 2020 letter to shareholders is a magnum opus. In thud factor terms, that’s about one third of the length of the average novel, but well worth the read. Dimon’s novel […]
Making Sustainability Accessible for Every Business & Organization: Diagnosis is Step 1
By Daniel Jacob There is no doubt that in order to ensure a future for all, businesses have to do their part in adopting better sustainable management practices, and it has been proven that companies who do encompass sustainability in their strategic decision-making garner greater returns: “Over the course of 2020, we have seen how […]