Written by: Kimberly White
Google has pledged to no longer build custom artificial intelligence (AI) tools for oil and gas companies to extract fossil fuels from around the globe.
In an interview with theCUBE, Google Cloud managing director Will Grannis stated...
Written by: Kimberly White
Morgan Stanley will no longer fund oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Morgan Stanley is the fifth largest funder of fossil fuels in the United States. Thirty-five global...
Written by: Sean Fleming
The statistics on global food waste make for grim reading. And as more consumers become aware of the problem, a Danish tech start-up with nearly 20 million users has declared war on unwanted food.
Mette Lykke is...
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Written by: Monica Evans
Bamboo might seem an unusual material from which to build bikes, but for young Ghanaian entrepreneur Bernice Dapaah, the idea was easy to come by. “When I was very young, I...
Written by: Kimberly White
UBS Group will no longer fund new offshore oil projects in the Arctic. The Swiss bank also announced it would not provide financing for new thermal coal mines or oil sands on undeveloped lands.
The new standards...
Written by: Hans Nicholas Jong
Environmental watchdogs have welcomed a zero-deforestation pledge by South Korean trading giant POSCO International with regard to its palm oil operations in Indonesia’s Papua province, following years of razing the land.
Under its “No Deforestation,...
Written by: Kimberly White
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo will no longer fund oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The announcements come on the heels of similar commitments made by Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.
JPMorgan...
Written by: Sean Fleming
Just for a minute, think about the shower gel you use. Or the laundry detergent, ice cream or fruit juice you buy. When you buy it, it’s yours – all of it. The contents and...
Written by: Akanksha Khatri
At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos in January this year, there was unprecedented interest in and commitment to fighting the climate and nature emergencies facing humanity. Although the world’s 7.6 billion people represent...
Written by: Kimberly White
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he is committing $10 billion to help tackle the climate crisis through the launch of the Bezos Earth Fund.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want...