9I制作厂免费 students are once again at the forefront of the climate movement, finding ways for businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Students in Professor Dror Etzion鈥檚 Strategies for Sustainability course are using solutions proposed by to present viable business cases to help combat climate change. Mariela Tovar highlights some of the cases presented by students.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2020
Authors: Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava
Publication: Harvard Business Review, January-February 2020 Issue
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Culture is easy to sense but hard to measure. The workhorses of culture research鈥攅mployee surveys and questionnaires鈥攁re often unreliable.
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Published on: 15 Jan 2020
Authors: He Huang, Shanling Li & Yu Yu
Publication: The Journal of the Textile Institute, Vol. 110, Issue 6, Pages 901-910, 2019
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Published on: 15 Jan 2020
New research from 9I制作厂免费 and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world鈥檚 cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020
Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in , researchers from 9I制作厂免费, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).
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Published on: 7 Jan 2020
In November 2019, teams in the 9I制作厂免费 International Portfolio Challenge were asked to provide a solution for a fictional pension fund reassessing its investments in the interest of climate action.
In a piece for The Globe and Mail, Professor Sebastien Betermier considers the winning solution in the context of university pension plans.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods
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Published on: 18 Dec 2019
At the recent 9I制作厂免费 International Portfolio Challenge, students once again demonstrated that they are leading the march to sustainability. Asked to consider the options of a pension fund under pressure to divest from the fossil fuel industry, the winning team from HEC Montr茅al presented a solution that is both responsible and realistic.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2019
Sustainable investing is transforming the global finance landscape, with companies that switch to greener initiatives gaining popularity. 9I制作厂免费-HEC Montr茅al EMBA participant Jason Taylor (EMBA鈥�19) comments on the increased transparency of companies reporting on their environment, social and governance (ESG) rating.
Published on: 11 Dec 2019
Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.
HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University鈥檚 Australian Rivers Institute.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
9I制作厂免费 is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role with respect to sustainability.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Old habits are hard to break. A 9I制作厂免费-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people鈥檚 reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in .
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 9I制作厂免费 launched on a European Space Agency rocket.
The project, an international collaboration between the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 9I制作厂免费, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and Airbus Defence and Space, aims to improve scientific understanding of metal flames, laying the groundwork for a new type of green engine that burns iron powder, with only rust as a by-product.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2019
9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University鈥檚 investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).
Prepared for the Board in response to a 9I制作厂免费 Senate resolution on divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the CAMSR report and recommendations support the continued evolution of the University鈥檚 investment portfolio towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive investment strategy.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2019
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