🌎 CAT Newsletter #8 - 2020-02-18 🌏
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ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Founding Engineer / Tech Lead at Joro (https://angel.co/company/joro-app/jobs/669231-founding-engineer-tech-lead) Joro is hiring a Founding Engineer / Tech Lead in Oakland. Joro mobilizes people to take collective climate action. … Apply now on AngelList. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581531409057800) to this conversation on Slack
Looking for a visual / UI designer in Berlin (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581583946062100) To work on a new digital product being developed for positive environmental and humanitarian impact. Full time position in a growing team. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581583946062100) to this conversation on Slack
Senior Design & Publications Officer (https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/Jobs/2020%20Senior%20Design%20and%20Publications%20Officer/Senior%20Design%20&%20Publications%20Officer%20-%20January%202020.pdf) Looking for a Design and Publications Officer to join the Green Party’s Communications Team (England and Wales) ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581606549073800) to this conversation on Slack
ð° News Highlights
Spotify’s sustainability report from 2019 (http://q4live.s22.clientfiles.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/540910603/files/doc_downloads/govDocs/2019/03/2018-Spotify-Sustainability-Report-FINAL.pdf) This 2018 Sustainability and Social Impact Report is our first opportunity to measure ourselves against that baseline.
Netflix released their inaugural sustainability report (https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_downloads/2020/02/0220_Netflix_EnvironmentalSocialGovernanceReport_FINAL.pdf) 2019 Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Report
Study reveals YouTube promotes climate misinformation and major companies are funding it (https://themilsource.com/youtube-promotes-climate-misinformation-companies-funding-2020/) A study published on Jan. 16 from the activist group Avaaz revealed that YouTube is âactively promotingâ climate disinformation on its platform, which some of the biggest companies and environmental groups in the world are funding by advertising on the videos.
Diego Saez Gil on How Pachama Uses Tech to Help Solve Climate Change (https://blog.ycombinator.com/diego-saez-gil-on-how-pachama-uses-tech-to-help-solve-climate-change/) Diego Saez Gil is the founder of Pachama (YC W19). Pachama is building a marketplace where companies can support carbon offset projects.
Christiana Figueres on the climate emergency: âThis is the decade and we are the generationâ (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/christiana-figueres-climate-emergency-this-is-the-decade-the-future-we-choose) The leader of the 2015 Paris accord talks about her new book, The Future We Choose, and why itâs crunch time for humanity
Climate change means longer take-offs and fewer passengers per aeroplane â new study (https://theconversation.com/climate-change-means-longer-take-offs-and-fewer-passengers-per-aeroplane-new-study-131613) The connection between your next flight and climate change is likely clear in your head. More aeroplanes emitting greenhouse gases means more global warming. Simple enough, but thereâs an opposite side that you probably hadnât thought of.
GHG Emissions, Sources And Activities, WRI Latest (https://www.thendobetter.com/investing/2020/2/8/ghg-emissions-sources-and-activities-wri-latest) Latest WRI visual on GHG source emissions. Thereâ a new WRI blog on energy flows and GHG emissions. Based on more recent CAIT data itâs different from the older IPCC data.
Renewables in Germany (Energiewende!) and Nuclear in France (Clean Energy!) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&=&v=cto3–6fYNE&=&feature=emb_title) Latest WRI visual on GHG source emissions. Thereâ a new WRI blog on energy flows and GHG emissions. Based on more recent CAIT data itâs different from the older IPCC data.
These three post-Brexit bills bulldoze a hole through environmental protections (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/12/these-three-post-brexit-bills-bulldoze-a-hole-through-environmental-protections) Wildlife, air quality and fish stocks are all at risk as ministers water down EU regulations
Spring Is Here… But It’s Still Winter (https://earther.gizmodo.com/spring-is-here-but-its-still-winter-1841605892) Weâre more than a month out from the official start of spring, but that hasnât stopped it from popping up earlier than expected. The USA National Phenology Network released data Monday showing that spring has arrived across the Southeast earlier than at any point in the last 39 years. Leaves and flowers appearing this early in the year could spell trouble for crops and wildlife in the region.
Latin Americaâs new leftists are choosing oil despite renewables boom (https://qz.com/1793342/latin-americas-new-leftist-leaders-backtrack-on-the-environment/) Both Mexico’s Lopez Obrador and Argentina’s Fernandez look set to halt a renewables boom and rely on oil to boost their economies.
BP pulls advertising campaign just months after our legal complaint (https://www.clientearth.org/bp-pulls-advertising-campaign-just-months-after-our-legal-complaint/) During BPâs net-zero announcement yesterday, new CEO Bernard Looney announced that BP will âstop corporate reputation advertisingâ.
Mark Carney Argues That Low Carbon Growth Is Possible (https://www.thendobetter.com/investing/2020/2/15/mark-carney-argues-that-low-carbon-growth-is-possible) Mark Carney, Governor Bank Of England, argued that low carbon economic growth is possible. In further testimony, he stresses the importance of transition, policy, transparency and risk management while commenting that intangible growth is still important growth.
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