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Alina Adams

@AlinaAd

Entrepreneur, teacher, dog trainer, marathoner, triathlete.

 Silicon Valley, CA
Joined April 2009
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How to make ESG real in McKinsey Quarterly mck.co/3SrqM39 via @McKinsey

How to make ESG real

While ESG is likely to evolve both in substance and name in the coming years, its underlying impulse is here to stay. Here’s how companies can take a more systematic and rewarding approach to ESG.

mckinsey.com
World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report theguardian.com/environment/…
World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report

World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report

Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme

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Scaling climate action through embedded experiences, by @mcjpod myclimatejourney.substack.co…
McKinsey launches new Sustainable Materials Hub to accelerate the net-zero transition across value chains mck.co/3qyYp7d via @McKinsey
McKinsey launches new Sustainable Materials Hub to accelerate the net-zero transition across value...

McKinsey launches new Sustainable Materials Hub to accelerate the net-zero transition across value...

Companies utilizing steel, cement, and more have pledged to reach net zero—but face major challenges. Our new hub will meet the urgency and promise of the moment.

mckinsey.com
A Biodiversity Crisis: Food Webs Worldwide Are Collapsing scitechdaily.com/a-biodivers…
Four front-foot strategies to help create value in the net-zero transition mck.co/3Rbm0pT via @McKinsey
We need to accelerate emission reduction, this report shows that G7 companies are on a path to a 2.7°C temperature increase. This is way over 1.5C tipping point established by the Paris Agreement in 2015. oliverwyman.com/our-expertis…
Missing The Mark: 2022 Analysis Of Global CDP Temperature Ratings

Missing The Mark: 2022 Analysis Of Global CDP Temperature Ratings

This report uses CDP’s latest temperature ratings to assess whether current corporate emissions reduction targets are ambitious enough to meet 1.5C.

oliverwyman.com
From Aspiration to Action: Credible Corporate Climate Leadership and the Net-Zero Imperative weforum.org/whitepapers/from… via @wef
ESG Can’t Square With Fiduciary Duty by Jed Rubenfeld and William P. Barr wsj.com/articles/esg-cant-sq… via @WSJ
Opinion | ESG Can’t Square With Fiduciary Duty

Opinion | ESG Can’t Square With Fiduciary Duty

State attorneys general issue a strong warning to investment managers and retirement fund trustees.

wsj.com
This is beautiful NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet nasa.gov/image-feature/godda…
NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet - NASA Science

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet - NASA Science

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. Webb's First Deep Field is galaxy

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Taking carbon out of the atmosphere is hard but can help limit climate change. Now businesses are pledging billions to the small companies that say they can do it. wsj.com/articles/carbon-remo… via @WSJ

Carbon-Removal Industry Draws Billions to Fight Climate Change

Funding is picking up for the nascent industry of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help limit climate change.

wsj.com
After 4 years teaching at Northeastern University, it was exciting to attend the graduation ceremony with my fellow colleagues for the first time. Congratulations to the graduates of 2022!
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Replying to @Google
@Google is supporting #Ukrainian #startups, equity-free cash, apply here: campus.co/europe/ukraine-sup…
Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it | George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like theguardian.com/environment/…
The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like

The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like

Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?

theguardian.com
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Long overdue banning 'forever chemicals' in children's products, food packaging thehill.com/policy/equilibri…
Newsom signs laws banning ‘forever chemicals’ in children’s products, food packaging

Newsom signs laws banning ‘forever chemicals’ in children’s products, food packaging

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two laws on Tuesday banning the use of toxic “forever chemicals” in children’s products and disposable food packaging, as well as a package of bills to overh…

thehill.com
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The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was in the Previous 50, a...

The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was in the Previous 50, a...

James Hansen, a climate scientist who shook Washington when he told Congress 33 years ago that human emissions of greenhouse gases were cooking the planet, is now warning that he expects the rate of...

insideclimatenews.org
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Climate change will hit U.S. racial minorities the hardest #Climatechange @EPA @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters bbc.com/news/science-environ…

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