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fromFortune
4 hours ago

It's no time to go quiet on sustainability. Just ask beauty giant L'Oreal | Fortune

Unless you are a hair salon engaged in the business of washing customers' hair, of course. Then using 70% less water could well matter as you attempt to cut your carbon footprint. It is more efficient as well. The Water Saver showerhead came from a partnership between Swiss startup, Gjosa, and L'Oréal, the global beauty brand and Fortune 500 Europe listee. At its most basic, Water Saver makes water, well, wetter-fragmenting the water streams to create droplets better suited to rinsing hair:
Environment
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Retraction Note: The economic commitment of climate change

The authors have retracted this paper for the following reasons: post-publication, the results were found to be sensitive to the removal of one country, Uzbekistan, where inaccuracies were noted in the underlying economic data for the period 19951999. Furthermore, spatial auto-correlation was argued to be relevant for the uncertainty ranges. The authors corrected the data from Uzbekistan for 19951999 and controlled for data source transitions and higher-order trends as present in the Uzbekistan data.
Environment
fromState of the Planet
4 months ago

Starting Locally, Thinking Globally: One Student's Journey to the M.S. in Climate Finance

Pulkit Bajpai will combine climate economics and data science training with Columbia's M.S. in Climate Finance to advance climate adaptation and funding for vulnerable communities.
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