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Chapter 12 Notes
1. See https://www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/stories/bringing-leafy-greens-to-northern-sweden.
2. See You can keep track of your country’s current policies and pathway toward 1.5°C
with this tool: https://climateactiontracker.org.
3. See https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/the-trio-of-obstacles-on-climate-
4. See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/smart-and-the-city-working-title.
5. See https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/12/06/
denmark-adopts-climate-law-cut-emissions-70-2030.
6. See http://350.org, http://gofossilfree.org, http://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/,
http://collaction.org, https://change.org, and https://campax.org.
7. See https://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/en.
8. See WWF’s “Earth Hour” and the “Who made my clothes?” campaign by Fashion
Revolution.
9. In 2021, this was Monsanto/Bayer, Corteva, and Syngenta.
10. If you live in the UK, you can explore your community footprints through this tool
11. The top 5 banks being JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial and Wells Fargo, See https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/. See also the
Carbon Bankroll Report: https://www.carbonbankroll.com/.
12. See https://www.asyousow.org/invest-your-values.
13. This means: Sustainable Development Goals, Environment and Social Corporate
Governance, and sustainability-related Exchange Traded Funds.
14. See https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/962785/The_Economics_of_Biodiversity_The_Dasgupta_
15. See https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/esg-assets-may-hit-53-trillion-
by-2025-a-third-of-global-aum.
16. For example, see https://bank.green.
17. See https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings.
18. See https://genderequalityfunds.org/action-toolkit and https://fossilfreefunds.org/
fossil-free-action-toolkit; https://gunfreefunds.org/action-toolkit.
19. See https://www.unpri.org/introductory-guides-to-responsible-investment/
what-is-responsible-invest ment/4780.article, and https://www.imd.org/blog/
sustainability/sustainable-investing/.
20. See https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption.
21. See https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption.
22. See https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121715/
worlds-biggest-state-owned-oil-companies.asp.
23. Look for companies with MSCI ESG ratings and SDG indicators.
See https://www.asyousow.org/invest-your-values for a great research tool.
24. See https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220149 like Yova.ch, Trine.com, Verve.vc, or
a local Angel group.
25. Such as Globalance or ATMOS Financial.
26. See https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2020.
27. For example, see Kiva.org.
28. The United States Census Bureau shows that in 1995, the average home size in
square feet was 1,360, and in 2013, it was 1,600. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/
time-series/econ/mhs/historical-supplemental-data.html.
29. See https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-square-feet-
larger-than-in-1973-and-living-space-per-person-has-nearly-doubled/.
30. See https://theconversation.com/hybrid-working-is-fuelling-demand-for-
more-tech-and-bigger-homes-both-are-bad-news-for-the-planet-166385.
31. See https://www.vodafone-institut.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/
32. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652616301044.
33. See https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/D842-1505-1K86-9882.
34. See http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.017.
35. See https://www.careeronestop.org/GreenCareers/ExploreGreenCareers/
36. See https://www.usgbc.org/leed.
37. See https://www.iso.org.
38. You can find some examples of business calculators on our website. For examples, see
https://gbfcalc.azurewebsites.net/gbf/calc/dataneeds, https://www.carbontrust.com/
resources/sme-carbon-footprint-calculator, https://small99.co.uk, and
https://prod-drupal-files.storage.googleapis.com/documents/resource/public/Homeworking.
39. See, for example,
https://co2.myclimate.org/en/company_calculators/new and shiftyourjob.org.
40. Such as https://netzeroclimate.org/tools-library, https://climatevoice.org/speak-up/,
and https://www.watershedclimate.com/, which has a “Commuting calculator” for
businesses in a few international cities.
41. Salesforce sustainability cloud, Myclimate Smart 3, Ecometrica, Sphera, Sulytics,
Klimetriz, WeSustain, and Engie are just a few.
42. Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures,
Final Report, 2017: https://assets.bbhub.io/company/sites/60/2020/10/
FINAL-2017-TCFD-Report-11052018.pdf p.55, 56.
43. https://www.smartwaytostart.com/.
44. See https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201808/
how-do-personality-traits-change-16-66.
45. See https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape.
46. See https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/13/
the-pros-and-cons-of-gentrification/every-community-deserves-a-third-place.
47. See https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter.
48. See https://www.hdb.gov.sg/residential/buying-a-flat/resale/financing/
cpf-housing-grants/living-with-near-parents-or-child.
49. See https://about.restor.eco/blog.
50. See https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2021-06/20210609_workshop_report_
embargo_3pm_CEST_10_june_0.pdf.
51. See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/smart-and-the-city-working-title.
52. Johan Rockström and Will Steffen: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.
cgi?article=1063&context=iss_pub and Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
53. See https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests.
54. See https://www.theguardian.com/climate-academy/2020/oct/12/indigenous-
communities-protect-biodiversity-curb-climate-crisis.
55. See https://files.worldwildlife.org/wwfcmsprod/files/Publication/file/7d1241kkbj_
August2021Update_ForPeopleForNatureForever.pdf.
56. See https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/
nature-decline-unprecedented-report.
57. See https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/forced-evictions-suppress-maasai-
spirituality-sacred-spaces-in-tanzania/.
58. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice.
59. See https://www.globalsafetynet.app.
60. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lands_inhabited_by_indigenous_peoples.
61. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/the-sustainable-development-goals-can-
62. See WEF article https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/01/