Simposio Latinoamericano de Medio Ambiente June 5-6 for World Environment Day hybrid for the first time! After the great experience of the World Environment Conference organized by ESRAG’s Latin American (LATAM) Chapter in 2021 on Zoom, we decided to have our own...
By Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director Harvard philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger wrote, “at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.” Imagine if all the fears imbedded...
by Dr. Pat Armstrong, ESRAG Chair, and Dr. Yasar Atacik, ESRAG Chair-Elect Pakistan’s catastrophic 2022 floods, Europe’s deadly wildfires, and the titanic cyclones slamming Africa are just three of the rising global toll of disasters which justify the urgency of the...
By Joey O’Brien Is the carbon market real? Take a look at this map identifying current actors in the voluntary carbon market. If you have not been inundated with information about carbon credits or offsets, you might have found the perfect rock to hide under....
By Ariel Miller “Personal carbon trackers can make one feel hopeless,” notes economist Dr. Nilam Bedi, ESRAG’s technical liaison to Rotary International. “How do we link our actions to impact? Rotarians are very action-oriented. We need optimality: a way to find the...
By Joey O’Brien, ESRAG Director The Banff Marathon was Canada’s first signatory to the United Nations sectorial call for partnerships under “sport for climate action.” We hit 100% waste diversion in 2018. This is for an event with about 10,000 people over...
