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ICF Honored for "Extraordinary Leadership" in Addressing Climate Change

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Thursday, June 15, 2023
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RESTON, Va., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ: ICFI), a global consulting and technology services provider, was recently awarded a Climate Leadership Award by The Climate Registry for reducing carbon pollution and addressing climate change in both its social actions and client work.

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  • RESTON, Va., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ: ICFI), a global consulting and technology services provider, was recently awarded a Climate Leadership Award by The Climate Registry for reducing carbon pollution and addressing climate change in both its social actions and client work.
  • "ICF has had a longstanding commitment to sustainability, and we work with our clients, partners and one another every day to combat the impacts of climate change," said John Wasson, chair and CEO.
  • ICF climate experts also work with utilities, state and local governments, private-sector companies and national governments in Europe and around the world.
  • Read more about ICF's climate services and insights through the ICF Climate Center.

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Announces 2023 Allergy Capitals

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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For people with asthma, allergies can trigger an asthma attack,” says Kenneth Mendez, CEO and president of AAFA.

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  • For people with asthma, allergies can trigger an asthma attack,” says Kenneth Mendez, CEO and president of AAFA.
  • This means more allergy and asthma attacks and additional strain on our health systems.”
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  • Around 60-80% of the nearly 26 million people in the U.S. with asthma have allergic asthma.
  • “Allergy testing is also a way to better understand your allergy triggers and therefore, better manage them.”
    For tips on how to manage your pollen allergies, go to aafa.org/pollen-allergy .

ICF Appoints Climate Center Executive Director

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI), a global consulting and digital services provider, today announced Michael Jung as the executive director of the ICF Climate Center, the company's thought leadership platform that offers climate research and insights to help organizations achieve their climate goals.   

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  • FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI), a global consulting and digital services provider, today announced Michael Jung as the executive director of the ICF Climate Center , the company's thought leadership platform that offers climate research and insights to help organizations achieve their climate goals.
  • Launched in early 2021, the ICF Climate Center leverages ICF's over 2,000 climate, energy and environment experts and over 40 years of experience to publish groundbreaking research on a variety of climate topics, including electric vehicle adoption, recent federal infrastructure and climate policies, and extreme weather events.
  • Analyses and insights from the ICF Climate Center experts have appeared in over 100 media outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today and Axios.
  • Read more about ICF's energy , environment and climate services and insights through the ICF Climate Center.

ICF Awarded Multiple Climate Advisory Services Contracts

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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FAIRFAX, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF, a global consulting and digital services provider (NASDAQ: ICFI), was recently awarded multiple new and recompete contracts and contract modifications to provide climate advisory services to a number of public sector and commercial clients. The contracts were awarded in the first quarter of 2022.

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  • FAIRFAX, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF, a global consulting and digital services provider (NASDAQ: ICFI), was recently awarded multiple new and recompete contracts and contract modifications to provide climate advisory services to a number of public sector and commercial clients.
  • Examples of climate resilience project work include helping make energy systems resilient to extreme weather, strengthening transportation infrastructures, and developing climate action plans.
  • Read more about ICF's climate services and insights through the ICF Climate Center.
  • ICF is a global consulting services company with approximately 8,000 full- and part-time employees, but we are not your typical consultants.

GSA Press Conference Highlights Alpen's Quad-Pane and Secondary Windows as Energy Efficient Solutions Aligned with Federal Sustainability Goals

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Monday, April 18, 2022
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LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ALPEN HIGH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS INC., a longtime U.S. leader in high efficiency window technology across commercial and residential markets, was highlighted at a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) press conference Wednesday at the Denver Federal Center as a part of GSA's Green Proving Ground (GPG) Program. GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan joined National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Governor Jared Polis, Congressman Ed Perlmutter, and Mayor Adam Paul to discuss the importance of combating the climate crisis through the means of promoting climate and job investments in Colorado.

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  • Federal programs like GSA's GPG Program actively evaluate emerging building technologies to demonstrate its applications towards achieving clean energy and sustainability goals.
  • GSA recently finalized and published the results of its nearly year-long testing and evaluation of WinSert secondary window inserts and lightweight Quad-Pane windows manufactured by Alpen.
  • In discussing the GPG Program, Administrator Carnahan pointed out Alpen windows as an example of what these program investments aim to achieve.
  • "That's where we use innovative, new products and test them out on these federal buildings, and one of them is here today.

Renowned Climate Scientist and Nobel Laureate Betsy Weatherhead Returns to Jupiter

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Monday, December 20, 2021
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Jupiter continues to lead the way in operationalizing science, applying our platform to humanitys most important social and business needs.

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  • Jupiter continues to lead the way in operationalizing science, applying our platform to humanitys most important social and business needs.
  • Weatherhead has three decades of experience in addressing the world's most important environmentaland climate related challenges.
  • Dr. Weatherhead was a leading scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder for much of her career before first joining Jupiter in 2017.
  • Jupiter is the global market, science, and technology leader in physical climate analytics for risk management and resiliency planning.

Government of Canada collaborates with Quebec's Ouranos to bring climate expertise to Canadians

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Friday, February 22, 2019
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Last year, the Government created the Canadian Centre for Climate Services, ensuring Canadians can get accurate and authoritative climate information as they adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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  • Last year, the Government created the Canadian Centre for Climate Services, ensuring Canadians can get accurate and authoritative climate information as they adapt to the impacts of climate change.
  • Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, CatherineMcKenna, announced a new collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Climate Services and Ouranos, in Quebec.
  • Through this collaboration, the Government of Canada is investing $1.25million over five years, in Ouranosa climate-science consortium based in Quebec.
  • This investment will enhance Ouranos's ability to share climate-science expertise and help Canadians plan for the impacts of climate change.

Government of Canada delivering climate expertise to Canadians in collaboration with Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
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Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, CatherineMcKenna, announced a new collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Climate Services and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, based at the University of Victoria.

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  • Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, CatherineMcKenna, announced a new collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Climate Services and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, based at the University of Victoria.
  • Through this collaboration, the Government of Canada is investing $1.25million over five years, in the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, enabling its scientists to share their expertise with Canadians.
  • The Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and the Canadian Centre for Climate Services will help Canadians plan for the impacts of climate change.
  • The Pacific Climate Impacts Consortiumprovides historical and forecasted climate data along with real-time information, and it analyzes the impacts of global climate change in Canada's Pacific and Yukon region.