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Masdar Issues $750 Million Green Bond to Fund “Dark Green” Clean Energy Projects

ESG Today

Founded in 2006, Abu Dhabi-based Masdar develops utility scale renewable energy and green hydrogen projects around the world. Ahead of the UAE hosting the UN climate change conference, COP28, we must champion initiatives that advance climate finance and decarbonization. billion, or more than 5.6x

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Advancing Environmental Sustainability in the Beverage Sector Through Collaboration

3BL Media

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a technical coalition formed in 2006. By focusing on this, BIER aims to affect sector change through work focused on water stewardship, energy efficiency and climate change, beverage container recycling, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem services.

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BCG Acquires Sustainability Transformation Consultancy Quantis

ESG Today

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) announced today the acquisition of environmental sustainability consultancy Quantis, in a move aimed at strengthening the firm’s climate and sustainability expertise and transformation capabilities.

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From Ambition to Action: Owens Corning Moves To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

3BL Media

Taking the position that manufacturers must step into a lead role in combating climate change, Owens Corning has committed to make dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade. In addition, we must work to reduce emissions from our processes and improve energy efficiency.” million megawatt-hours per year.

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

An example of his pioneering innovative transdisciplinary approach to these issues can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. With regard to combating anthropogenic climate change, Prof. To promote the SDGs, in 2012, Prof.

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Blog by Fred van Beuningen: Cleantech 2.0

Clean Tech Delta

Venture capital lost about half of the $25B they invested in cleantech between 2006 and 2011, according to PWC , leading them to pivot to software and AI. They can also target specific wicked deep decarbonization problems and have impact thresholds for investing. It seems that cleantech 2.0 is on a one way street now.

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Are Investors and Companies Ready for the Energy Transition?

3BL Media

Technology is improving: Allehaut notes that the largest solar project in 2006 was an 11MW project in Portugal. Scientists and engineers are also working on carbon removal, carbon sequestration and storage, hydrogen power, long-duration energy storage, and other innovative solutions to climate change. GW, some 200 times bigger.