Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. Sounds like a climate activist’s wish list. Sharc International Systems Growth rate: 328% Hot water down the drain is a waste of energy.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The installation of the electrified Thermal Management System at Trane Charmes is an example of the real-world, sustainability-in-action needed to bend the curve on climate change,” said Dave Regnery. Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Trane Charmes is helping Trane Technologies reach its sustainability goals.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. Waste generated in operations. SOURCE: Antea Group. Purchased goods and services.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively. Price (how much does it cost?). Credit quality of the issuer.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

International Olympic Committee news The Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 will set new standards for environmental responsibility, demonstrating how to hold global sporting events in an era of accelerating climate change. It identifies the biggest sources of emissions, and suggests tangible measures to reduce them.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

These are just a few of the nightmare scenarios evoked by UN Secretary General António Guterres following the publication in April of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate science. Digital technologies render energy waste visible. The findings could scarcely be starker.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2022

z International remains focused on leading in areas where the Company can help deliver more positive impact – including helping to build a thriving cocoa sector, reducing packaging waste and reducing its environmental footprint. 1 Executive leadership defined as Mondel?

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Good.is: Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rather than contributing to climate change, their production process actually combats it. Back in 2012 Anirudh, then a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, was visiting India when he captured a photo of a diesel generator blowing black exhaust against a stained wall, and had a revelation.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this episode, we’ll speak to researcher John Cook and activist Jon Leland to unpack how we can better communicate about the climate—with skeptics and believers alike. John Cook | Monash University Climate Change Communication Research Hub | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He’s seen weather patterns change.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Universities for Goal 13 is an international competition organized by Siemens Gamesa and UN SDSN to promote university talent in the fight against climate change. The winning project is: "Byte Rainforest: A new pathway to realize the intangible value of tropical rainforest” developed by Tsinghua University.

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3BL Media

JUNE 18, 2024

Targeting a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016, Paris 2024 has addressed the broadest category of emissions, also covering the indirect footprint of the Games (scope 3 emissions) such as spectator travel. All seats in the Centre are made from recycled local plastic waste.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The net-zero target aligns with the company’s signing on to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Race to Net Zero initiative, which intends to mobilize businesses, governments and investors to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 in line with the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee 2012-2023, gave a keynote address where he highlighted how Scotland’s renewable energy industry is playing a major role in helping the UK reach it’s net-zero targets.

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CIM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The NABERS Rating (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) and systems such as Green Star and GRESB have been established to encourage and reward building owners for cutting carbon emissions and playing their critical part in curbing climate change. What is a NABERS rating?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The awards celebration also featured speakers such as Jan Artem Henriksson, from the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), Massamba Thioye, from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Parneet Pal, from Systematically Well. Senate and with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Good.is: Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rather than contributing to climate change, their production process actually combats it. Back in 2012 Anirudh, then a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, was visiting India when he captured a photo of a diesel generator blowing black exhaust against a stained wall, and had a revelation.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Klean Kanteen is a proud partner of 1% For The Planet and has been verified as carbon neutral in the production and delivery of its product by Climate Neutral. Zero Waste Gift Box By EarthHero | United States Small Business, LGBTQIA-Owned Price: $48.50 Its office has been powered by renewable Bullfrog energy since 2012.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2023

In order to accelerate this progress on sustainable development and climate change, the Net Zero on Campus Guide was developed to provide these institutions with the support they need to decarbonize their campuses by mid-century or sooner. The SDSN has been operating since 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary‐General.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All low carbon mix designs become largely favorable to traditional concrete when considering social costs of carbon and the cost of diverting expensive waste from landfills. The SDSN has been operating since 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 30, 2023

Position overview The intern is part of the SDSN Food/Land Team and works under the supervision of the FELD director to support the team’s preparation for COP28, and contribute to the team’s ongoing analysis and work, including around a community of practice on Food Loss and Waste. It is directed by Professor Jeffrey D.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 27, 2021

For the pilot version, the team identified six dimensions: aerosols, biodiversity, climate change, land, oceans, and freshwater. Contact us at GCSIndex@unsdsn.org About SDSN: The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has been operating since 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Ballen, who recently took on her new role at Indigo Ag, says her time working in the food and beverage sector shed light on "just how important agriculture is to a sustainable future and the climate change battle.". — Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Meg Wilcox.

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Gail Tverberg

MAY 21, 2024

At the same time, we are being told about the need to transition the entire economy to electricity to prevent climate change. Mining tends to produce a lot of toxic waste. Figure 8 shows an early upward trend in this ratio, but no upward trend since 2012. I will also discuss the key role fossil fuels play.

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

As well as drivers such as land and seascape changes, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species, the report also points to substantial expansion in the global trade in wild species in recent decades. What influence does IPBES have? What solutions does the new species use report propose?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 26, 2022

What has changed, however, is the state of technologies required to access that energy and, more importantly, a growing global consensus that, in an era of climate change, this low-carbon energy source needs to be fully exploited. For a remote, northern community, this seemed an incredible waste.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. At universities and corporations alike, addressing emissions and waste in labs can significantly drive down costs and further sustainability commitments. Elsa Wenzel.

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

ESG’s momentum is due to accelerating climate change, deteriorating natural resources, decreasing labor rights, increasing corruption and other negative externalities that unsustainable and unethical business practices have caused. The chart below illustrates these findings: Source: Fair Finance India.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In the span of a year and a half, Omnis has announced plans for a $60-million project to extract rare-earth elements from coal waste in Wyoming County and a building material construction factory in Bluefield, both in West Virginia, as well as the Pleasants project. But that facility burned down in May. When he failed to pay, Sorenson sued.

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Carlos Sanchez

JUNE 17, 2020

We live in a historical moment where we can choose to go back to the old world of pollution and waste or to accelerate the transition to a future where profits are not against the planet or people. In these times of change, there is an urgent need for global leadership and collaboration. Climate Change agreement in Paris.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Carbon sticks For many years, the primary climate policy recommended by many economists was carbon pricing. Carbon price signals offered a more elegant response to the CO2 emissions challenge compared to government subsidies, which can be inflexible and susceptible to wasteful overcapacity. Sustainable Policy Institute Journal.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2024

It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change. When Chad Griffith became president in 2012, he made a formal apology on behalf of the organization to the transgender community.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We met on September 2019 at the United Nations, on the eve of the Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General and issued a Scientific Framework to Save the Amazon. The Amazon is also a critical buffer against climate change, absorbing between 13% and 20% of the 2.4 Read the full statement on the SPA website. [1]

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

The co-directors are Leah Temper and myself since we began in 2012. FD: The Atlas organizes almost two thousands cases in different categories, such as mining, waste disposal, tourism, biodiversity, water use, or public or private built infrastructure. And the main residue is perhaps carbon dioxide that produces excess climate changes.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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