ESG Today

MAY 28, 2024

Grandage joined abrdn in 2013, and has been serving in a series of ESG and sustainability-related roles at the firm, most recently as Head of Sustainable Investing, responsible for integrating abrdn’s approach to sustainable investing across both public and private assets.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now comes “climate risk,” a term that has been kicking around for years — I first wrote about it back in 2013 — but that has risen to a point where major financial and governmental institutions around the world are baking it into their policies and programs. That is, it’s no longer just about “What business is doing to the climate.”

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From 2013, Mary Kay supported large-scale reforestation projects globally, and in 2018, celebrated the planting of its one-millionth tree. Tackling the vast scale of climate change requires collective effort, that’s why we engage in impact-focused partnerships with change-makers like the Arbor Day Foundation.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. What do these four challenges have in common?

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2022

It also helps greatly that the country’s climate policies are underpinned by the world’s first climate change law, introduced in 2008, and a Climate Change Committee (CCC) that holds the government to account on its targets and progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Others are calling for the U.K.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

I’ve attended the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference on sustainable communities for more than a decade, first as a city councillor, then as mayor, and now as an advisor on climate investing and community resilience. He was mayor of Edmonton from 2013 to 2021. This year we have organized the ranking by region.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2023

Mexico had the best score, having reduced emissions by 184% of the reduction needed (although this is largely due to Mexico’s weak target of 22% below 2013 levels by 2030). The data show that while there was a dip in emissions during the early months of the pandemic, it was only temporary, as they rose again from 2020 to 2021. “We

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

Between 2006 and 2013, China’s global share of production of PV cells, the solar industry’s core technology, surged from 14 percent to 66 percent. And these new technologies are key, as solar energy plays a major role in the fight against climate change. appeared first on Renewable Energy World.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets. Impacts of climate change on flooding.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Environmental Resilience By tackling deforestation, we are helping to combat climate change and promoting sustainable supply of key ingredients. We believe this is critical in order to address global climate change and protect the local ecosystems that farmers need to grow sustainable raw materials.

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Impakter

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Instead of smashing buildings, in real life, Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo fights climate injustice and the fossil fuel industry. The post Hulk Actor Mark Ruffalo Vs. Climate Injustice appeared first on Impakter. Laurie Melchionne.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: By now, the alarms over climate change seem to be sounding nearly every week. For Flanagan, the evidence that climate change can cause catastrophic consequences came in the powerful example of Hurricane Katrina. “I SOURCE: Morgan Stanley. Finding Innovative Ways to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. Climate change inequality, contributors and sufferers, has been a key agenda item at COP for many years.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2024

4 “We recognize the increasingly detrimental impact climate change is having on people and ecosystems around the world. SBTi has validated Kenvue's near-term targets as in-line with the urgent actions needed to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C: 4 We aim to meet the goal by end of fiscal year and publish the year after.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

The most impactful challenges cited by the CEOs included inflation, talent scarcity, public health threats, climate change and trade regulation. 72% of CEOs surveyed agreed that they were responsible for their firms’ sustainability performance, compared to only 19% in a 2013 survey.

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2022

By combining an assessment of carbon handprints with research of business fundamentals, we believe investors can create a portfolio of companies with superior long-term return potential that are providing solutions to the world’s biggest climate challenges. What type of companies are held in climate-focused portfolios?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

And as my colleague Joel Makower wrote at the beginning of the pandemic, "This is exactly the right time to be talking about climate change.". This would help e-commerce companies understand the prevalence of toxic chemicals in their product assortment as well as their contribution to global climate change.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

DESCRIPTION: SWORDS, Ireland, February 28, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Trane Technologies plc (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, today announced it has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Climate Challenge, a national initiative aimed at mitigating climate change impacts while bolstering the clean energy economy.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: September 19, 2022 /3BL Media/ - As the world moves to rebuild our economies and to tackle climate change and systemic injustices, corporate leadership on sustainable development is more important than ever. SOURCE: World Environment Center.

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Impakter

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the winter of 2013-14, 61 000 reindeer died of starvation in the Yamal peninsula of Russia. Svalbard’s Reindeer Population Is Booming: Is it the Food? Reindeer may have survived the last Ice Age, but a warmer Arctic is posing a formidable threat to these hardy animals. The disappearance of […].

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Luggage Point is also home to Urban Utilities’ Innovation Centre, launched in 2013. Over the coming decades, the centre will continue evolving as it plans to cater to population growth and climate change. According to Arnold, the centre has since developed into a multifaceted precinct.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2013, the largest marine heatwave on record began when an unusually warm mass of water formed in the Gulf of Alaska. by Erica Nielsen and Sam Walkes (University of California, Davis) Land–based heatwaves have a less obvious though equally important sibling: marine heatwaves.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2022

New Climate Adaptation Strategy encourages financial institutions to innovate and expand solutions. Chinese authorities have released a new national climate adaptation strategy covering the country’s response to climate change until 2035.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These frustrations eventually boiled over in 2013 when hundreds of scientists took to the streets in lab coats to protest the “war on science.” Their 2013 survey of federal scientists found that 90 per cent of respondents felt restricted in their ability to conduct and communicate research, and 70 per cent reported political interference.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

7] Since 2013, 287 unique local authorities issuers have issued 1155 green, social and sustainability bonds. [8] Gradual Development of Urban GSS Market Exhibit 1: Urban GSS Securities (2013–2022) The past nine years of data show that local authorities in Germany so far have issued the most urban GSS bonds.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In a 2013 demo, for instance, scientists showed off a lab-grown burger that cost $325,000. . Climate Change. This week, Future Meat Technologies, an Israeli startup, announced it can produce a cultured chicken breast for $7.50. Food Systems. Innovation. Featured Column. Sponsored Article.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1%

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Risks Report, “climate action failure” is the number one long-term threat to the world, and it is the risk that has potentially the most severe impacts over the next decade. Globally, the years 2013-2021 all rank among the ten warmest years on record.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Notable examples include: The World Bank (through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) issued its first green bond in 2008 with $440 M; The African Development Bank (ADB) issued a half a billion USD green bond in October 2013.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Since 2013, American has invested more than $24 billion in modernizing our fleet by taking delivery of more than 600 new aircraft. compared with 2013, based on fuel burn per ASM. Over the same period, we retired 670 older, less fuel-efficient planes through the end of 2021. That adds up to 1.9 Advancing Next-Generation Aircraft.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 27, 2023

First Quantum acquired the mine in 2013. The mine’s first contract was signed in 1997 under then-owner Petaquilla Gold and was declared unconstitutional in 2017 by the Supreme Court. But even without a contract, operations have continued.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The program has expanded every year, from five students in 2013 to 185 in 2022. ENLACE [made] a big change in my life, as an opportunity that not only helped me start the career I am in, but also made me rethink the area of science I was interested in,” Sandoval says.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

Our journey began with a focus on understanding our impact on one of the most pressing issues of our lifetime—climate change. In recognizing climate change as an imperative, we announced aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that will challenge us well into the future as we pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The evidence from the last 50 years, presented in the State of Nature report, shows that the intensive way in which we manage our land for farming and the continuing effects of climate change, are the two biggest drivers of nature loss. At sea, unsustainable fishing and climate change are the major contributing factors.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2013, a buddy of Newfoundland apprentice electrician Devin Keats convinced him to go west to work in the oil and gas fields of Alberta. We need to shift our country’s labour market in order to implement solutions to slow climate change.” . In 2014, a global oil glut sent petroleum prices spiralling down.

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