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AMD Celebrates Earth Day 2022

3BL Media

environmental impacts at AMD and in our supply chain?. Last year, AMD announced the completion of several 2014-2020 goals, including a 38 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our global operations (scope 1 and 2) and a 31.7x MINIMIZING? increase in energy efficiency for our processors powering mobile devices.

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Fixing the S in ESG

Stanford Social Innovation

Commentators and investors have described S in many different ways: as social issues, labor standards, human rights, social dialogue, pay equity, workplace diversity, access to health care, racial justice, customer or product quality issues, data security, industrial relations, or supply-chain issues.

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Russia: Sanctions and divestment. The case for a nuanced approach

Tobias Webb

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 , and annexed Crimea in 2014, and last summer Putin wrote an essay outlining what the Atlantic Council described as “the historical basis for his claims against Ukraine.” In the case of Russia, such a priority is clearly present: the desire to re-establish Russian hegemony in the region.

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Spike in energy prices suggests that sharp changes are ahead

Gail Tverberg

Use global supply chains to source as large a share of manufacturing inputs as possible from countries with low wages and low energy costs. Build very “lean” just-in-time supply chains. Then, in 2014, when oil prices suddenly fell, the dominant story suddenly became, “There is plenty of oil.

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Top 20 Chief Sustainability Officers of Europe Announced by Futur/io

3BL Media

In addition to Competent Boards, Helle has a few other brainchildren, including the world's first green account, the first integrated report, the first holistic supply chain program and many innovative business solutions, and latest The Future Boardroom.

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Why Battery Energy Storage Is the Solution Everyone Needs. For Now

3BL Media

The partnership, launched in 2014, provided Black & Veatch with an opportunity to demonstrate its ability to scale up deployment of large-scale battery energy storage systems. Microgrids are designed to supply electricity to a limited area, such as small communities, military facilities, academic campuses and corporate parks.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 million two-liter soda bottles each year. .

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