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NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

As a complement to the sustainability-linked pricing metric included in the SLL in 2019, the issuance of the SLBs aligns our business and financing with our commitments and values by creating a direct link between climate and funding strategies. Clean Energy Buyers Association. Zero Emissions Transportation Association .

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Commitment to Customers, Transparency, and Decarbonization

3BL Media

A: Meeting our climate goals² – while also ensuring that the energy we provide to our customers remains both reliable and affordable, the so-called energy trilemma. NRG’s climate goals are to reduce GHG emissions by 50% by 2025 from the current 2014 base year and to achieve net zero by 2050.

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Snow, Climate Change and the Olympic Winter Games

3BL Media

Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 all relied partially on manufactured snow. With climate change impacting temperatures across the globe, sport – like many other fields – is increasingly affected by it, both in winter and in summer. Man-made snow has been used at previous Olympic Winter Games.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

C40, the network of cities founded in 2005 by then London mayor Ken Livingstone to collectively promote climate action, has spawned a subgroup of female mayors. In 2014, they numbered four; three years later, they were 15, and their number continues to grow. Indeed, 50% of the top 10 cities in the index are led by women. Anne Hidalgo.

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Leaning into Resilience: Three Ways Small and Growing Agriculture Businesses Have Navigated Global Crises – And How Investors Can Support Them

James Militzer

Since initiating operations in 2014, they’ve scaled to work with over 11,000 smallholder farmers, focusing on high-income generating crops, such as legumes. This year they announced that they’re building a digital fintech platform that will allow them to move beyond their current products to also provide credit services.

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NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: Our Sustainability Strategy

3BL Media

Supplemented our annual public policy and political contributions disclosure with an inaugural report on the climate positions of our disclosed membership organizations . Released several years of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-1 reports . degrees Celsius.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile. million acres the 4.4