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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

From a high in 2014, prices paid to farmers have plummeted by 70 percent and now dance around $1 per pound. After backing out shipping, insurance, importer and exporter and mill costs, that price would be closer to $2.20 By 2014, Starbucks was only paying $1.72 However, that is the price it paid to the broker, not to the farmer.

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Millions in costs due to discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680 million between 2014 and 2022.

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Trane Technologies Recognized for Sustainability Performance With Inclusion on Corporate Knights’ Global 100

3BL Media

The company also delivered on its low-carbon steel commitment , shipping more than one million HVAC units with low-carbon steel to homeowners and commercial customers across the United States. In 2014, the company set its first science-based 2020 Climate Commitments – accelerating innovation to achieve them two years ahead of schedule.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. It was an idea that seemed to have all the right ingredients for the tech-saturated world of 21 st century urban mobility.

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Using Technology to Better Support Conflict-Affected Families in Nigeria

3BL Media

It can cost more to deliver support from in-kind donations than to distribute cash due to the added cost of logistics and shipping. When we started this cash program in late 2014, it was all done manually — we printed tens of thousands of vouchers and traveled far distances to distribute them in person.

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Trane Technologies Delivers on Low-Carbon Steel Commitment With 1M+ Sustainable HVAC Systems

3BL Media

SWORDS, Ireland, November 20, 2023 /3BL/ - Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator, today announced a significant milestone for its industry-leading, sustainable climate solutions – with more than one million HVAC units with low-carbon steel shipped to homeowners and commercial customers across the U.S.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

The city sits among numerous refineries, oil wells and storage facilities, shipping ports and high-traffic roads, and some neighborhoods rank in the top 10th of CalEnviroScreen scores. In 2014, Quebec joined California’s market and several other states and countries have considered or adopted their own versions in recent years.)