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Beijing's Shougang Park: How the Olympic Games Helped Turn a Steel Mill Into a Trendy Urban Area

3BL Media

In 2016, C40 – a global network of mayors taking urgent action to address climate change– recognised Shougang as an ambitious low-carbon project, accepting it into their Climate Positive Development Programme.

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Varma Racing Towards 2035 Carbon Neutrality

Chris Hall

As of year-end 2021, the asset owner has achieved its 2016 30% decarbonisation target for equity investments, according to Varma’s financial statement. Further, emissions across listed corporate bonds have decreased by 23% compared to 2016 levels, and real estate investment emissions have been cut by 57% compared to 2015 levels.

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Bush administration that took little interest in regulation or climate change. DuPont may have hired her in the hopes of boosting its troubled environmental image, but in her 12 years with the corporation, Fisher surprised many by bringing in changes that led to notable reductions in pollution.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016.

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What you should know about new Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

GreenBiz

Leases managed by the Interior hit a record 1 billion barrels in 2020 — a 23 percent increase from 2016 levels. To that point, while climate change has become a political tension point, Haaland has emerged as someone who can work effectively with colleagues across the aisle. Creating jobs with the Civilian Climate Corps.