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Burberry Steps Out With New £300m Sustainability Loan

3BL Media

Burberry has strengthened its resolve to be climate positive by 2040 by refinancing a credit facility to a £300m Sustainability Linked Loan. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C SOURCE: Acre. DESCRIPTION: by Liam Goldsworthy.

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Five Ways in Which Beijing 2022 Will Become Carbon Neutral

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As of June 2021, the 2016-2021 GHG emissions of the Beijing 2022 Games were calculated to be 489,000 t-CO2e. In response to the growing climate crisis, the IOC is constantly increasing its ambition to address it. The IOC itself will halve its own footprint by 2030 and create an Olympic Forest to become climate positive in 2024.

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

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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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Give Something Greater: 12 Gifts for Self-Care

B the Change

As an Indigenous-owned, digitally native Canadian cosmetics company, Cheekbone Beauty was established in 2016 with sustainability at the forefront. Climate+ Drinkware Collection MiiR | United States Small Business Price: From $24.95 with you in these Climate Positive products from MiiR. USD Take your favorite beverage?—?coffee,

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Operationally, we’re focused on transforming into a circular business, becoming climate-positive and regenerating resources while growing our business,” Crittendon says. Ikea’s sustainability is wide-ranging. Being a bigwig in finance “never entered my mind,” she says, but in 2021 she was named senior vice-president and CSO.

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Cultural Changemakers Have a Powerful Role in Promoting Climate Action

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On the live entertainment front, The Lumineers — a Grammy-nominated band co-founded by vocalist Wesley Schultz — are among those leading the way in this space, headlining one of the world’s first “climate-positive” tours in 2020.

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