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Tech sector emissions and energy use growing with the rise of AI

Envirotec Magazine

Greening Digital Companies 2025 , produced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), tracks the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy use, and climate commitments of 200 leading digital companies as of 2023, the most recent year for which full data is available.

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Should ESG Investors Own Cryptocurrency?

3BL Media

Investors, for their part, should consider the nuances of individual digital currencies and weigh the pros and the cons in the context of their own sustainability goals. These issues are being hotly debated within the crypto community, as well as by policymakers, corporations and other entities around the world.

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Northwestern Mutual Donates $500,000 to Childhood Cancer Survivors and Siblings To Help Fund Higher Education

3BL Media

With this addition, nearly $2 million has been awarded to 262 scholars since the program was created in 2017. "A A childhood cancer diagnosis affects families in many ways, and for many there is a financial burden – from treatment and medication to travel and lodging," said Steve Radke, president of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.

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Global Battery Alliance Launches Greenhouse Gas Rulebook for Battery Passport

3BL Media

The Battery Passport will be a digital product passport for batteries, acting as a digital twin of the physical battery to collect and store data for tracking and tracing material flows. It will also encompass sustainability reporting against key performance indicators, including the battery carbon footprint.

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Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year

Envirotec Magazine

Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. 5] [link]. [6]

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

Sofidel dedicates particular and constant attention to the training of the new generations, especially at a time when the ongoing digital revolution, Industry 4.0 and the new needs for sustainability are profoundly innovating the paper sector, with repercussions on production, products, logistics and distribution. Goal Partnership.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation

We identified over 130 individuals pushing the boundaries of social impact, including program evaluators, econometricians, academic researchers, machine learning/AI specialists, statisticians, implementation science experts, meta-analysts, and more. The truth is, it’s very difficult to process and use the information.

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