Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

From the international stage with forced labour migrants building the stadium for 2022’s Qatar World Cup to the USA facing a child labour crisis, modern slavery is on the rise with the number of people affected growing to 50 million since 2018. It is a mirror held to power, reflecting who in any given society has it and who does not.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unprecedented wildfires raged across Australia and California, with the Australia fires releasing about three-quarters of the CO2 that the country’s industry emitted in 2018-19. This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, a weak global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses and hindered progress towards the Goals. Global road length is projected to increase from 3.0

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. The 2018 Three ? China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you broaden the aperture a bit more, you’ll see a much, much bigger opportunity: to finance the transition of the global economy to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. trillion annually.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Nearly 11,088 km² (4,281 mi²) of rainforest were deforested in this period– equivalent to an area the size of Jamaica –compared to 10,129 km² recorded in the same 12 months last year (2018-2019). Deforestation observed over the course of the year occurred mainly in the Amazonian state of Pará, which accounted for 46.8

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Sense and Sustainability

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Editor’s note : This article was first published on the Global Solutions blog. After meeting each other in Berlin at the 2018 Global Solutions Summit , Eduard a Zoghbi from Brazil and Nancy Hoque from the USA, were inspired to continue working together. “We It has been republished here with the author’s permission.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

Decarbonizing the global economy means lessening our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing dramatically our use of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower. That means better incentivizing end-users to consume their energy as efficiently as possible, minimizing unnecessary waste.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. That’s why biodiversity loss alone could cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the coming years, in addition to trillions more related to climate change.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

trillion industry by 2030 , a major force in the global economy. Fintech is projected to be a $1.5 Latin America and the Caribbean is a crucial focal point for the sector: While less than one in 10 people worldwide live in the region, around one in four fintechs are based there.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The Circularity Gap Report 2020 finds that the world’s economy is now only 8.6% in the two years since the annual report was first launched in 2018. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4%

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 27, 2021

GW of clean energy in 2020, up from 20.1GW in 2019 and 13.6GW in 2018, according to new research published by BloombergNEF (BNEF). The increase came despite a year devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic, a global recession and uncertainty about U.S. Corporations purchased a record of 23.7 energy policy ahead of the presidential election.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 9, 2022

Select report highlights from the company’s 2021 operations include: Made substantial progress toward achieving the company's goal to reduce air and water process emissions of fluorinated organic compounds by 99% or more by 2030, reaching a 40% global reduction since 2018. Generated 47.2%

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the midst of a weakened global economy and the war in Europe continuing to place strain on geopolitical relations, speculation as to whether COP27 could deliver measurable outcomes was a global concern. According to global energy think tank Ember, coal power rose by 9.0%

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

The main driver of this growth was market-based mechanisms, with auctioned wind capacity in 2019 surpassing 40 GW worldwide, accounting for two-thirds of total new capacity and doubling auctioned capacity compared to 2018. However, it is too soon to predict the extent of the virus’s impact on the wider global economy and energy markets.

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Sustainability Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A recent study by Microsoft and PwC UK demonstrates that using existing AI applications across agriculture, energy, transport and water could conservatively boost global GDP by 4% by 2030 — contributing up to US$5.2 Damien holds undergraduate qualifications in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Management.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, more stable SMEs and mid-caps outperformed total small and mid-cap ROCE by 75%. For public sector issuers in particular, gender equality focused bonds could be used to address structural causes and consequences of gender-based discrimination, which has the potential for a huge impact on global economies, as noted above.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Of particular importance are the regulations described below: Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting requirements Introduced in 2018, these mandate reporting by larger listed and unlisted companies/partnerships on energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. This could lead to faster innovation and a more competitive market.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2022

Over the last five years, the FTSE Environmental Opportunities All Share (EOAS) Index outperformed the FTSE Global All Cap by 5.9%. However, investment in the green economy must grow markedly faster in order to meet global climate targets, the report highlighted. Sectoral splits.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

With the global economy heavily reliant on ocean health, a sustainable future is paramount. To date, the ocean and its ecosystems have provided significant benefits to the global community, including climate regulation, coastal protection, food, employment, recreation and cultural well-being.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

In Taiwan, where I live and work, a large percentage of companies occupy an important position in the global economy as major suppliers of goods across the industrial spectrum. percent) in 2018. This is relatively higher than the proportion of sustainable investment assets to total AUM of investors in the U.S.

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

As the country experienced increasing social benefits from its embrace of what it refers to as “a free market economy with socialist aspects,” it began to take steps to amplify those benefits by also protecting and enhancing natural capital — a strategy that started in 2007, and has since become firmly embedded in Chinese society.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. The report says the annual investment of the private sector in nature-based solutions was $18 billion in 2018.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that global warming must not exceed 1.5°C Why Should Companies Pursue Science-Based Targets (SBT)?

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

China’s action could reshape an overlooked but critical segment of the global economy: the cross-border flows of scrap that underpin recyclng markets worldwide. Since July, Beijing has delayed the start date for the scrap restrictions to March 2018 and raised the maximum contamination level for plastics and other scrap from 0.3

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recognizing the very real threat to global economies and ecosystems posed by biodiversity loss, prominent global corporations are venturing beyond the atmosphere and into the biosphere. This is why global meat and dairy consumption has been one of the primary drivers of deforestation and its embedded biodiversity loss.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

The overall use of virgin plastic was reported as comparable to 2018 levels when the Commitment was first signed. trillion in the global economy, and reducing plastic waste is a crucial focus. Meanwhile, regulatory pressure and consumer demand for change have only increased. Consumer industries have a major part to play.

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B the Change

MARCH 16, 2023

Started in 2018 as a meeting place to discuss challenges related to employee engagement and satisfaction, the B Culture Group has grown to become a monthly call on topics like employee mental health, remote workers, and cultures of transparency.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Experts from B Lab’s Standards, Certification & Verification, and Global Partner Business Development teams share insights on the challenges and opportunities of bringing multinational corporations into the B Corp movement. B Corp Certification is for businesses of all sizes.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“As a result, decision-makers – including investors – lack clear, comprehensive and comparable data on the production, use and disposal of plastics across the global economy, as well as forward-looking indicators that tell them whether or not a company is likely to increase its dependence on plastics in the future.” .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is in many ways a starting point for the work that needs to intensify even more over the years and decades ahead of us.” The IMO’s previous 2018 target was to halve the shipping sector’s annual CO2 emissions by 2050.

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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

While countries, and indeed the global economy, have suffered in other ways, many are perhaps realising the benefits of reduced emissions. How can we ensure that as life and work slowly begins to return to something like normality we can keep working to reduce emissions and transition to a more sustainable and greener economy?

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2020

Global Health Security and Biodefense unit — responsible for pandemic preparedness – was dismantled by the current administration in May 2018. 1 (15 February 2018): 121–39. China’s Economy Suffers Historic Slump Due to Virus Shutdown’. Confronting the Crisis: Priorities for the Global Economy’, 9 April 2020.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 21, 2020

By Type of Energy Solar PV firms play an increasingly important role in the global economy. These companies added 94 gigawatts to the global solar energy capacity in 2017. million jobs to the global economy. Meanwhile, the global wind energy sector created 1.15 They also contributed 3.4 million jobs.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, only eight of them were passed. The findings also revealed an “enduring pattern of poor support” for climate resolutions regarding fossil fuel financing. All three companies have experienced rises in their stock prices following the latest upsurge of violence in Israel and Palestine.

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