GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

31, 2020, which it files annually with the U.S. million sellers with more than 85 million items available for sale, as of December 2020. In 2020, Etsy offset 404,439 metric tons of carbon in total and shipping alone was 303,218 metrics tons CO2 equivalent in 2020, according to the company.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Collectively, the work of 25 cities in the Climate Challenge will reduce CO2 emissions by 74 million metric tons from 2020 through 2030, compared to business as usual.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. The company closed out 2020 by investing $3 million and hiring 150 employees for its North American headquarters in Charlotte , North Carolina. in early 2020. in early 2020. Photo courtesy of BYD.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 5, 2025

As global investment in renewables marches upwards, new data from the IEA shows 2025 will be the first time since 2020 to see a year-on-year fall in fossil fuel investment. The post Global clean energy investment to reach $US2.2 trillion in 2025, twice that of fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2020, this began to change: Global fashion house PVH released new data on living wages across its factories and benchmarked it against the rest of its beleaguered industry to show a clean, comparable view in 2020. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And then 2020 happened. To our immense satisfaction, we saw little carnage within corporate sustainability departments during 2020 relative to previous economic downturns, when such functions were often among the first to be downsized or jettisoned. And the year ahead certainly would bring more of the same. Or so we predicted.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 6, 2024

The banks racked up $275 billion in loans and bond and equity underwriting to fossil fuel companies between 2020 and 2022, which represents 16.9% in 2020. Financing to the oil and gas industry fell in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic seriously depressed oil prices. of their total financing activity of $1.63

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

APRIL 23, 2025

They report that carbon dioxide and methane output from just 111 companies cost the world economy $28 trillion from 1991 to 2020, with the five top-emitting firms linked to $9 trillion of those losses. The researchers use the tool to provide the first causal estimate of economic losses due to extreme heat driven by emissions.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The policies are: mandate new products be made with 40% post-consumer recycled plastic; cap new plastic production at 2020 levels; invest significantly in plastic waste management -- such as landfills and waste collection services; and implement a small fee on plastic packaging.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That’s what a team of sustainability leaders and engineers from the Cummins Columbus Mid-Range Engine Plant (CMEP) discovered in 2020 when they first studied whether they could stop painting their engines. Material science has evolved since Cummins engines began leaving CMEP over thirty years ago.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Denmark has had legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions since 2020. Claus Egede Cornelius, program director at Roskilde Technical School, Vilvorde speaks about how electric mini excavators are being used to give Danish landscaping and construction students the skills they will need on future construction sites.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2025

Grants awarded to three Habitat for Humanity affiliate organizations Affordable housing investments from the company top $200,000 in Florida since 2020 Duke Energy Florida employees volunteer to build homes in Citrus and Orange counties ST. Since 2020, Duke Energy Florida and its foundation have contributed over $200,000 in the state.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The enterprise cohort prioritizes frontline, rural and Native Hawaiian social entrepreneurs addressing key leverage points identified in a 2020 Transforming Hawaii’s Food Systems Together mapping project.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . We were hoping [2020] would be a big year for forests and nature." (The

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 00:30. 2020 has become a reckoning for American culture through the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, the ominous storms in the east and the apocalyptic wildfires of the west. How to talk about racial justice in sustainability. Victoria Gilchrist.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional one that parched the American West from 2020--22. A study has found that evaporation accounted for 61% of the drought's severity, while reduced precipitation accounted for 39%.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2025

Young served as Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, and Ventures at Microsoft Corporation, a position he held since 2020. Prior to this role, Mr. Young was the CEO of McAfee, LLC from 2017 to 2020 and held senior leadership positions at Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, and VMware, Inc.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The company achieved its goal to meet 100% of its operational energy needs with renewable sources in 2020, and recently said that it anticipates adding 9.8 Meta has set a target to reach net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2030, and is one of the largest corporate buyers of renewable energy.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2025

Trained more than 7,000 Walgreen’s pharmacists and 12,000 beauty consultants since 2020 through a collaboration between Neutrogena® and the Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) on the importance of recommending sunscreen to consumers. from a 2020 base year, with goals of 25% by 2025 4 and 50% by 2030 4.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While Microsoft has set 2030 goals to become carbon negative and to reduce Scope 3 emissions by more than half compared to 2020, the company recently reported that Scope 3 emissions in 2023 were actually more than 30% higher than in 2020, driven by the construction of datacenters, including embodied carbon in building materials as well as hardware (..)

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:02. Google searches for ‘telecommuting’ in the UK, 2016-2020. A telework transition won't slash emissions unless we make car-free lifestyles viable. Hannah Budnitz. Even before the pandemic, the proportion of people working from home was slowly but steadily increasing. How travel patterns compare.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Thu, 10/15/2020 - 00:45. IKEA will buy back used furniture in stand against 'excessive consumption'. Cecilia Keating.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to the SEC’s order, while Invesco claimed in its marketing materials from 2020 to 2022 that between 70% – 94% of its parent company’s assets under management were “ESG integrated,” these amounts included a significant proportion of assets held in passive ETFs, that did not consider ESG factors in investment decisions.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2023

That was one of the central conclusions of Corporate Knights’ latest Earth Index * analysis, which found that G20 countries as a whole were not on track to meet their stated reduction targets from 2020 to 2021.

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Net Zero Climate Change 352

3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

The number of potential future hosts will evolve over time as new sports venues are built to serve the needs of local populations, and as National Olympic Committees (NOCs) take advantage of the flexibility offered by Olympic Agenda 2020 to propose events or sports outside the main host region.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s interim decision on glyphosate, released in 2020, claims that the chemical is not likely a carcinogen, this contradicts the 2015 World Health Organization analysis of published research that determined glyphosate is carcinogenic to animals and is a probable human carcinogen. . Regulatory and legal risks.

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3BL Media

MARCH 6, 2024

The Forest Positive Coalition was formed in 2020 by The CGF and brings together 22 of the world’s largest retailers and manufacturers, with a combined market value of around US $2 trillion, to take collective action to remove deforestation, forest conversion and degradation from key commodity supply chains.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 16, 2025

An award-winning legal educator and Marshall Scholar, and dean of the William & Mary Law School since 2020, Spencer is responsible for providing academic and executive leadership for the school, with a $40-million budget and $102-million endowment. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in transport management from Aston University.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or later. Research on climate policy is growing exponentially.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Founded in 2020, Stegra is developing its flagship green steel plant in Boden, Sweden, with the project including a giga-scale green hydrogen plant as an integrated part of the steel production facility.

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Zero Carbon Manufacturing Development 119

ESG Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

The company achieved its goal to meet 100% of its operational energy needs with renewable sources in 2020, and recently said that it anticipates adding 9.8 GW of renewable energy to local grids in the U.S. through its supported wind and solar projects by 2025.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This would represent a significant increase in climate finance for developing nations following a $100 billion by 2020 goal initially set in 2009, and extended to 2025 by the Paris Agreement in 2015. By 2020 annual climate finance mobilization had reached $83 billion, according to OECD estimates.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 5, 2021

In the waning months of 2020, the European Union took ambitious steps to address the more than 12 million tons of electronic waste the bloc produces annually. In August, the Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act of 2020 marked the first time in U.S. Right to repair is on the way. Mon, 04/05/2021 - 00:40.

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Waste Manufacturing Shipping 524

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A comprehensive study in 2020 exposed the harsh reality of Black representation on Canadian corporate boards: Out of 1,639 board positions across eight major Canadian cities, only 0.8% As of 2020, although women held about 21.5% were occupied by Black directors. of the population, Black people hold a mere 0.3% of corporate board seats.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

EarthKraft mailers, first introduced in a padded version in 2020, have proven a popular, sustainable solution for e-commerce shipments. The newly developed side- and bottom-gusseted versions of the recyclable unpadded mailer expand to hold larger-volume shipments.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

ng Cô Golf Course and Resort in Vietnam has developed a regenerative model with a 17-acre rice field that runs throughout the property that yielded a 28-ton crop in 2020. Particularly, Laguna L?ng In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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