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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Global Economy Net Zero Sustainability Professional Regenerative 544

3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The 2023 edition of the Circularity Gap Report , an annual study of circularity adoption worldwide by Circle Economy, states that the global economy increasingly relies on materials from virgin sources. The authors estimate that the global economy is only about 7.2% circular, down from 9.1% In that same year, 4.9

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Waste Global Economy Manufacturing Regenerative 147

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. A regenerative thermal oxidizer unit in China. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Chemicals & Toxics. Policy & Politics. Sponsored Article.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. In fact, the Arctic is warming at two times the global average. In 2020, the Arctic as a whole had its warmest year on record since data collection began in 1979. trillion in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

The report seems to find that annual investments in nature-based solutions will have to triple by 2030 and increase four-fold by 2050 from the current investments of $133 billion (using 2020 as base year). Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

The world is in the midst of a difficult transition, moving from a degenerative “death economy” to a regenerative “life economy.” The death economy is an economic system based on maximizing short-term profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs. did in three decades. Photo courtesy of GovernmentZA.

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