Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” The voluntary agreements bring together Governments, businesses, local authorities, academics, NGOs, industry groups and citizens to take collaborative action, says WRAP. They address how the food and drink, plastics and textiles we use are produced and sold through to their reuse, remanufacture and recycling. .”

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For years, the lack of consensus on the key principles defining an “SDG-aligned” or “sustainable” business has created confusion and enabled greenwashing. However, many existing frameworks, practices, and reporting standards are not fit to purpose.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

trillion in 2021. A 2022 PwC report noted that investors globally are expected to increase their ESG-related assets under management across mandates, mutual funds and private markets to US$33.9 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic. The winners of the competition will receive cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $3,000.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Public procurement amounted to approximately £379 billion from 2021-2022 which demonstrates the significant contribution public procurement can make to achieving social value. UK-based online delivery firm Deliveroo failed to recover from disastrous IPO in June 2021 as investors shunned shares over governance and labour concerns.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Rickard Nilsson, Director of Strategy and Growth at Esgaia, highlights recent academic insights into the effectiveness of ESG engagement. Dimson, Karakas & Li (2015) , Barko, Cremers & Renneboog (2021) , and Bauer, Terwall & Tissen (2022) all found positive market reactions to ESG engagements in their samples.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Nonetheless, a cottage industry of academics has toiled away (sometimes in partnership with asset management firms) developing and testing theories such as creating shared value, circularity, and ESG investing. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It forecasted that 19 countries in the region would suffer worsening public finances over 2021-23, versus the period prior to the outbreak of the pandemic. Global sustainable bond issuance surged in 2021, with data providers estimating total volumes just above or below US$1 trillion; green bonds accounted for roughly half.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Then there is the unarguable fact that energy companies took a beating during 2020 and 2021 as coronavirus-related lockdowns paralysed economic activity across the developed world. Academic research published this week found that decarbonisation scenarios developed by oil majors are inconsistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

of its revenue on buying offsets in 2020 to compensate as much as 24% of its reported emissions, while Google spent about 0.02% of its revenue in 2021 to offset 18% of its emissions. The lack of transparency in VCMs has driven debate, particularly among academics, on the viability of carbon offsets to effectively drive climate action.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Earlier, we talked about the climate disruptions that rocked the United States in 2021. 2021, October 12). 2021, September 14). I have active hope that my home will be here tomorrow.”. Hope is an active choice for them, too. But the reality is, here in the US, we’re relatively sheltered from the climate disruption. Video file].

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In May more than 85 investment firms, academic organisations, and environmental groups from across the world including Environmental Defence, which represent nearly three million members, sent a letter to the Canadian administration demanding it “step up and pass policies that align the financial sector with climate action”.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. It’s fascinating to see the mining industry trying to capitalize on these disasters to justify even more greenwashed destructive projects,” he says.

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