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The State of Green Business 2021

GreenBiz

The State of Green Business 2021. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11. The report, published in partnership with S&P Global Trucost, is a free download. Perhaps more surprising is the rise of "restorative" and "regenerative" among large companies in describing their ambitions to address human and planetary woes. Joel Makower.

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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

Mon, 02/15/2021 - 02:15. In addition to having a devasting effect on lives and livelihoods, COVID-19 has been the biggest global disruptor in recent memory. Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19. Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders.

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Cisco’s Sustainability 101: What Is the Circular Economy?

3BL Media

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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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

Tue, 03/30/2021 - 02:11. For years — decades, even — there has been a steady stream of visions and proposals aimed at, variously, reforming, rethinking, reimagining, reinventing, redefining and rebooting the operating system that drives capitalist economies. Can sustainability save capitalism? Joel Makower. This idea isn’t exactly new.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

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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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. 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. Chemicals & Toxics. Policy & Politics. Sponsored Article.

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Celebrating a Milestone: More Than 1,000 B Corps in Europe

B the Change

Now, we celebrate the milestone of over 1,000 companies committed to the B Corp vision of an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all: a thousandfold impact causing an unprecedented ripple effect in the European business landscape. But where are we heading from here?