ESG Today

JULY 15, 2025

The new draft standard marks the latest in a series of planned sector reporting standards by the GRI, following the publication of its first sector standard in 2021 covering the oil and gas sector , followed by standards for sectors including coal , agriculture, aquaculture and fishing and mining.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2025

Through our recently completed DMA and climate scenario analysis, we took steps to identify and assess potential climate-related risks and opportunities within our operations and supply chain over multiple time horizons. 2021: Scope 1 - 1.22 Operational Emissions (Thousand MT CO2e) (See chart above) 2019: Scope 1 - 1.36

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2025

PITTSBURGH, PA July 1, 2025 /3BL/ -- Wesco International (NYSE:WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, issued its annual sustainability report today.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Founded in 2021 by Thilo Hitz and Satya Kamal Raparthi, Daato enables its customers, which range from SMEs to listed companies, to streamline their sustainability compliance processes and manage their ESG obligations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This announcement that two of the UKs largest manufacturers are working together to create a low-carbon supply chain is an important step in the UKs transition to a circular economy.

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3BL Media

MAY 14, 2025

This program is designed to strengthen small businesses the backbone of the US economy and to help the country create a more resilient supply chain. Since 2021, Verizon has awarded $13.5 million in grants to support small businesses.

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3BL Media

JULY 15, 2025

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 15, 2025 /3BL/ – Wesco International (NYSE:WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, has been awarded on USA TODAY’s list of America’s Climate Leaders 2025. Annualized reduction in emission intensity: reductions shown between 2021 and 2023.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

Established in 2021, Spain-based H2SITE provides solutions to the hydrogen transport problem by converting hydrogen carriers with well-known supply chains and separating hydrogen gas blends into fuel cell purity hydrogen, offering reactors and separators for the conversion of different feedstocks into hydrogen.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

billion in hydrogen technologies between 2021 and 2026. Imperial Logistics Ltd Responsible logistics Imperial Logistics provides logistics and supply-chain management services across industries, mostly in Africa and Europe. By 2023, Bosch reported that 99% of its electricity requirements were met by green energy.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2025

As short-term climate targets, Henkel plans to reduce its absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 42 percent and its absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 30 percent by 2030 (compared to 2021). By the end of 2024, Henkel had reduced its scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 20 percent (compared to 2021).

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2025

percentage points between 2020 and 2021, growth slowed to 3.7 Room for Improvement: Disclosure remains limited across key workforce and supply chain metrics. Biodiversity Reporting Slows: While biodiversity-related disclosures rose 10.8 points between 2022 and 2023. Companiesheadquartered in North America lag global peers.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 16, 2025

Since 2021, Edwards has been CEO and executive director for the Virginia Port Authority, a driver of more than 565,000 jobs and $63 billion in gross domestic product for the State of Virginia on an annual basis.

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ESG Today

JUNE 27, 2025

Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Climatiq offers software infrastructure designed to embed carbon intelligence into decision-focused business tools. “Carbon intelligence” solutions provider Climatiq announced that it has raised €10 million (US$11.7

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Corporate Knights

MAY 5, 2025

Since 2021, it has used only lab-grown diamonds to avoid concerns about blood diamonds and inhumane labour practices and since 2024, exclusively gold and silver in recycled form. Six years later, Pandoras charms, which can be engraved and assembled to create personalized pieces, are just one element in its full palette of fine jewellery.

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ESG Today

JUNE 12, 2025

Launched in 2021, Samsara Eco uses enzymatic technology to recycle plastic, using enzymes to turn complex plastics back into their original chemical building blocks, enabling their re-use to produce new virgin-grade plastics without relying on fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2025

They are therefore taking things into their own hands, actively engaging with companies to eliminate modern slavery from supply chains. The number of people in modern slavery increased by 20% globally between 2016 and 2021, rising to an estimated 50 million people, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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3BL Media

JULY 9, 2025

Continued to scale human rights due diligence across global operations and supply chains, with ~96% of owned plants and ~98% of prioritized supplier sites audited in the last three years. 1 Trained more than 50,000 colleagues since launching Human Rights Policy in 2021.

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ESG Today

MARCH 12, 2025

Volvo and Northvolt had announced a joint venture in 2021 to establish a new gigafactory in Europe with a potential capacity of up to 50 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, with production scheduled to start in 2026. Major shareholders in the company included Volkwagen, with a 21% stake, and Goldman Sachs at 19%.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2025

The companys recent acquisitions include supply chain carbon management solutions provider RESET Carbon , human rights advisory organization Ergon Associates , and Hong Kong-based supply chain sustainability and risk management services solutions provider ELEVATE.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2025

Hoek has served on Cascale’s Board representing affiliate members since 2021, and contributes to multi-stakeholder initiatives including Better Cotton and the Policy Hub. With over a decade of experience, she has designed and implemented ESG strategies that boost operational efficiency and drive long-term business value.

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3BL Media

JULY 17, 2025

The first showcases data on Fairtrade’s West Africa Cocoa Program (WACP) , tracking impact from 2021 to the latest results from 2024. The Fairtrade Risk Map supports all actors in global supply chains – farmers, worker organizations, retailers, brands – in assessing their human rights and environmental risks.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

Adopted in 2021 and coming into effect for the 2024 financial year, the CSRD is the regulatory framework requiring firms to file social and environmental data and impact reports. Supply chain audits will be required once every five years rather than annually. Here are the main rollbacks proposed in the initial package.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2025

Climate Action Accelerator reports that the buildings sector (both construction and operation) accounted for 36% of global energy consumption in 2020 , which aligns with the 30–32% range commonly cited It is responsible for over 50% of raw material extraction worldwide (EU Analysis).

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ESG Today

JULY 14, 2025

New York-based Novata is a public benefit corporation founded in 2021 by S&P Global, the Ford Foundation, asset management firm Hamilton Lane, and social change-focused investment firm Omidyar Network to provide private markets investors with a solution for ESG measurement, data collection, benchmarking and reporting.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In order to bring the evaluation of its CO 2 emissions in the upstream supply chain to the next level, Henkel has launched a comprehensive engagement program for its worldwide suppliers called “Climate Connect”.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2025

Food spoilage is a widespread challenge for Nigerian farmers— over 90 million smallholder farmers report lost wages due to lack of cold storage at key points along the food supply chain. J-Palm | Liberia J-Palm Liberia (JPL) , a partner of the Foundation since 2021, will receive a $448,528 3-year, zero percent interest loan.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change. Not only could this affect the entire supply chain for a commodity type or region, but it could also increase migration from areas that are no longer arable.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The concept of green corridors was established in November 2021 as a critical way to scale new sustainable fuels and technologies. The 5% target is considered the threshold at which the infrastructure, supply chains, and technologies that support zero-emission fuels are mature enough to enable exponential growth.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In a recently released climate-focused update , Convergence reported just 32 adaptation blended finance transactions between 2021 and 2023, with a total value of US$3.5 billion and a median transaction size of US$32.5 In contrast, a total of six mitigation-focused blended finance deals exceeded US$1 billion in 2023 alone.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Founded in 2021 by Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm chaired by former U.S. Investors backing the strategy include California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) as institutional anchor, and Microsofts Climate Innovation Fund as corporate anchor.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

In 2024, the company lowered its emissions 19% compared to its 2021 baseline and pledged to implement 100% renewable-energy use for its own operations by the end of this year. billion in its infrastructure, and there is now additional focus on eliminating supply-chain-related emissions. Last year alone, the company invested 1.8

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2024

At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 145 countries – representing 90% of the worlds forests – signed a deforestation pledge, committing to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. At COP26, the UN also set a deadline for companies and financial institutions to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation by 2025.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Net Zero Now, founded in 2021, provides a platform that enables businesses to follow a sector-specific path to carbon net zero using tools to calculate, reduce and compensate for their GHG emissions. According to the company, it has helped collectively fund the planting of over 87 million trees, the avoidance of 3.4m

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

The Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative will bring together leading companies operating across the supply chains with the capability to develop, scale and commercialise novel polymers with significantly improved environmental credentials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Construction is being led by main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine, alongside a regional supply chain that includes Darlow Lloyd & Sons, Mii, Skelton Thomas, Wernick Buildings, Andrew Scott Ltd and Systems Group.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2025

The new carbon credits service is open to US-based businesses that are in Amazons supply chain, list products in its platform, or are participants in Amazons Climate Pledge initiative. The fund had given the SBTi US$18 million in grants as part of a three-year agreement which started in 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

Beyond reducing carbon emissions, the partnership aims to create opportunities for local supply chains and skills development in the growing heat networks sector, supporting Scotland’s just transition to a low-carbon economy.

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