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Nestlé Moves Away from Carbon Offsets to Focus on Emissions Reductions Across Brands

ESG Today

Global food and beverage company Nestlé will shift away from the use of offsets to achieve carbon neutral brands, focusing instead on actual emissions reductions in its operations and value chain, according to a company spokesperson, following media reports that the company was walking away from carbon neutral pledges for some brands.

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3 big trends headlining a tumultuous year in food

GreenBiz

dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? The rush for regenerative ag . Another disruptive company, Farmers Business Network, launched a service designed to help farmers earn a premium from regeneratively farmed grain. But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim?

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 It committed to delivering up to $1 billion in pro bono consulting work for social impact projects between 2015 and 2025. (So

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Announcing Climate Vault’s 2023 Carbon Champion Award Winners

3BL Media

Qlik: Recipient of the Carbon Champion Strategist award The Strategist award celebrates an organization that seeks to identify and analyze key issues, then leverage data-driven insights into effective ways to address them–all in order to help organizations, communities, and individuals mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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

Corporate Knights

Belem, situated at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, is facing an influx of 70,000 delegates attending an upcoming United Nations climate summit, COP 30, in 2025. A similar dynamic is taking shape for the climate community. The port city plans to triple hotel capacity and use boats and cruise ships to house delegates.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

GreenBiz

Regen Network , a market for landowners to sell ecosystem services, is based on the public Cosmos platform, which uses proof of stake. The top-level goal of the accord is for all of the world’s blockchains to be powered by 100 percent renewables by 2025. For instance, carbon offsets.