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Sustainable Apparel Coalition To Host Manufacturer Forum in Bangladesh

3BL Media

The events bring together manufacturers – who are on the front lines of critical action – with business leaders and stakeholders to discuss the future of sustainability, supply chain compliance, verification, policy alignment, and more.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. Tesla’s Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern (Published 4.22.2022) In its 2020 impact report , Tesla said, “None of our scrapped lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) go to landfills and 100% are recycled.”

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

3BL Media

Besides an economic boon, it has become imperative that the technologies of tomorrow deliver positive environmental and social change, and 6G is foundational to this vision. As climate change brings rising temperatures and extreme weather, global citizens are demanding urgent action. 6G’s environmental sustainability use cases.

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Global Commons Stewardship Index contrasts how countries impact the environment at home and abroad

Sustainable Development Network

The Index aims to inform actions to achieve major international agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the Con­vention on Biological Diversity. This Index is the successor to the Pilot GCS Index , which was released at the 2020 Tokyo Forum.

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The reasons behind lithium-ion batteries’ rapid cost decline

Envirotec Magazine

We looked at academic articles, industry and government reports, press releases, and specification sheets. The study took advantage of an analytical approach that Trancik and her team initially developed to analyze the similarly precipitous drop in costs of silicon solar panels over the last few decades.

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Fixing the S in ESG

Stanford Social Innovation

According to CNBC , most money managers who use ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors in their investment analysis have focused on the E, or climate change, as their leading criteria for their decisions. What risks come with the safety implications of a product or the politics of a company’s supply chain?

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Solutions to the world's biggest problems, including climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, are studied in research laboratories across the globe. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 Elsa Wenzel.

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