3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. SFDR has had more of an impact than any other regulatory-driven change asset managers have seen in recent years. By Ian Povey-Hall.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Follow the money The best way to tell the future of a company is to follow the money by looking at the investments it’s making today. Enel (with $158 billion) and Spanish utility Iberdrola ($144 billion) led the way, directing 85% of their 2021 investments toward renewable low-carbon electricity systems. Whereas just 2.7%

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. The size of the climate challenge and how science is tracking the worst-case scenario means we cannot wait years for change to happen. BlackRock is so large and systemically important that in March the U.S.

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3BL Media

MARCH 6, 2024

Consistent, comparable information on physical and transition climate-related risks is vital to decision-making around strategy and investments,” said Ceres President and CEO Mindy Lubber. More recently, the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets released an analysis, Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The COVID crisis has exposed our interdependencies and the insufficient preparation of our urban systems for coping with shocks. Now, with climate change, come scorching hot temperatures during the summer months which bring additional challenges to healthcare systems that already operate under great pressure due to the pandemic.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Pursuing regulatory compliance and competitive ESG performance can involve significant investments of time and, yes, money — especially for a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), Crawford told TriplePundit. Even so, in expanding its ESG initiatives, Sustana is not only able to avoid business risks, but also engage top-notch customers.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Business as usual for the luxury industry is over. As luxury fashion brands adapt and survive in the "new normal," they can drive a renewed vision of the luxury business that demonstrates how to decouple volume growth from value growth. And brands are hurrying to transfer business to online outlets. Elisa Niemtzow.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

A Hong Kong paper found that of over 7,000 COVID-19 cases, only one outbreak was contracted outdoors. Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. . Jesse Klein.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rather than seeing that as an excuse to cut programs that might seem ancillary to the bottom line, like those related to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, many tech leaders see ESG as critical as ever to their business in 2023. The company reported that $3.5

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Financial institutions are powerful in fueling these changes, and many already are in that process. There are challenges in terms of getting the right price, but I think that it’s a very powerful tool in mitigating climate change. It is definitely something I will keep my eyes on. Vanshaj Verma.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. One major challenge for sustainable food systems is that there’s waste along every part of the food supply chain.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The world’s electricity systems could dump an extra 58 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere between 2030 and 2050 unless countries double their grid renewal investments to more than US$600 billion per year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concludes in a special report issued this week. Straining the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. We must change our relationship with food.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Across all industrial sectors, new business guides for procurement are needed in order to get a better handle on decarbonization priorities, Valanko said in late May during a session at VERGE Electrify. As recently as two years ago, this was not the case. Charting a course to 2050. What solutions do you have already? The policy levers.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Ingram is the chair of investment advisory company Wilshire’s ESG and Diversity Committee. billion in assets under management and $168 billion in assets under advisement, recruited Ingram in 2017 as part of an effort to expand its ESG and socially responsible investing capabilities. Wilshire, which has more than $8.6

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The money," in this case, is the sprawling and spiraling world of sustainable finance. In 2019, when we first started holding our GreenFin Summits — the precursor events to GreenFin 21 — the focus was relatively narrow: the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in the investing world. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has disastrous human and economic consequences, revealing our system’s exposure to a variety of risks. The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

“I saw the importance of this kind of community investment when, 18 years ago, Anthony and I founded then ran City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe , which incorporated a food science education laboratory that has been held up as a national model,” he continued. Now we want to put this kind of social impact investment to work at a much larger scale.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

Most landlords are likely to husband cash rather than invest in their assets right now because they aren’t sure how functional the capital markets will be for real estate in the near future or how stable their tenants are.". But now that case sounds tone-deaf to the market. operating partner at Generate Capital, via email.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: We convened experts from our investment teams and our KKR Sustainability Expert Advisory Council (SEAC) to cover several important aspects of investing in the energy transition, energy security, and climate action for the third installment in our “Investing in Sustainability” series.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'. As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 01:30.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Acre's Marie Cloherty, Director of Sustainable Business unpacks the myriad benefits Chief Sustainability Officers can bring to large businesses in her latest article for Business Green. DESCRIPTION: Original Source: Business Green | Published: 5th September 2022. And if not, how do we change that?

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Internet is littered with articles about Industry 4.0. For example, with digital twins and modular flexible systems. is interoperability for mobile cyber-physical systems. The details that are often unexplained in such articles, is what is actually needed from the network. One of the main features of Industry 4.0

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James Militzer

APRIL 30, 2024

In the wake of growing global solar home systems uptake, Productive Use of Energy (PUE) appliances — i.e., energy-powered and income-generating devices — have received increased attention due to their multiple socio-economic benefits. The third challenge will be discussed in the second article of this series.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2022

The decisions we make and the actions we take in the next 10 years will determine whether our life support systems break down or break through. In this short article, I summarise some of the most important lessons from the book. Thriving is a way to make systems thinking more accessible and applicable. It aims to.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As a result, EV charging companies have a major business opportunity – with a right selection and implementation of cellular IoT enabled use cases. A critical element in the rapid rise of EVs are new business models emerging, from car-as-a-service to shared mobility services. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 11:30. Type of Content.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

Despite how crucial water is to business, and to life itself, the risks that come with not having enough of it have often been overlooked by investors, who’ve tended to focus more on carbon. That is changing, though, as severe, long-term droughts in important agricultural hubs such as California give investors mounting reasons to worry.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2023

At Ericsson we foresee many new use cases for future wireless networks, including advanced highly-demanding digital services such as immersive communication and massive digital twinning, but also use cases that can help us overcome the digital divide and enable reduced resource consumption.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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3BL Media

MARCH 20, 2024

As the world grapples with existential threats like climate change and biodiversity loss, the spotlight is increasingly turning toward the role of corporations in shaping our sustainable future. In this article, we'll delve into why the TNFD framework is indispensable for corporate sustainability. What is the TNFD? TNFD and SBTN.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The reaction is utterly understandable when you can taste climate change in the back of your throat. Climate youth won a landmark court case in Montana that could have implications for Canada. Global renewable energy investment is set to hit $1.7 The solutions are gaining ground , but not yet quickly or widely enough.

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

Sustainability Professionals Share Their Most Pressing Questions, Challenges, and Topics By Natasha Boyd What issues are top priority for sustainability professionals navigating the current business environment? To answer this question, we surveyed members of the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS). Climate Change 4.

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B the Change

AUGUST 14, 2022

How Companies Can Best Address Climate Change Through Measurements and Accountability Climate change is already a problem, as anyone who follows the headlines can see. all follow from changing weather patterns. In the battle against climate change , companies are important actors. can reward the wrong behaviors.

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3BL Media

APRIL 1, 2022

Factor in the shift to remote work and the challenges of the past two years, and it can feel like connecting with colleagues is a thing of the past — leaving many business leaders looking for new ways to bring everyone together. DESCRIPTION: Employee interaction and engagement can be difficult enough when everyone works in the same building.

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James Militzer

JULY 5, 2023

Efforts to decarbonize the world’s energy systems are accelerating, pushing many industries and companies to innovate to survive. But while this global energy transition brings profound change — and with it new challenges — it also heralds tremendous opportunity in new areas. focused on the business-to-business market.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Under the traditional capitalist model, financial performance for shareholders has been the primary measure of the success of a business. The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

The answers are varied and disparate — and, in some cases, even contradictory. Follow the counterintuitive : Crises remind us that systems are complex, interconnected and difficult to "fix," and yet there are leverage points which have disproportionate ability to move the system in the right direction. Pull Quote.

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