GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Fifth Wall, the biggest venture fund dedicated to funding disruptive ideas in real estate and retail, this week revealed that it has become a Certified B Corporation (B Corp) — a move that requires it to embed concerns about equity, inclusiveness and sustainability into its portfolio. Right now, there are an estimated 3,300 Certified B Corps.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What I learned about water in 2020. What was once anticipated to be a multiyear transformation occurred rapidly, with both the utility and industrial sectors scrambling to identify digital technologies and integrate them into their operations to adjust to remote workforces. What we need is a skunkworks mindset and strategy.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Machines today are more powerful, precise and easy to use than they have ever been, making them more efficient, productive and sustainable. Sustainability is top of mind for many businesses, and for agriculture and construction, it is an opportunity to transform how we manage our natural resources to grow food and build communities.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

PwC estimates funding for climate-tech startups reached more than $16 billion by 2019, a 3,750 percent increase from just six years earlier — a growth rate roughly three times the amount poured into artificial intelligence ventures during a similar time frame. Sponsored Article. It's not just about solar panels and wind turbines.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

Back in 2016, we published an article in Reuters that highlighted the low correlation between MSCI and Sustainalytics ratings. For the S&P 1200 (a well-studied group of companies), there was only a 32% correlation between the ESG ratings from these two major data sources. Sustainalytics VS MSCI in 2016.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey. The money," in this case, is the sprawling and spiraling world of sustainable finance. There is a lack of consistency among various ratings methodologies, a cacophony of ESG standards and frameworks, and a lack of clarity about which data is, in fact, material. "So,

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Now that the business group’s statement has been stress-tested well beyond anyone’s expectations, it’s a good time to take a look at what difference it has made in its first 12 months. Not exactly radical statements, given that these commitments reflect much of the corporate sustainability agenda that has been decades in the making.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Best-of-Breed' Sustainability Software May Be The Worst Solution. There is no easy road to meeting corporate sustainability goals. Is best-of-breed sustainability software holding your company back? What [companies] need is real, actual data from their operations and supply chains,” he continued. “To Type of Content.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

and Benefit Business and the Planet This article by Dr. Hao Liang is part of “The Basics” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics. What is this approach that aims to make money and address social and environmental issues at the same time?

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In his recent Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Jason Saul notes that "To be relevant, the ESG field must modernize the way it measures S factors. There’s no need to wait for rating agencies to catch up or standard-setters to adapt. Read the full article here. Rating agency representatives. Academic researchers.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

What a waste of time and money. . In the past, before COVID, we’d say, ‘Oh, if you do these improvements you can increase your rental rates and you can have higher-quality tenants,’" said Marta Schantz, senior vice president of the Urban Land Institute’s Greenprint, an alliance of real estate owners and investors. You’d think. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Especially with the price volatility of sectors like food and grocery, where switching brands is an easy, in-the-moment choice, companies can’t afford to overlook the importance of sustainability and social responsibility in consumers’ minds if they want to preserve and build brand loyalty. “In the third highest in the snacking subcategory.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As a business leader who is vested in the financial and regulatory implications of ESG going forward, you might find yourself wondering what’s driving the criticism, and what it all might mean to the future of corporate sustainability. What matters is the consequence. in a recent article.

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James Militzer

APRIL 30, 2024

The term “productive use” refers to technologies resulting in the direct production of goods or provision of services. In this article, we will focus on the two PUE appliances with the most mature and promising markets, solar water pumps (SWPs) and solar refrigerators.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In doing so, there is a hope that 6G can significantly aid in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This article answers some of the most common questions surrounding 6G and provides more insight into the vision for 6G and how it will achieve these critical goals. What is 6G? What do we need to achieve 6G?

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Environmental Protection Agency reported that the recycling rate for PET bottles and jars was close to 30 percent in 2019.) Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. What’s more, Gore observes that we’re still emitting 152 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In the article, Quiet Quitting is a Fake Trend , in The Atlantic, the author states “What people are now calling ‘quiet quitting’ was, in previous decades, simply known as ‘having a job’.”. Whether it seems cynical or not, the truth is that the concept has caught on, so it is important to examine what it really means.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

If there is good news, it is this: The pandemic has shown that when our backs are against the wall, incredible things are possible. What scientists observed during 2020 should worry us all. What scientists observed during 2020 should worry us all. In the Arctic, temperatures are rising at twice the global rate.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What will it take to achieve such massive shifts? As we wind down the fund and move our food system investments into other RSF portfolios, we’re sharing what we’ve learned in hopes of advancing efforts to build a regenerative food system. Most small farms in the U.S. aren’t profitable ; on average they earn only 17.4

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B the Change

AUGUST 14, 2022

Up to one third of all investments in the United States now factor in sustainability, including corporate carbon performance. Up to one third of all investments in the United States now factor in sustainability, including corporate carbon performance. This article describes the current state of corporate carbon reporting?—?and

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The IRMA standard is a chance to put mining onto a new path of sustainability and accountability. As part of the audit disclosed this week, Carrizal was rated quantitatively with a percentage on each of IRMA’s 26 sections with over 400 requirements. Microsoft, Tiffany help carve out new responsible mining standard. Jesse Klein.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

If we’re going to turn the tide, we desperately need to close the gap between good intentions and measurable actions. If just about everyone agrees on the need for a healthy and sustainable planet, why are we still struggling to make substantive progress? The good news is we’re already seeing movement in this direction.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all,” the IPCC adds. Deep, rapid, and sustained mitigation and accelerated implementation of adaptation actions in this decade would reduce projected losses and damages for humans and ecosystems,” the report says.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With more attention and support from the larger climate community, however, utilities are finding available technologies and strategies to design sustainability and resilience into their operations. What utilities can do. A more sustainable project doesn’t mean more costly,” Schlaman said. Further, in the U.S.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2022

Regulators, and in particular the EU, have increased the level of disclosure as regards sustainable investing through the SFDR/Taxonomy/NFDR/CSRD etc. Indeed, one aim of regulators is to remove this short-term thinking by fund managers and get them to invest sustainably with an eye on the long-term. Fiduciary duties.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Based on the results, they propose the creation of a national carbon credit fund to support sustainable waste management initiatives. However, the rate of MSW reuse is still very low in Brazil (2.2%). Harmonia and Ibertioga have very high rates of waste reuse (56% and 67% respectively). “That would correspond to between 4.9

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

After all, the taxonomy is designed to drive capital to renewable sources of energy and other sustainable economic activities, as opposed to those which merely help in the transition from fossil fuels to greener alternatives. Watered down policy. Design flaw.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Tapping the Power of Imagination, Emotion, and Meaning to Build a Sustainable Future By Maya Fischhoff and Theo Moers Maybe you love literature, music, or the visual arts. Those passions might seem far from work on business sustainability. can actually be powerful tools in advancing sustainable development. But the arts?—?everything

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

Investment in system change is the fast track to sustainability and profit, according to former MSCI ESG research head Frank Dixon. Frank Dixon wants you to help silence the motors that are propelling humanity into a conflict with nature which it can only lose. It sounds a big ask.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In other words, rather than education producing good jobs, it was the emergence of “good” jobs, that require certain skills, which incentivized parents to invest in their children’s education. For example, an expansion of tertiary education in Tunisia led to nearly 70 percent unemployment rates among university graduates in 2013.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

In this article we’ll look at some of the trends and insights we discussed across our global environment, health, safety and sustainability consultants as we have been integrating ESG into all of our practices for global clients. This wave of ESG is not slowing down but gaining momentum. Megatrends Leading to Increased ESG Pressure.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 15, 2023

Government, media, corporations, academic institutions, and nonprofits have all made large, though insufficient, commitments to address alarming rates of mental health distress and deaths of despair like drug overdoses and suicides. While this process takes time, we believe that there is power in simply taking a step forward.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Research and data provider MSCI’s latest ‘ Women on Boards ’ report highlighted that woman held over 25% of board seats at global companies listed on the MSCI ACWI index as of October 2023, but that the rate of growth had slowed to 1.3%, compared to 1.9% In comparison, Japan logged just a 5.6%

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 26, 2022

Given CEO Becky Willan tells investors what to look for when assessing a company’s commitment to purpose. Organisations that contribute positively to a sustainable and inclusive future are simultaneously driving their own success. Some questions feel more instinctive, like what governance structures are in place? Sustainability.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The top 25 most sustainable fleets. A global company that wants to deliver goods to residents in cities such as London, Paris, Madrid and soon Santa Monica , California, will need zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) fleets or it will lose business. Katie Fehrenbacher. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

B Lab’s Insights team looks to new research and data from the SDG Action Manager to understand what is holding companies back, and how they can evolve to truly support the 2030 Agenda. That means talk of contributions to the SDGs shouldn’t just focus on what a company is already doing?—?but What is holding business back?

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