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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

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The same week that PepsiCo announced its new ambition, the company’s foundation extended the terms of its 14-year-long relationship with the Inter-American Development Bank — with initiatives including a fund meant to promote the inclusion of women in regenerative, sustainable agricultural models in Latin America.

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

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government – the world’s largest purchaser – proposed that all federal contractors must set science-based targets and disclose their environmental impact through CDP, following in Norway’s recent footsteps. In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S.

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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit

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Probodha Acharya, chief sustainability officer at JSW Group, discussed how the company’s cement – with a carbon intensity of 300kg CO2 per tonne – makes it the lowest carbon cement company in the world. Business is getting on with the job of cutting emissions. C-aligned science-based targets.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Million Exec Moves Caterpillar Appoints George Moubayed as Chief Sustainability Officer Reports, Surveys & Studies Climate Tech Investment Falls in Tough Market, But Hits Record Share of VC and PE Funding: PwC 80 Million Kilometers of Grid Investment Needed by 2040 to Meet Global Climate Goals: IEA

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Amid that soul searching, one of the largest law partnerships in the world, Baker McKenzie, named its first chief sustainability officer, Alyssa Auberger. A partner in the firm’s Paris office, with more than 20 years’ tenure, Auberger previously led Baker McKenzie’s consumer goods and retail practice.