Report Report: ESG, supply chains, net zero and EVs
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
A wrap-up of recent research on sustainable business and clean technology.
ARENA says industrial emissions key to climate gains from solar, EVs and batteries
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 25, 2023
ARENA boss says clean technologies like solar batteries and EVs and heat pumps are not truly green unless the whole upstream supply chain is also green. The post ARENA says industrial emissions key to climate gains from solar, EVs and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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EU eyes Australian wind investment as it locks in renewable capacity at home
Renew Economy
JULY 25, 2023
The regional bloc is focusing on protecting its supply chains for domestic clean technology manufacturing industries, but also has an eye on Australian projects. The post EU eyes Australian wind investment as it locks in renewable capacity at home appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Canada and the UK Announce New Critical Minerals Supply Chain Dialogue
Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 8, 2023
As Canada and the United Kingdom ramp up their transition to clean technology, the two nations signed the Critical Minerals Supply Chain Dialogue on Monday. The post Canada and the UK Announce New Critical Minerals Supply Chain Dialogue appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
DP World Endorses Green Shipping Corridor in Push for Sustainable Maritime Trade
3BL Media
DECEMBER 14, 2023
VANCOUVER, Canada, December 14, 2023 /3BL/ - DP World , a global leader in integrated supply chain solutions, has endorsed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at establishing an international green shipping corridor linking Canada’s West Coast with ports in Asia and the Middle East. Moller Maersk, and other critical entities.
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Ecocentricity Blog: Embracing Clean Technologies, Even If We Don't Have All of the Answers Yet
3BL Media
JUNE 1, 2022
It suggests that proponents of clean technologies like renewables and electric vehicles are being dishonest by ignoring or glossing over any downsides that come with them. Just because many clean technologies haven’t figured out how to optimize for the circular economy yet does not mean we shouldn’t promote them.
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U.S. Department of Energy Shares Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition
3BL Media
AUGUST 17, 2022
Key to achieving these goals is investing and building a secure and resilient domestic supply chain for the energy transition. How Is the US Strategizing to Secure the Supply Chain? Strategy 3: Invest and Support Formation of Diverse and Reliable Foreign Supply Chains to Meet Global Climate Ambitions.
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Canada Announces Over $80 Billion Clean Tech & Energy Investments to Compete with U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
ESG Today
MARCH 31, 2023
incentives will undermine Canada’s ability to attract the investments needed to establish Canada as a leader in the growing and highly competitive global clean economy.
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£4.5 billion boost for UK manufacturing includes clean energy fund
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Commenting on the Green Industries Growth Accelerator, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Dan McGrail said: “At a time when international competition for investment in clean technology manufacturing is fierce, the Chancellor is right to take a more proactive approach to stimulate green industrial growth.
Scania Signs Deal with SSAB for 100% Fossil-Free Steel Deliveries by 2030
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The new agreement follows Scania’s commitment last year to decarbonize its supply chain by 2030, with efforts focused its key production materials emissions sources, with batteries, steel, aluminum and cast iron accounting for approximately 80%. where Scania and SSAB are members, to reduce the carbon footprint in hard-to-abate sectors.
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Standard Chartered, DHL to Co-invest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
ESG Today
MARCH 19, 2024
GoGreen Plus aims to offer real emissions reductions through carbon “insetting,” enabling shippers to replace conventional fossil fuels with sustainable fuels or clean technologies, such as SAF.
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The integral role of every department in Australia's sustainable business revolution
Sustainability Matters
AUGUST 16, 2023
To meet the growing demand for sustainability, it’s not just about adopting clean technologies; it’s about embedding a culture of sustainability into every facet of an organisation. In Australia, examples abound of companies successfully integrating clean technologies. Operations teams sit at the heart of this transition.
DHL Launches Decarbonization Service for Road Transport
ESG Today
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Logistics and shipping giant Deutsche Post DHL Group announced today that it is expanding its supply chain emission reduction service, GoGreen Plus, to road transport through its overland freight transport solutions division, DHL Freight.
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DHL Enables Customers to Address Scope 3 Emissions for Shipping with Sustainable Aviation Fuel
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
GoGreen Plus aims to provide real emissions reductions through carbon “insetting,” enabling shippers to replace conventional fossil fuels with sustainable fuels or clean technologies, such as SAF. The new service will initially launch in the UK, and will become available to all DHL Express customers globally over the coming months.
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The sustainability sector's thoughts on a 'future made in Australia'
Sustainability Matters
APRIL 14, 2024
BZE is calling for a suite of measures, including investment national coordination, production credits and equity funding in strategic clean technologies to catalyse onshore manufacturing in the May Federal Budget.
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6 new finance solutions to drive energy transition in developing economies
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The Amazônia Sustainable Supply Chains Mechanism will leverage off-take agreements for forest-compatible products to provide upfront finance, technical assistance, and structural community resources that catalyze the bioeconomy and keeps forests standing in the Brazilian Amazon.
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DHL Enables US SMEs to Address Shipping Emissions by Investing in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
ESG Today
APRIL 24, 2023
GoGreen Plus aims to provide real emissions reductions through carbon “insetting,” enabling shippers to replace conventional fossil fuels with sustainable fuels or clean technologies, such as SAF. Greg Hewitt, CEO of DHL Express U.S.,
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EU Commission Unveils Plans to Scale Clean Tech Manufacturing: “The Race is On”
ESG Today
MARCH 16, 2023
The European Commission announced today a series of proposals aimed at ensuring its place in the race to scale up clean tech industrial capacity for the net zero energy transition, including the launch of the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), focused on the facilitation of clean technology industrial capabilities and capacity in Europe, and the European (..)
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Keysight CEO: Our Steadfast Commitment to Build A Better Planet
3BL Media
JUNE 22, 2022
In 2021, the world navigated a continued pandemic response, weather-related events, supply chain constraints, and other challenges. CSR remains a key value of the company and positive societal impact continues to be core to who we are.
Should philanthropic foundations empty their coffers to spend it all on climate now?
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Lourie says the target sectors include the electric vehicle supply chain, clean grids and hydrogen, as well as clean technologies such as heat pumps for space heating. Yet, as he notes, the transition won’t happen solely because emerging green technologies mature to the point of economic viability.
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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 11, 2024
This will be split between a number of “clean energy” sectors, with around £390m for electricity networks and offshore wind supply chains, and around £390m for CCUS and hydrogen. Crumbs of consolation were welcomed, such as the 25% boost to landfill tax. This brings the fund up to £1.1
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Climate was biggest winner in 2024 budget, but climate funding gap persists
Corporate Knights
APRIL 17, 2024
The federal government expects investments and tax credits for carbon capture, utilization and storage and clean technology to receive royal assent by June (six months after they were introduced in Parliament). on par with the higher end of clean-economy funding the U.S. billion EV supply chain tax credits through 2035 $1.1
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Stay On Top of Energy Transition With These Top 10 Podcasts
3BL Media
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist focused on innovation and transformative technology as it relates to corporate climate action. Together they host the weekly GreenBiz 350 podcast, where they explore the organizations and individuals driving clean technology and sustainable businesses. Redefining Energy.
Sustainable Innovations Company Changes the Way the World Cleans for People, Planet, and Profit
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
DESCRIPTION: September 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ - A Canadian-based sustainable innovations company is Changing the Way the World Cleans with technologies that prioritize human health, environmental sustainability, and cost-efficiency in commercial cleaning. The Next Generation.
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Abrupt end to Canada’s green retrofits program leaves industry in chaos
Corporate Knights
MARCH 5, 2024
With more than 165,000 grants already issued, and the rest of the audits and retrofits still in the queue, Greener Homes “has supported over 75,000 jobs in the retrofit economy, ranging from jobs in construction, made-in-Canada manufacturing, home energy auditing, sales, clean technology, and financial services,” the department said in a release.
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Hydrogen-in-transport innovators celebrate in latest round of £8 million competition
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2023
The competition invited ideas on how to overcome some of the challenges of scaling-up hydrogen technology, such as refuelling on a large scale, and making the region’s supply chain greener with hydrogen-fuelled vans and HGVs.
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The sins of omission: A cool reception for the King’s speech
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, Chief Executive of the REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) said: “The Government should be using the limited parliamentary timetable we have left to strengthen energy security and net zero in the UK. Instead, it is back-pedalling on measures to reach our own legally binding targets.
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India as G20 president can help business go faster to cut emissions
We Mean Business Coalition
MARCH 21, 2023
It also builds business operations and supply chains that are more resilient in the face of extreme weather events. In India alone, 116 companies including Infosys, Dalmia Cement and the entire Mahindra Group are committed to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions across their value chains.
Green light for path to UK’s first ‘electric motorway’
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2021
Because of the limits of existing technology, the plan says “removing [road freight] emissions requires the development and deployment of clean technologies.”.
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Member-Clients’ Global Leadership is Recognized
Sustainable Round Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Assessors examine each company’s activities including investment in clean technologies, earnings from products aligned with the Corporate Knights Clean Taxonomy, corporate commitments such as Science-Based Targets (SBTs), pay structures, board diversity, and tax payments. Julia graduated with a B.S.
Top 5 tips to bring a renewable energy equipment prototype to market
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 4, 2021
The reality is that this industry is in a race to compete with a depleting supply of fossil fuels, and energy OEMs are creating more groundbreaking technologies today than ever before. Incubators, universities, entrepreneurs, private investors, and even corporate giants are toiling night and day to create tomorrow’s clean technology.
Chemours Announces Joint Venture Agreement With BWT to Enable the Capacity and Innovation Required by the Transportation Fuel Cell Market
3BL Media
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), European Green Deal, and other future-oriented policy frameworks on the EU and member state level, will drive significant changes to the energy, transportation, and manufacturing industries as well as spark innovation in clean technology with billions of dollars in new climate and energy spending.
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Cleaning Innovations Company Demonstrates How Cost-Savings and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Tersano is a Canadian-based, privately held company that manufactures sustainable cleaning technologies. Through their innovative products and solution, they make cleaning safer for people and the planet, while helping businesses significantly reduce costs, time, and labor every step of the way. SOURCE: Tersano.
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Post-COP28, key industry conferences paint a mixed picture on energy transition
We Mean Business Coalition
APRIL 4, 2024
GRA has identified key barriers that may impede this 2030 goal: lengthy permitting processes, insecure supply chains, lack of grid infrastructure and lack of finance. that are building this future.
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Overshoot is Here
Chris Hall
MARCH 31, 2023
This means that the entirely predictable and necessary Ratchet-driven call post-2025 for increased policy and significant uplift of global investment into clean energy and clean technology systems must be heeded with a tagline of ’we really mean it this time’.
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Decoding the G7: 5 takeaways for business on climate and energy
We Mean Business Coalition
MAY 5, 2023
Equally important will be ensuring that the G7’s international public finance is aligned with a global clean energy transition. Supporting clean development across the world will not only support leveraging increased private finance but will also help companies decarbonize global supply chains.
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U.S. Invests $254 Million in Industrial Decarbonization Projects, Technologies
ESG Today
JANUARY 29, 2024
The administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) include allocations of nearly $500 billion to climate-focused investments in areas including carbon-free energy, manufacturing and clean technologies. industrial manufacturing emissions, and are essential to decarbonizing supply chains.
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Industrial decarbonization picks up steam
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2021
Apple, for example, last year announced a carbon-neutrality target throughout its entire supply chain. While many consumer-facing brands want renewable options, most are price-sensitive and unwilling to pay a premium for these cleaner technologies, especially during a time of rock-bottom natural gas prices.
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Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2021
"Our goal is before a server even shows up in a Microsoft data center, we have already determined five years from now each channel that every single part will take, including the screws that hold everything together," said Paul Clark, general manager of Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability.
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'Mostly a win' for clean energy, Budget 2023 fails to end fossil fuel subsidies
Corporate Knights
MARCH 29, 2023
For companies that fall short of those markers, the 15% clean technology and hydrogen tax credits will fall to 5%. But the budget also casts the global shift toward energy transition technologies as a challenge. Key elements of the $491-billion budget include : • An 11-year, $25.7-billion
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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 17, 2023
We Mean Business Coalition
MARCH 17, 2023
And this year’s Global Supply Chains Report from CDP has shown which companies took the necessary action on supply chain emissions in 2022. The report notes that engagement from members of CDP’s Supply Chain program is driving action globally. million homes.
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Major U.S. Companies Call for Swift Passage of Ambitious Federal Climate Policy to Build an Affordable, Competitive Clean Economy
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Achieving an equitable clean energy future relies on the collaboration between the American auto industry and the U.S. R&D, manufacturing and supply chains. We understand the urgency to make climate investments that will accelerate clean technologies and build infrastructure capable of decarbonizing the U.S.
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Firms selected to pitch at climate tech innovation event
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 14, 2023
Sylvie Russell, COO of Cambridge Cleantech, said: “There has never been a more critical need for investment to help accelerate innovation in clean technology. The UK’s energy, water, transportation, circular economy and built environment sectors have a combined value of £1.3 trillion a year, representing 20% of GDP.
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How a rare earth facility in Canada wants to clean up the dirty side of green energy
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 30, 2024
Typically, these steps are distinct way stations in a supply chain, and that anodyne fact has made the rare earth sector uniquely vulnerable to competition from China. Yet large-scale investments in the midstream part of the REE supply chain have not materialized, so far. The reason?
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