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State, Federal Policymakers Meet With Major Employers To Explore Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Opportunity at Eaton Experience Center

3BL Media

Attendees emphasized how Pennsylvania can best leverage the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 to benefit the Commonwealth’s economy, bolster its role as an energy provider and manufacturing powerhouse, and reduce costs and pollution.

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Bush administration that took little interest in regulation or climate change. DuPont may have hired her in the hopes of boosting its troubled environmental image, but in her 12 years with the corporation, Fisher surprised many by bringing in changes that led to notable reductions in pollution.

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Burberry’s Net Zero Emissions Goals Approved by SBTi

ESG Today

SBTi is one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of addressing and limiting climate change. SBTi also tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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LEAD On a Clean Economy Brings Companies and Investors to Capitol Hill With United Call To Maximize Investment in America

3BL Media

The risks of climate change mark a threat to both public health and the economy,” said Shelly Schlenker, executive vice president/chief advocacy officer, CommonSpirit Health. It will take more than just one company, more than one industry to counter the worst effects of climate change – it is time for us all to act.

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Use Climate Experience for Fast TNFD Adoption, Investors Told

Chris Hall

Eleven of the TNFD’s 14 recommended disclosures replicate the categories used by the TCFD, with the addition of three new ones, including ones related to human rights policies and engagement activities, and the location of assets and activities, including upstream and downstream supply chains where possible.

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Preventing deforestation: How to incentivise smallholders and rural communities to protect forests

Tobias Webb

Cost savings are always pushed along the supply chain and ultimately are inflicted on farmers, who are price-takers, not price fixers. For farmers – demonstrate that lack of rains, for example, could be linked to lack of trees, and how that in turn impacts broader climate change. Leverage of supply chain incomes.